Wendy Motion Brathwaite
Wendy Motion Brathwaite is a Canadian musician, writer and activist from Toronto, Ontario. 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. 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". 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". She has also published the poetry collections "Motion in Poetry" 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".