Carmen Thompson

Screenwriter

Vancouver, Canada

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About Carmen

Carmen Thompson (Diitiidaht/Kyuquot/Coast Salish) has been designing and building costumes for theatre, television & feature films for more than 15 years & over 60 credits.

Career highlights include being one of the Indigenous Consultants for the new Marvel series, ECHO; the lead Costume Designer for the feature film & tv series, Bones of Crows; Costume Designer, 1491: The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus; Costume Designer of the award-winning feature films, Red Snow and Monkey Beach.

With over 20+ years of onset experience, Carmen is now moving to producing and writing. In 2020, she joined as an Associate Producer and Costume Designer for the short film Kiri and the Girl, with Grace Dove in her directorial debut. In 2019, she was accepted into the Women in Film & TV, Tricksters and Writers Program. In 2022, she took part in the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity's Indigenous Screenwriting Residency Program. Carmen is writing a television series, featuring Trickster, Sasquatch, Wild Woman, in a family dramedy series. The show concept has got her placement in the Whistler Film Festival, Women in Focus. In Jan 2024, she enrolled in the Sundance Collab: TV Writing five-month program and is bringing the story concept to life. She has been accepted into the Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative and will pitch RAVENS CLAN.

Unique traits: Indigenous Showrunner

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Female

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Harpoon Rock Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance The romantic tale of the Harpoon Rock and Thunderbird. Coast Salish legend tells of a harpoon hunter who selfishly hunts for himself; Thunderbird decides to teach a lesson of humility and greed.
Triggers Budget: $100K - $1M | Documentary Based on the true story of the groundbreaking Supreme court case, Arthur Ivan Thompson vs. The Queen of England In Right of Canada. His experience in the Alberni Indian Residential School and the Nanaimo Indian Hospital is told through present-day recounts and how he is dealing with his triggers/PTSD.