Marie Wright

Background

About Marie Wright

Marie Wright co-founded Mirror Image Media, a full-service video production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Marie comes from a background of wearing many hats, having a decade of experience as a director, cinematographer, and editor. She is an award winning filmmaker, who is passionate about creating commercials and documentaries for brands like Billabong, Parks Canada, United Way, the Canadian Cancer Society, Vice and more. Being a queer and female duo, Marie and her twin sister Meaghan founded Mirror Image Media to use film as a vehicle to create lasting impact. Some of her documentaries include Freedom Swell, a CBC Gem feature length documentary on the North Preston Surf Program (Screen Nova Scotia’s 2022 “Best Documentary”), which explores the historical reasons behind the lack of diversity in surfing, Living in Flow, a VICE & Telus Fund docuseries on mental health and using water as a transformational outlet (Screen Nova Scotia’s 2023 “Best Television Series Unscripted”), The Social Shift, a feature length documentary on social entrepreneurship across Canada (Screen Nova Scotia’s 2019 “Best Documentary” and FIN’s 2018 “Best Edited Documentary”), Transform, a short documentary on people living with spinal cord injuries (Mosaic Film Festival’s 2019 “Best Documentary”), and My STEM Job, an NFB series featuring 20 females in STEM across Canada an an educational tool for the next generation of young women.