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1 4 7 ABORIGINALITY I CAN MAKE ART ... WAPOS BAY (SERIES 3) Meet world champion hoop dancer and hip hop artist Dallas Wapos Bay is a light-hearted, stop-motion animation series that Arcand, who is connecting urban First Nations youth to their LIKE ANDREW QAPPIK follows the adventures of three children from a Cree community rural ancestral histories. Arcand is a seventh generation First Andrew Qappik is a world-renowned printmaker from in northern Saskatchewan. Available in English, in a French- Nations Canadian from the Alexander (Kipohtakaw) Plains Cree Pangnirtung, Nunavut. In this film, he captivates his student dubbed version, as well as a Cree-dubbed version with En­ Nation. Many believe the seventh generation will bring positive audience by creating a soapstone relief print before their very glish subtitles. | Director: Dennis Jackson, Aboriginal filmmaker change to the world, and in Aboriginality, which fuses anima- eyes. Then it’s the kids’ turn. Imbued with a deep appreciation | 2010 (6 x 24 min) tion with live-action dance, the power and spirit of culture for life in the North, I Can Make Art . . . Like Andrew Qappik of- sweep across time and space. | Directors: Dominique Keller, fers an intimate look at a rarely seen and truly magical creative $279.95 or Tom Jackson and Dan Gies, Aboriginal filmmaker| 2007 (14 min) process. | Director: Jane Churchill | 2005 (11 min) $69.95/episode 10+ Additional footage and an in-depth interview with world 5+ champion hoop dancer Dallas Arcand. $69.95 ANIMATION ARTS ARTS – LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE $69.95 5+ SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS – LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE ARTS – MUSIC SOCIAL STUDIES

2 4 8 | NEW FOR ANGELA I CAN MAKE ART ... WHEN ALL THE LEAVES ARE GONE Gold Apple Award Category: Classroom Social Studies – 1996 Inspired by the personal experiences of writer and director National Educational Media Network Competition, Oakland (USA) LIKE RON NOGANOSH Alanis Obomsawin, the film combines autobiography, fiction A dramatic story of racism and empowerment, inspired by the Ron Noganosh is a highly regarded sculptor and installation and fable to create a deeply moving story about the power of experience of Rhonda Gordon and her daughter Angela, whose artist who transforms everyday items—rusted hubcaps, com- dreams. As the only First Nations student in an all-white school lives were changed by a bus ride. When three boys harass them, puter parts, feathers—into artworks that are at once funny, in the 1940s, eight-year-old Wato is keenly aware of the hostil- Rhonda finds the courage and determination to take a powerful imaginative and thought-provoking. Conveying a strong sense ity towards her. Alone in her suffering, she finds solace and stand against ignorance and prejudice. A great discussion- of respect for the environment and for cultural identity, this strength in the protective world of her magical dreams. English, starter on racism and its impact. | Directors: Nancy Trites Botkin film offers kids a new way to create art and make powerful French, Wabanaki, Atikamekw, Innu and Inuktitut versions. and Daniel Prouty, Aboriginal filmmakers | 1993 (24 min) statements about their world. | Director: Jane Churchill | 2005 | Director: Alanis Obomsawin, Aboriginal filmmaker| 2011 (17 min) (15 min) One special presentation DVD – A discussion of the film $69.95 10+ CITIZENSHIP/POLITICS – DISCRIMINATION $69.95 5+ ARTS $79.95 10+ SOCIAL ISSUES CITIZENSHIP/POLITICS – DIVERSITY RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY SOCIAL STUDIES

3 6 9 HOW PEOPLE GOT FIRE MAQ AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WOODS SCHOOL ON THE MOVE In the village of Carcross, in the Tagish First Nation, Grandma The story of Maq, a Mi’kmaq boy who realizes his potential with Merit Award for Educational Value – 2008 Montana CINE Kay invites the local children into her kitchen and tells them the the help of some inconspicuous mentors. Mi’kmaq folklorist International Film Festival traditional tale of how Crow brought fire to people. Here, in the Gilbert Sewell reprises his role as storyteller in this animated Instead of going away to school, Evenk children in remote heart of the community’s spiritual and cultural memory, past tale about Creation and discovering resources within to help southeastern Siberia have the school brought to them! An- and present blend, myth and reality meet, and the metaphor of build self-confidence and strength. | Director: Phyllis Grant, thropologist Alexandra Lavrillier is fighting alongside the Evenk fire infuses all. | Director: Daniel Janke | 2009 (16 min) Aboriginal filmmaker | 2007 (8 min) people to save their heritage. School on the Move travels with her to the taiga where this nomadic people live. Here she has $69.95 5+ $69.95 5+ helped set up a mobile school to give Evenk children the chance ARTS CHILDREN & FAMILY to receive a modern education without having to sacrifice their LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE ancestral traditions. In French and Evenki with English subtitles. RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY | Director: Michel Debats | 2008 (50 min) $89.95 10+ ARTS – MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA CHILDREN & FAMILY RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

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1 4 7 360 DEGREES BETWEEN TWO WORLDS FINDING DAWN Best Short Documentary – 2008 Aboriginal Film and Video Joseph Idlout was once the world’s most famous Inuit. He became Gold Audience Award – 2006 Amnesty International Film Festival, Festival, Winnipeg a symbol of his people, the heroic myth that fascinated the white Vancouver Sébastien Aubin, a French-speaking member of the Opaskwayak imagination. In this film, Idlout’s son, Peter Paniloo, takes us on a Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just Cree Nation in Manitoba, has begun an apprenticeship in tra­ journey through his father’s life. Idlout gets caught up in the white three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone ditional Aboriginal medicine. Mark Thompson is the healer who world, trying to improve his family’s fortunes, and ultimately missing or been murdered in over the past 30 years. has chosen to teach Sébastien. The backdrop to this transfer of loses sight of who he is and where he belongs. | Director: Barry This documentary puts a human face on this national tragedy. knowledge between the generations is today’s accelerated world, Greenwald | 1990 (57 min) This is an epic journey into the dark heart of Native women’s embodied by Sébastien, who is caught between modernity and experience in Canada. | Director: Christine Welsh, Métis film- tradition. In French with English subtitles. | Director: Caroline $69.95 13+ maker | 2006 (74 min) Monnet, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2008 (18 min) GEOGRAPHY HISTORY – CANADIAN HISTORY $69.95 15+ $69.95 15+ SOCIAL ISSUES POLITICS – HUMAN RIGHTS & GLOBALIZATION HEALTH & MEDICINE GOVERNMENT– LAW & CRIME RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY SOCIAL ISSUES – GIRLS & WOMEN SOCIAL STUDIES 2 5 8 ARCTIC CIRCLE CBQM FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID Climate change is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than any More than a radio station, Fort McPherson’s citizen-run CBQM is other region on Earth. This is where the impact of human activ- a vital expression of cultural resilience—plus it plays the best SUZUKI MOVIE ity—sensitive ecosystems forever altered by climate change—is old time country music in the Mackenzie Delta. CBQM is a tip of VIFF Environmental Film Audience Award – 2010 Vancouver felt the most. Shot in HD, in some of the world’s most desolate the hat to the “Moccasin Telegraph” and the Teetl’it Gwich’in International Film Festival and stunning locations, Arctic Circle marries dramatic footage people who sustain it. | Director: Dennis Allen, Aboriginal film- Award-winning director Sturla Gunnarsson presents a biography with hard science and striking computer graphics to tell the maker | 2010 (66 min) of ideas featuring iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcast- story of climate change. | Directors: Wally Longul and Takashi er and activist David Suzuki. At 73 years of age, Suzuki delivers Shibasaki | 2009 (81 min) $79.95 15+ what he describes as “a last lecture—a distillation of my life and ARTS – MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA thoughts, my legacy, what I want to say before I die.” | Director: $129 13+ SOCIAL STUDIES Sturla Gunnarsson | 2010 (92 min) NVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION SCIENCE $129 13+ ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION SOCIAL ISSUES

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3 6 9 ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER CHIEFS (SERIES) THE GIFT OF DIABETES Camera d’Or for Best First Feature Film – 2001 Cannes Film This series relates the saga of five great First Nations chiefs: Best Public Service Award – 2005 Annual American Indian Film Festival Sitting Bull, Pontiac, Joseph Brant, Black Hawk and Poundmaker. Festival, San Francisco This dramatization of an Inuit legend was filmed in Inuktitut and Their stories form a central drama in the history of the North When Aboriginal filmmaker Brion Whitford found out he had directed by Inuit filmmakers, making it the first feature film of its American continent. Their living descendants are the storytell- Type 2 diabetes, he was overwhelmed by the medications pre- kind. The Arctic saga follows a small community of nomadic Inuit ers. By blending documentary and re-enactment, the episodes scribed. Brion believed that the answers might lie elsewhere, in who become divided by an evil shaman. Jealousy leads to murder reveal an alternative and essential history of Canada and the traditional Native healing practices. On his journey, he tries to and a daring escape, with Atanarjuat running naked over the ice. United States. | Directors: Brian McKenna and Gil Cardinal, Métis understand why this disease has become an epidemic afflicting In Inuktitut with English subtitles. Widescreen format. | Director: filmmaker | 2002 (6 X 47 min) Native people. | Directors: John Paskievich and O. Brion Whitford, Zacharias Kunuk, Inuit filmmaker | 2000 (168 min) $169 or Aboriginal filmmaker | 2005 (58 min) $79.95 13+ $69.95 15+ ARTS – LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE $69.95/episode 13+ HEALTH & MEDICINE ARTS – MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA HISTORY – CANADIAN HISTORY SOCIAL ISSUES SOCIAL STUDIES HISTORY – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA POLITICS – WAR, CONFLICT & PEACE 10 13 16 THE INVISIBLE NATION MANAWAN PASSAGE The Algonquin once lived in harmony with the vast territory they Now remastered on DVD, Manawan was originally part of film- Grand Prize for Best Canadian Production – 2009 Banff World occupied. This balance was upset when the Europeans arrived maker Alanis Obomsawin’s 1972 educational kit, which chal- Television Festival in the 16th century. Gradually, the Algonquin’s traditions were lenged official colonial history and placed the Atikamekw people It was news that shook the English-speaking world. British ex- undermined and their natural resources plundered. Today, barely at the centre of their own story. The film is driven by the activist plorer Sir John Franklin and his crew had perished while trying to 9,000 Algonquin are left. They live in about 10 communities, often principles that distinguish Obomsawin’s entire body of work. In find the Northwest Passage. The report came in 1851 from John enduring abject poverty and human rights violations. In French Attikamek, French and English. | Director: Alanis Obomsawin, Rae, a Scottish doctor working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, with English subtitles. | Directors: Richard Desjardins and Robert Aboriginal filmmaker | 2009 (63 min) | Remastered version and did not sit well with Sir John’s widow. A bitter public cam- Monderie | 2008 (97 min) A booklet containing a brief history of Manawan (in At- paign discredited Rae’s version of events and marked an entire tikamek, French and English) nation of northern Inuit with the horrifying label of murderous $79.95 13+ cannibals. | Director: John Walker | 2008 (108 min) HISTORY – CANADIAN HISTORY $79.95 13+ SOCIAL STUDIES CITIZENSHIP – CULTURAL DIVERSITY $99 13+ SOCIAL STUDIES GEOGRAPHY HISTORY GOVERNMENT – WAR, CONFLICT & PEACE 11 14 17 L’IL’WATA MARTHA OF THE NORTH QIMMIT: A CLASH OF TWO TRUTHS L’il’wata is an important account of Lil’wat culture and traditions. In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit Rigoberta Menchu Second Prize – 2010 First Peoples’ Festival Challenging official historical accounts that denied Aboriginal families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to (Land InSights), people their own voice, filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin worked their own devices in the Far North. In this icy desert realm, Martha For the Inuit, the sled dog symbolized a way of life as well as a with members of the Lil’wat First Nation to tell their own stories Flaherty and her family lived through one of Canadian history’s deep connection to the land. But from the 1950s to the 1970s, about residential school life, ancestral puberty rites and tra­ most sombre and little-known episodes. English, French and the sled dog population dropped from an estimated 20,000 to ditional economic practices. In Ucwalmícwts, English and French. Inuktitut versions. | Director: Marquise Lepage | 2008 (83 min) just a few hundred dogs. Qimmit: A Clash of Two Truths explores | Director: Alanis Obomsawin, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2009 (55 the mystery of how and why the sled dogs disappeared, a mys- min) | Remastered version $79.95 13+ tery that has left deep wounds across Canada’s Arctic. English, A booklet containing a brief history of L’il’wata (in CANADIAN HISTORY French and Inuktitut versions. | Directors: Ole Gjerstad and Joelie Ucwalmícwts, English and French) GOVERNMENT – DISCRIMINATION Sanguya | 2010 (120 min) $79.95 13+ $69.95 15+ CHILDREN & FAMILY HISTORY CITIZENSHIP – CULTURAL DIVERSITY GOVERNMENT/CITIZENSHIP/POLITICS SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES

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12 15 18 LITTLE CAUGHNAWAGA: NORTHERN GREETINGS REEL INJUN: ON THE TRAIL In the early 1970s, the James Bay project forever changed the TO BROOKLYN AND BACK landscape, and people’s lives. To carry out this megaproject, one OF THE HOLLYWOOD INDIAN Best Feature Documentary – 2008 Aboriginal Film and Video village was created (Radisson) and another moved (Fort George). Canada Award – 2010 , Toronto Festival, Winnipeg Radisson’s inhabitants are still tempted to move back down Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining and insight- While Mohawk high-steel workers were building Manhattan’s south; and while the Cree of Chisasibi (formerly Fort George) ful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North iconic skyscrapers, Mohawk women kept their feet firmly on the look to the future, they also want to maintain their traditions— American Aboriginals throughout a century of cinema. With clips ground, sustaining a vibrant community in the heart of Brooklyn. especially for the benefit of their youth, who are strongly enticed from hundreds of classic and recent films,Reel Injun traces the In Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back, filmmaker Reaghan by the modern world. In French with English subtitles. | Director: evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people, from the silent Tarbell evokes the neighbourhood’s heyday, from the 1920s to Benoît Pilon | 2007 (92 min) film era to today.| Director: Neil Diamond, Aboriginal filmmaker the 60s, and salutes the resilient spirit of her fellow Mohawks. | | 2009 (88 min) Director: Reaghan Tarbell, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2009 (70 min) $79.95 13+ SOCIAL ISSUES $99 13+ $69.95 10+ CITIZENSHIP – CULTURAL DIVERSITY ARTS – MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA ECONOMICS – WORK & LABOUR RELATIONS CULTURAL DIVERSITY LLEC HISTORY – CANADIAN HISTORY CO TI HISTORY SOCIAL ISSUES – GIRLS & WOMEN O IS N H T

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U , 6 N 1 T I L M A R C H 19 21 23 RICHARD CARDINAL: CRY FROM SIX MILES DEEP WAPIKONI – ENCOUNTER Colin Low Award for Most Innovative Canadian Documentary A DIARY OF A MÉTIS CHILD – DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver IN KITCISAKIK A moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who February 28, 2006. Members of the Iroquois Confederacy (also Wapikoni – Encounter in Kitcisakik documents a visit by the committed suicide in 1984 at the age of 17. He had been taken known as the Haudenosaunee or People of the Longhouse) Wapikoni Mobile, the celebrated studio on wheels, which, for the from his home at the age of four because of family problems blockade a highway near Caledonia, Ontario, to prevent a hous- past six years, has travelled through Aboriginal communities in and spent the rest of his short life moving in and out of 28 ing development on land in their traditional territories. Their providing production training to youth. Viewers accom- foster homes, group homes and shelters in Alberta. A sensi- actions are led and supported by the Haudenosaunee clan moth- pany the Wapikoni Mobile team and young Algonquin singers tive, articulate young man, Richard Cardinal left behind a diary ers. They rally their community, demand recognition on their and filmmakers into a world steeped in history, a place where upon which this film is based. | Director: Alanis Obomsawin, own terms—and lead a cultural reawakening in their tradition- the landscape’s wild beauty contrasts with human misery and Aboriginal filmmaker | 1986 (29 min) ally matriarchal society. | Director: Sara Roque | 2010 (43 min) decay. In French and Algonquin with English subtitles. | Director: Mathieu Vachon | 2010 (72 min) $69.95 15+ $79.95 15+ HEALTH & MEDICINE – MENTAL HEALTH CITIZENSHIP $69.95 15+ SOCIAL ISSUES – TEENS HISTORY – CANADIAN HISTORY ARTS – MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA SOCIAL ISSUES – GIRLS & WOMEN CULTURAL DIVERSITY SOCIAL STUDIES 20 22 24 SECOND STORIES VISTAS WAR OF 1812 (SERIES) Following on the heels of the enormously successful First Stor- Some of Canada’s finest Aboriginal filmmakers—hailing The War of 1812 is a four-part documentary series that brings ies project, which produced three separate collections of short from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia—come to life an extraordinary, but not well-understood, conflict that films, Second Stories was designed to give Aboriginal film- together in this collection of 13 short films on the subject of decided the fate of North America, confirmed the creation of makers the means to share stories that have a deep significance nationhood. A compellingly diverse mix of animation and docu- Canada and annihilated for all time the dream of an indepen­dent for them and their communities. The compilation features the mentary. | Compilation – Aboriginal filmmakers| 2010 (47 min) Native nation. | Director: Brian McKenna | 1998 (4 x 52 min) shorts Honour Thy Father, It Had to Be Done and Deb-we-win Ge-kend-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle. | Directors: Gerald $99 13+ $225 or Auger, Tessa Desnomie and Lorne Olson, Aboriginal filmmakers ARTS | 2010 (3 x 22 min) SOCIAL STUDIES $69.95/episode 13+ HISTORY AND POLITICS – CANADA $69.95 15+ HISTORY AND POLITICS – UNITED STATES RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY CITIZENSHIP SOCIAL ISSUES

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FRENCH-LANGUAGE FILMS ADDRESS: National Film Board of Canada Sales & Customer Service, D-10 Our corresponding French-language promotional brochure, PO Box 6100, Station Centre-ville Sélection DVD Études autochtones, is available online at Montreal, Quebec H3C 3H5 onf.ca/education. SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE! NEW BOX SET UNIKKAUSIVUT: SHARING OUR STORIES Unikkausivut is the National Film Board of Canada’s Inuit audiovisual legacy initiative, and an unprecedented resource. This collection of films is the largest of its kind in the world. Discover the Inuit way of life, their perspectives and values, in films representing all four Canadian Inuit regions. Some of these works are now available to all in this box set of 24 films, in Inuktitut, English and French. | 2011 (488 min) A 3-DVD box set $1499 $899 15+ SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS – MEDIA EDUCATION AND CINEMA ANIMATION

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