Ms. Todd creates space for Indigenous production and storytelling, including designing and founding the IM4 Media Lab, an Indigenous XR Lab, where she is the creative director.

Ms. Todd is a director of over 100 projects including award-winning documentaries, and she’s created apps, digital media, games and animation. Ms. Todd creates, produces and show-runs award-winning series, especially for children and youth. Monkey Beach, her first feature, from the novel by Eden Robinson, launched to a strong audience and critical response, screening at TIFF, ImagineNative, opening VIFF, sweeping the drama awards at the American Indian Film Festival and was the #1 Canadian film at the box office for 4 weeks, screened at over 40 festivals worldwide and garnered over 20 awards.

She is a Fellow with the Indigenous Screen Office and Co-Creation Lab at MIT Initiative and on the Advisory Board to the ONX Studio. A respected speaker, she’s presented at VIFFImmersed, The Global AR/VR Summit, Kidscreen, MOMA and at the UN on Aboriginal International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. And she writes influential scholarly essays, including Aboriginal Narratives in Cyberspace.

Her many honours include a Rockefeller Fellowship to NYU, Sundance Scriptwriter’s Lab, Mayor’s Award for Media Arts (Vancouver), Women in Film and Video Innovator Award and Women of Excellence: United Nation’s Women’s Economic Forum.

Ms. Todd is Cree/Metis – St. Paul des Metis, White Fish Lake First Nation, Red River Metis.