Janelle Wookey is an award-winning Producer, Writer, Director and co-founder of Wookey Films. Since 2013, she has overseen development and production of over 190 episodes of nationally-televised programming for CBC, Radio-Canada, TV5, APTN, AMI and Unis Tv. The work she’s produced has earned the company a Canadian Screen Award win (Indigiqueer, 2024), a Banff Rockie Award (A Nation and her Mother, 2022 - which she wrote and performed in) and 14 Prix Gémeaux (French-Canadian Emmys) nominations including top-tier recognitions for Best Youth Series (Manaachihtow, 2025; C’est moi qui décide! 2024), Best Arts & Culture Doc series (Encré dans la peau, 2022) and Best Arts & Culture Documentary (Les boys du ballet, 2016).

In 2025 Janelle led development, production and delivery of Wookey Films’ original scripted comedy, Malgré moi (Radio-Canada, Dec 2025). In 2023, her feature documentary pitch, The Indian in the Child, won Realscreen’s Propelle Pitch Competition following pitches to Netflix, PBS, A&E and Peacock in Los Angeles.  In recent years she’s appeared as a panelist at Banff World Media Fest, Prime Time in Ottawa and ImagineNATIVE in Toronto. In 2017 she served on the 9 person committee tasked with nominating the new CEO of CBC alongside Alanis Obomsawin and Colm Feore. A respected voice in her community, she’s also participated on jury panels for Telefilm, les Prix Gémeaux, Alliance Médias Jeunesse, the Indigenous Screen Office and le Fonds indépendant de production. 

Since launching, Janelle and her brother Jérémie, have taken Wookey Films from a two-sibling operation to a dynamic company employing 15 full time staff with end-to-end production and post production capabilities.

Janelle is a proud member of the Red River Métis Nation and of the LGBTQ+ community. She works full time out of the company’s main office in the heart of the Exchange District in Winnipeg.