Georgina Lightning

Acting

Georgina Lightning

Born 1963-07-04 · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Georgina Lightning is a First Nations film director, screenwriter, and actress.

Acting credits

Die My Love poster
6.1

After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.

Die My Love

2025

Buffalo Daze poster
5.0

An Indian Reservation Robin Hood, "Indian cowboy" Jim Grinder was an outlaw to the government but a hero to his Tribe, who as the Old West passed and the world stumbled toward war fought a law that would make his very existence a crime.

Buffalo Daze

2025

Backroads poster
NR

A lawyer returns to her Cree reservation to defend her sister against murder charges.

Backroads

2000

Christmas in the Clouds poster
6.2

A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

Christmas in the Clouds

2001

Older Than America poster
4.4

The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to prevent her mother from revealing the atrocities that unfolded at a Native Indian boarding school.

Older Than America

2008

Cowboy Up poster
5.9

"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around; his brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland) is a rodeo clown, and the two use each other to play up their acts. But love may be one thing that tears the brothers apart. When Ely falls for the rodeo's sweetheart (Daryl Hannah), Hank is filled with jealousy and hatred. The brothers try to come to grips with their differences, but the competition gets as fierce as the bulls in the ring.

Cowboy Up

2002

Johnny Greyeyes poster
2.9

Johnny GreyEyes is a girl from an injun family. Since her childhood she was abused by her father and one day she killed him. She was arrested and convicted by the court to a long term in local prison. Where she finds the woman, another inmate, who became for her and her family and her first love.

Johnny Greyeyes

2000

Land poster
5.8

The Yellow Eagle family are Native American and live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. News reaches them that Floyd, the youngest son of the family, has died during military service in Afghanistan. The waiting begins to get his body back to the Reservation to be buried.

Land

2018

Behind the camera