Marie Slaight has worked in Montreal, New Orleans and Buenos Aires as a writer, producer, and performer for film, theatre and music. She is now the director of Sydney-based Altaire Productions and Publications, which has been involved in independent New Orleans music such films as the award-winning documentary Bury the Hatchet.
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Co-founder of the original Studio Altaire in Montreal, Marie Slaight has collaborated on a series of short films with Terrence Tasker and was an actor and creative consultant for National Film Board of Canada co-productions. Other jobs over the years include working in a jewellery factory, as a farm worker, artist model, scene painter, nightclub photographer, and both teaching English and running a bed and breakfast while living in Buenos Aires.
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Marie Slaight is currently the director of Altaire Productions & Publications, a Sydney-based arts production company, which has been involved in creative consulting and co-producing for independent New Orleans music and such films as the award-winning documentary Bury the Hatchet, Happy Baby Kindred and Anna and Modern Day Slavery.
Her poetry has appeared in American Writing, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg, The Abiko Quarterly, New Orleans Review and elsewhere.
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