Michelle Mama
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
MICHELLE MAMA is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and veteran factual producer/director with over 300 of hours of television under her belt and has been nominated twice as a producer and twice as a director for Canadian Screen Awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
Michelle was most recently the Executive Producer of SUMMER QAMP (2024) a feature documentary film about an all queer camp for youth in the mountains of Alberta. She was Executive Producer on S3 of CANADA'S DRAG RACE - the country's top-rated SVOD series - as well as CANADA'S DRAG RACE: CANADA VS THE WORLD. Previously, she was showrunner on both seasons of IN THE MAKING, a prime-time CBC documentary series about ground-breaking artists,, as well as a writer on the iconic sketch comedy series BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW (IFC/CBC) and a director on the first season of History Channel's hit series LOST CAR RESCUE.
In 2021, Michelle produced and directed an 8-part documentary series for Fuse/OutTV called SHINE TRUE about Trans and Non-Binary folks discovering the way they want to present in the world that was lauded by The New York Times, The New Yorker and Vogue. In 2023, Michelle has launched GAY AGENDA - a new prodco designed specifically to develop and produce queer stories and continue her project of mentoring young queer and BIPOC creatives.
Michelle and GAY AGENDA are in development on the documentary feature ANTIDIVA: THE CONFESSIONS OF CAROLE POPE on the queer rock outlaw Carole Pope of Rough Trade, an episode THE NATURE OF THINGS on gender fluidity, as well as the scripted series WELL THAT'S JUST SUPER, written and directed by Julianna Notten.
Michelle is represented by Mark Turner at Abrams Artists Agency, NYC.
Michelle was most recently the Executive Producer of SUMMER QAMP (2024) a feature documentary film about an all queer camp for youth in the mountains of Alberta. She was Executive Producer on S3 of CANADA'S DRAG RACE - the country's top-rated SVOD series - as well as CANADA'S DRAG RACE: CANADA VS THE WORLD. Previously, she was showrunner on both seasons of IN THE MAKING, a prime-time CBC documentary series about ground-breaking artists,, as well as a writer on the iconic sketch comedy series BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW (IFC/CBC) and a director on the first season of History Channel's hit series LOST CAR RESCUE.
In 2021, Michelle produced and directed an 8-part documentary series for Fuse/OutTV called SHINE TRUE about Trans and Non-Binary folks discovering the way they want to present in the world that was lauded by The New York Times, The New Yorker and Vogue. In 2023, Michelle has launched GAY AGENDA - a new prodco designed specifically to develop and produce queer stories and continue her project of mentoring young queer and BIPOC creatives.
Michelle and GAY AGENDA are in development on the documentary feature ANTIDIVA: THE CONFESSIONS OF CAROLE POPE on the queer rock outlaw Carole Pope of Rough Trade, an episode THE NATURE OF THINGS on gender fluidity, as well as the scripted series WELL THAT'S JUST SUPER, written and directed by Julianna Notten.
Michelle is represented by Mark Turner at Abrams Artists Agency, NYC.