CANADA | 78 min | Partial Subtitles
Co-presented by Guelph Arts Council
Tickets: $12/PWYW
A collection of short docs made by Indigenous filmmakers.
Tiny
Ritchie Hemphill & Ryan Haché | CANADA | 16 min
Nakwaxda’xw Elder Colleen Hemphill, reflects on her childhood, as a young girl growing up on a float-house in the wild and unpredictable Pacific Northwest and its waters.
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Ritchie Hemphill
Ritchie Hemphill grew up on Tsulquate reserve and was raised by his community, the Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw people. He is currently living on Coast Salish territory on Vancouver Island, Canada. Ritchie is both a filmmaker and a musician, working to create art that is healing for himself and for his people.
Ryan Haché
Ryan is a self-taught stop motion animator and short film director working in claymation and 2D animation. His works range from realism to abstract absurdity and macabre humour. Ryan is driven to create alluring oddity in his work hoping to charm people with the innate strangeness of claymation
Our Maternal Home
Janine Windolph | CANADA | 27 min
Tracing their origins to the Cree Nation of Waswanipi, a family confronts the impacts of generational and cultural disconnection, discovering a potent form of medicine: the bonds of kinship.
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Janine Windolph
Janine Windolph is a filmmaker, educator and storyteller who’s currently working at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity as Director of Indigenous Arts. She was formerly the Curator of Community Engagement at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she also worked as a Storykeeper, Education Program Assistant and Curator of Public Programs. Janine teaches beading, visual arts, photography, filmmaking, writing, storytelling and Indigenous iconography in schools, libraries and non-profits.
Ancestral Threads
Sean Stiller | CANADA | 12 min
Joleen Mitton is on a mission to use fashion as medicine for Vancouver’s Indigenous community. Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week is the first event of its kind, and her life’s work.
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Sean Stiller
Sean Stiller is an award-winning filmmaker specializing in documentary, Indigenous, commercial and commissioned films. Over the past seven years he has worked on a variety of productions, from TV series to feature length films and branded documentary series, as well as his own original projects. His films have screened domestically and internationally, at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Lunenberg Docs, Hot Docs Festival, ImagineNative, Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival, Maoriland, and Maryland International Film Festival, among others.
6 minutes/km
Catherine Boivin | CANADA | 3 min
In rhythm with the footsteps of her Atikamekws ancestors, Catherine immerses us in the poetic, dreamlike universe of her morning run.
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Catherine Boivin
Catherine Boivin is a multidisciplinary Atikamekw Nehirowisiw artist based in Odanak. She obtained a Bachelor's of Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She works in media and performance arts, in particular. Marathoner, pow wow dancer and TikToker, she is involved both artistically and socially in raising awareness about Indigenous realities. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Wapikoni Mobile.
Heartbeat of a Nation
Eric Janvier | CANADA | 20 min
Celebrating Dene cultural reclamation and revitalization, as a father passes on traditional knowledge to his child through the teachings of a caribou drum.
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Eric Janvier
Eric Janvier is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker who has found space in both the narrative and documentary fields. He trained at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, California. He wrote and directed Reserved, which was broadcast on the CBC’s Short Film Face Off. He most recently produced the upcoming feature film Hey Viktor!
