Zoe Leigh Hopkins is a Canadian Heiltsuk/Mohawk writer and film director who began her career in acting in 1991 and later pursued filmmaking.
The daughter of journalist Brian Maracle,[1] Hopkins was born in British Columbia, in the Heiltsuk fishing village.
She then went on to work as an independent filmmaker directing her first short film Prayer for a Good Day (2004) starring; Christina Bomberry, Taysha Fuller and Delmor Jacobs, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
In both instances of the program Zoe Leigh Hopkins has been an active member and participant.
[5] In 2017 Hopkins won the Audience Choice award at imagineNATIVE for Kayak to Klemtu.