Pamela Matthews

Acting

Pamela Matthews

Kenora, Ontario, Canada

Pamela Matthews is Cree from the Sachigo Lake First Nation. She works as an Actor, Director, Filmmaker, Editor, Producer and Instructor with more than thirty years experience in the industry. She teaches Directing & Performance at Ryerson University and is a Professor (Film/Video/Sound Design) at Centennial College. Pam has been teaching Filmmaking since 2002 for The American Indian Film Institute's Tribal Touring Program in San Francisco where she has overseen the production of approximately fifty short films. Pam received her Masters Degree in Film Production from York University, completed undergraduate Film Studies at Ryerson University and graduated from Ryerson Theatre School in 1989. In 2003, she received the Gold Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement from Ryerson University's Department of Film. Pam has numerous theatre credits as an Actor and Director. She has appeared in theatres across the country, including the National Arts Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Sunshine Theatre, Theatre Aquarius and O'Kaadenigan Wiingashk, and, in 2007, appeared in Margaret Atwood's new play, 'The Penelopiad' at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England. As a theatre director, she has directed productions for Magnus Theatre, Factory Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Canadian Stage, The Center for Indigenous Theatre, Woodland Cultural Centre, Buddies in Bad Times and Two Planks and a Passion. Pam studied directing at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York City and at the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain in London, England.

Acting credits

Shazam! poster
7.0

A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.

Shazam!

2019

Casino Jack poster
5.9

Based on a true story, a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.

Casino Jack

2010

Ithaqua poster
NR

During the decline of the fur trade, a mercenary struggles to unite the survivors of a famine-stricken outpost plagued by a dark force that leaves its victims with an insatiable hunger.

Ithaqua

2026

Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer poster
4.6

A look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both on the ice and off. The film also has a close focus on Spencer's father, and shows how he influenced Brian's violent life both before and after his death.

Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer

1993

School for Secrets poster
7.2

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.

School for Secrets

1946

Divided Loyalties poster
8.0

Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks. During the time of the American Revolution, Britain faces insurrection in its American colonies. The Iroquois Confederacy of the Six Nations must choose between their British ally and the American revolutionaries, whose democratic ideals they share.

Divided Loyalties

1990

At the Place of Ghosts poster
6.0

Haunted by the past, siblings Mise’l and Antle are destined to reunite and join forces against a dark spirit that emerges from their shared childhood. Once inseparable, their fractured relationship set by years of silence and a violent episode rooted in homophobia, is tested as they must return to Sk+te’kmujue’kati (the Place of Ghosts) a forest steeped in ancestral memory where time bends. What initiates from trauma soon transforms into an odyssey of healing, as Mise’l and Antle confront their caretaker’s cruelty, the weight of family secrets, and their own deepest fears.

At the Place of Ghosts

2026

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NR

A group of isolated neighbors in their small and secluded town in the northern Canadian territories during a snowstorm.

The Land of Nod

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4.4

In a desperate bid to take the guesswork out of finding a girlfriend, a faceless, voiceless, but obviously intrepid interviewer decides to make a job of it.

Interviews With My Next Girlfriend

2002