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Wendy Motion Brathwaite is a Canadian screenwriter, musician, and activist from Toronto, Ontario. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2020 film Akilla's Escape with Charles Officer, winning 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 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 for the Coroner episode "Eyes Up", and in 2023 she was nominated for Best Writing in a Web Program or Series for "The One Who Dies First", an episode of the comedy web series Revenge of the Black Best Friend.

Under her stage name Motion, Brathwaite has performed as a hip-hop artist and spoken word poet, releasing the CD Motion in Poetry: The Audio Xperience. She has published the poetry collections Motion in Poetry and 40 Dayz, and 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. Born in 1970, she is a Capricorn with a Life Path Number of 1, reflecting a pioneering creative spirit across screenwriting, music, and activism. As a screenwriter, she crafts narratives for film and television while maintaining parallel practice in performance poetry and visual storytelling.