Wendy Motion Brathwaite

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Wendy Motion Brathwaite is a Canadian musician, writer and activist from Toronto, Ontario. [1] She is most noted as cowriter with Charles Officer of the screenplay for the 2020 film Akilla's Escape , for which they won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021. [2]

She also wrote the short films A Man's Story (2016) and Theodore (2020), and has worked as a writer and story editor on the television series Coroner . In 2022, she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Writing in a Drama Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for the Coroner episode "Eyes Up", [3] and in 2023 she received a nomination for Best Writing in a Web Program or Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards for "The One Who Dies First", an episode of the comedy web series Revenge of the Black Best Friend .

She has performed as a hip hop artist and spoken word poet under the stage name Motion, and released the CD Motion in Poetry: The Audio Xperience. [4] She has also published the poetry collections Motion in Poetry [4] and 40 Dayz, and has written theatrical plays including Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape, 4our Woman, Aneemah’s Spot, Loveleigh’s Logue, Nightmare Dream and Rebirth of the Afronauts: A Black Space Odyssey . [5]

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