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ABOUT THE ABOUT THIS CATALOGUE WINNIPEG FILM GROUP The Winnipeg Film Group Winnipeg’s Indigenous population makes up was founded in 1974 as one approximately 11% of the city’s overall population, of the first film production in comparison to the national average of centres in Canada. As 4%; however the organization has historically the organization’s initial vision document states, it struggled to proportionately reflect this diversity was established “with the within its supported filmmaker base. intention of collectively gathering the financial A decade ago, the organization began placing and material support and priority emphasis on strategic programming assistance necessary for with the objective of becoming more reflective the freedom to make our of its overall community, including placing own films and remain in the province.” This document increased focus on Indigenous, culturally diverse continues that “existing and women filmmakers. Special initiatives channels of exhibition and supporting Indigenous filmmakers include an distribution do not provide, ongoing presentation partnership between onto their own, a way of getting independent films its Cinematheque exhibition wing and Urban to the public,” and that one Shaman in Winnipeg and imagineNATIVE in of the main goals of the Toronto; the Mosaic Women’s Film Project, organization is to make this supporting the development of new Indigenous available. and culturally diverse women filmmakers; a The Winnipeg Film Group is . pilot Aboriginal Artist in Residence program with a three-pronged organization, with a Cinematheque, a Shane Belcourt; presentation programs by production centre and a commissioned curators Michelle Latimer and distribution centre. Although Jenny Western; and its recently-released high FEATURED its distribution centre school educational resource guide, Finding is among the smallest Focus: Framing Canadian Métis and First in Canada, its strong
INTRODUCTION provincial and regional Nations on Film. FILMMAKERS focus enables it to carry the work of filmmakers and Though the Winnipeg Film Group recognizes video artists who might that much work still needs to be done in this area otherwise be overlooked by – and work is indeed ongoing – on the occasion organizations in larger cities. of its 40th anniversary it is taking stock to The Winnipeg Film Group’s unique amalgamated nature celebrate what has been achieved. This catalogue also enables its distribution features works in the Winnipeg Film Group’s centre to support new distribution holdings by Indigenous filmmakers, filmmakers just emerging many of whom commenced their filmmaking from its sister production centre wing. careers as a result of the programs and support offered by the organization as a whole.
Table of Contents Cecilia Araneda, Executive Director Featured Filmmakers ..... 3 [email protected] Featured Works ...... 11 Monica Lowe, Distribution Director [email protected]
Cover image: film still from Caroline Monnet’s Gephyrophobia.
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MYRLE BALLARD WARREN CARIOU Dr. Myrle Ballard is a recent doctoral graduate of Warren Cariou grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan the Natural Resources Institute at the University and has worked as a construction worker, a of Manitoba and a Lake St. Martin First Nation technical writer, and a political aide. He holds a community member. She aspires to tell stories of Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto indigenous struggle and resilience in the face of and now teaches Aboriginal Literature at the environmental racism and the denial of human rights. University of Manitoba, where he is Canada Research Chair and Director of the Centre for Flooding Hope, Dirs. Myrle Creative Writing and Oral Traditions. He is of Ballard, Shirley Thompson, Documentary, 20:28, 2012 Métis, German and Norwegian heritage, and (pg 15) Overburden, Dirs. Neil his writing explores the relationships between McArthur, Warren Cariou, Native and non-Native communities in Western Documentary, 14:57, 2009 (pg 19) Canada. His first book, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs: Two Novellas (Coteau, 1999), SHANE BELCOURT Land of Oil and Water, garnered rave reviews, and his memoir Lake of Dirs. Neil McArthur, Warren Shane Belcourt is an award-winning Métis the Prairies won the Drainie-Taylor Prize and was Cariou, Documentary, nominated for the Charles Taylor prize. Land of filmmaker based in Toronto. His debut feature 43:25, 2009 (pg 17) film, Tkaronto, played many international film Oil and Water and Overburden are his first films. festivals and received several awards. In 2007,
Belcourt was the recipient of the IFC Mentorship FEATURED FILMMAKERS Award and one of 22 filmmakers chosen for the GABRIEL CONSTANT 2007 TIFF Talent Lab. In 2010, he co-wrote and directed Boxed In, a short film produced by the Gabriel Constant is from the Opaskwayak Cree NFB that was included in the Canadian Pavilion Nation (OCN) in northern Manitoba. He is a F*%K YEAH, Dir. Shane at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Belcourt was also professional painter who also designs creatures Belcourt, Comedy/Fiction, selected to Telefilm’s Feature Aboriginal Storytellers and has an interest in costume-making. 9:36, 2010 ( pg 14) Program to further develop his next dramatic Constant attended the Applied Multimedia Training Center in Winnipeg and has worked Keeping Quiet, Dir. Shane feature film, Better Place and was selected the with the OCN organization in a variety of roles.
FEATURED FILMMAKERS FEATURED Belcourt, Drama/Fiction, Filmmaker in Residence by the Winnipeg Film 9:16, 2010 (pg 17) Group. Belcourt and his writer partner, Duane He has a strong interest in visual FX for film and Murray, were accepted into the National Screen video and has made several short experimental A Common Experience, Finding Sergeant Partridge, films. Finding Sergeant Partridge is his first Dir. Shane Belcourt, Drama/ Institute’s Totally Television program in 2011. Dirs. Gabriel Constant, Neil documentary. Fiction, 10:20, 2013 (pg 12) Belcourt is currently developing his next feature Bignell, Documentary, 14:00, film, Hard Feelings. 2014 (pg 14)
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BERNY HI DARRYL NEPINAK Berny Hi is endlessly fascinated by nature, Darryl Nepinak, a Saulteaux from the Ojibwe from the macro to the microcosmic levels, Nation, is best known for making short films and aspects of the human experience: beauty, with comedic, ironic twists, many of which he sensation, and our unique perception of time performs in himself. His film Zwei Indianer Aus and space. Hi celebrates glitches and flaws Winnipeg screened at the Berlin Film Festival in born during a manual, hands-on process. In 2009, and his works have recently been featured service to these creative inspirations, he is often at exhibitions at both Images Festival (Toronto) found working with analogue technologies, such and Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal as celluloid, while crafting as a stonecutter, Art (Winnipeg). carefully removing all that does not fit, through new media. Reel Tangata Films Good Morning Native Zwei Indianer Aus presents DNT, Dir. Darryl America, Dir. Darryl Winnipeg, Dir. Darryl George Bassler’s Perpetual Véronique à vélo, Nepinak, Documentary, Nepinak, Comedy/Fiction, Nepinak, Comedy/Fiction, Motion Machine, Dir. Berny Dir. Berny Hi, Chrystene Ells, 21:00, 2004 (pg 20) 5:08, 2006 (pg 16) 2:40, 2008 (pg 22) Hi, Animated Documentary, Experimental/Fiction, 9:49, Bannock, Dir. Darryl Bigfoot, Dir. Darryl Nepinak, 3:30, HD, 2014 (pg 15) 2011 (pg 22) Nepinak, Documentary, Comedy/Fiction, 13:00, 2007 7:00, 2006 (pg 13) (pg 13)
Ming So, Dir. Darryl Nepinak, INDIAN, Dir. Darryl Nepinak, CAROLINE MONNET Experimental, 3:24, 2006 Comedy/Fiction, 1:40, 2008 FEATURED FILMMAKERS Caroline Monnet is a self-taught award (pg 18) (pg 17) winning filmmaker and visual artist working in film/video, installation and printmaking. Her work has been exhibited in film festivals and JODY LEIGH PACEY galleries worldwide, including TIFF (Toronto), Jody Leigh Pacey is a young Aboriginal woman Clermont-Ferrand vidéoformes (France), Urban from Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery Canada. She has directed two music videos for (Winnipeg), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Winnipeg rappers Skelpa Squad and several Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art FEATURED FILMMAKERS FEATURED independent short films that have screened at (Winnipeg) and the Manguere Arts Centre festivals in Canada, the US and Nepal. Pacey is a (Auckland, NZ). Monnet is currently based recent graduate of the National Screen Institute. in Montréal, Canada. Sorrow’s Companion, Pick Up, Dir. Jody Leigh IKWÉ, Dir. Caroline Monnet Kwoni, Dir. Caroline Monnet, Dir. Jody Leigh Pacey, Drama/ Pacey, Drama/Fiction, 5:05, Experimental Documentary, Documentary, 2:30, 2010 Fiction, 15:30, 2010 (pg 21) 2011 (pg 20) 4:35, 2009 (pg 16) (pg 17)
Tashina, Dir. Caroline Warchild, Dir. Caroline Monnet, Documentary, Monnet, Documentary, 4:43, 2010 (pg 21) 5:40, 2010 (pg 22)
Gephyrophobia, Dir. Caroline Monnet, Experimental Documentary, 2:21, 2012 (pg 15)
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THE EPHEMERALS JACKIE TRAVERSE The Ephemerals is a collective of Winnipeg artists Jackie Traverse is a graduate from the School of and curators who have been working together Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba. She is an since 2010. Collective members Jaimie Isaac, Niki Anishinaabe from Lake St. Martin First Nation. Little, and Jenny Western aim to investigate and Traverse works in all mediums from sculpture, interrogate perceptions of Indigenous identity mixed media, and video. She has created several through aspects of material culture, particularly short films including a stop-motion animation those involving clothing and fashion. These three on missing and murdered women in Canada Aboriginal women established The Ephemerals as she is deeply moved by the injustices faced collective to function as an outlet to foster and by First Nations people. Through her art she Maiden Indian, Dirs. The Two Scoops, Dir. Jackie Ephemerals (Niki Little, motivate artistic production within their individual Traverse, Animated expresses her ideas and opinions while striving Jaimie Isaac, Jenny Western), practices as well as to engage collaborative Documentary, 2:55, 2008 to inspire dialogue on addressing her people’s Documentary, 3:25, 2011 projects that revolve around issues of Indigenous (pg 22) social issues. Traverse’s painting is truly where (pg 18) contemporary art. Drawing inspiration from their her heart lies. She feels the strongest spiritual Empty, Dir. Jackie Traverse, multidisciplinary artistic practices and diverse Animated Documentary, connection with all that she creates. Her cultural backgrounds, the collective’s projects 5:07, 2009 (pg 14) happiest moments are when she is painting. are fueled by collaborative pranks, formal interventions, and bizarre affairs meant to push back the supposed boundaries of Indigeneity. The RHAYNE VERMETTE Ephemerals do not exhibit a specific aesthetic Rhayne Vermette is an emerging filmmaker FEATURED FILMMAKERS but espouse something more transformative and and artist from Winnipeg. Having studied fleeting based on the collective’s current interests architecture at the University of Manitoba, her and the spirit of the times. work most often delves into excavating content from architectural consequences.
MADISON THOMAS R Seymore Goes North, Tudor Village: a one shot Dir. Rhayne Vermette, deal, Dir. Rhayne Vermette Madison Thomas is a filmmaker from Winnipeg, Animation, 3:24, 2011 Animation, 5:15, 2012 Manitoba who enjoys telling very raw human (pg 20) (pg 22)
FEATURED FILMMAKERS FEATURED stories through unique genres. Being raised in a Métis household, storytelling was a huge part of her childhood and she found the natural extension into filmmaking in high school and SAM VINT has worked at honing her craft since. Thomas Sam Vint has worked in a variety of roles in film studied filmmaking at the University of Winnipeg, and TV including camera operator, researcher receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 2012. In 2011, she Backlanes, Dir. Madison and director. Over the years, Vint’s research has Thomas, Drama/Fiction, was accepted into Prague Film School’s summer made him extremely knowledgeable about many 12:34, 2013 (pg 13) program as the first Canadian to attend in five of Canada’s aboriginal issues. Most notable is the years and the first Aboriginal person to ever be NFB docudrama We Were Children, in which years Out of Reach, Dir. Madison accepted. While pursuing her career as a writer of his research culminated in this hard-hitting Thomas, Drama/Fiction, 10:22, 2013 (pg 19) and director, she also plans to continue gaining film about the experiences of two children that experience in all areas of filmmaking so as to Alice and Kevin, Dir. Sam attended Indian Residential Schools in Canada. Nooks and Crannies, Dir. become a well rounded storyteller. Vint, Documentary, 12:20, More recently Vint researched and coordinated Madison Thomas, Comedy/ 2014 (pg 12) The Medicine Line, a documentary program about Fiction, 1:24, 2014 (pg 19) a First Nations cameraman on a mission to Fleeting Encounters, Dir. discover what it means to be an Indian. Madison Thomas, Comedy/ Fiction, 8:03, 2014 (pg 14)
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JANELLE WOOKEY + JÉRÉMIE WOOKEY After years of refining her craft from childhood through adolescence and professional studies, Janelle Wookey’s big break came in 2008, when the independent documentary she produced with her brother and creative partner, Jérémie, Mémére Métisse, premiered on opening night of the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto and Mémére Métisse, Dir. Janelle aired on CBC, Radio-Canada and APTN. Along Wookey, Documentary, with her brother, Wookey has since produced 30:00, 2008 (pg 18) and directed short docs for CBC’s 8th Fire, a Canadian Screen Award-nominated cross- Treading Water, Dirs. platform project. After years of experience in Janelle Wookey + Jérémie Wookey, Documentary, the Radio-Canada Manitoba TV newsroom, 48:05, 2014 (pg 21) the Wookeys launched Wookey Films Inc., which is currently wrapping production on a one-hour documentary for APTN. Their second independent production, a half-hour doc for Radio-Canada, will air in 2015. FEATURED WORKS FEATURED FILMMAKERS FEATURED
WINNIPEG FILM GROUP INDIGENOUS FILMMAKERS DISTRIBUTION CATALOGUE FEATURED WORKS * This film was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film Group Winnipeg Film Group the by was commissioned This film * its Cinematheque of 25th anniversary the for Darryl Nepinak documents his mother as she teaches teaches Darryl as she documents his mother Nepinak make to how she learned how of stories him and shares about others teaching of way step by step A Bannock. it. make to Bannock is and how what Bigfoot Darryl Nepinak Dir. Comedy/Fiction,2007 13:00, the date, to documentary Bigfoot revealing the most In the is unleashed on creature this elusive of nature true for who gather and hunters protestors, tourists, of hordes extravaganza. hunt the annual Bigfoot Guide to How A Cinema Etiquette: Damien Ferland Dir. Comedy/Fiction, 2008 3:00, re- they as Players the How-To and Lowe Patrick Join host displayed often etiquette poor of examples various enact in theatres. movie 13 Backlanes Thomas Madison Dir. Drama/Fiction, 2013 12:34, lifelong five university graduation, their of the night On the wandering all-nighter one last pull to decide friends and fun of a night like seems What town. their lanes of back of fear the group’s by overshadowed is soon around goofing Chloe. friend ill their the mortality as well of as the future Bannock Darryl Nepinak Dir. 2006 7:00, Documentary,
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Images Festival Off Screen Good Morning Native America (Canada), 2014 Dir. Darryl Nepinak Comedy/Fiction, 5:08, 2006 imaginNATIVE (Canada), 2006 Filmmaker Darryl Nepinak directs an amateur film about a talk show host, with a set in his living room that runs on INDIAN his local cable television network.
Nuit Blanche Winnipeg I’m Métis (Canada), 2013 Dir. L. Christian Goulet Comedy/Fiction, 4:00, 2009 A resourceful young Métis man comes to the rescue of family, friends and strangers in this amusing short film. * This film is featured in the Winnipeg Film Group’s 2014 high Images Festival INDIAN school educational resource guide Finding Focus: Framing Off Screen Dir. Darryl Nepinak Canadian Métis and First Nations on Film (Canada), 2014 Comedy/Fiction, 1:40, 2008 imagineNATIVE At the Canadian National Spelling Bee speller Darryl (Canada), 2008 Nepinak stumbles upon a familiar word. * This film was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film Group for the 25th anniversary of its Cinematheque * This film is featured in the Winnipeg Film Group’s 2014 high school educational resource guide Finding Focus: Framing Canadian Métis and First Nations on Film IKWÉ FEATURED WORKS WTN — Iris & Nathan Short Shots Broadcast Dir. Arlea Ashcroft (Canada), 1998 Drama/Fiction, 12:00, 1996 A short drama about romance and identity, intended for urban adult audiences. Vancouver International IKWÉ Film Festival Dir. Caroline Monnet
FEATURED WORKS FEATURED APTN Broadcast Keeping Quiet (Canada), 2009 Experimental Documentary, 4:35, 2009 (Canada), 2012 Dir. Shane Belcourt IKWÉ is an experimental film that weaves the narrative Toronto International Drama/Fiction, 9:16, 2010 Film Festival of one woman’s (IKWÉ) intimate thoughts with the imagineNATIVE Bob tries out the world of classified dating to disastrous (Canada), 2009 teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a (Canada), 2010 surreal narrative experience that communicates the results. power of thoughts and personal reflection. * This film was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film Group Montreal First Kwoni through the Mosaic Women’s Film Project Peoples' Festival Dir. Caroline Monnet * This film is featured in the Winnipeg Film Group’s 2014 high (Canada), 2012 Documentary, 2:30, 2010 school educational resource guide Finding Focus: Framing Canadian Métis and First Nations on Film Kwoni tells the story of a young man who had to leave his remote community in northern Manitoba to access an education in the city of Winnipeg.
DOXA Documentary Land of Oil and Water Film Festival Dirs. Neil McArthur, Warren Cariou (Canada), 2010 Documentary, 43:25, 2009 imagineNATIVE This sensitive and nuanced documentary follows the journey (Canada), 2009 of Warren Cariou, a writer from Northern Saskatchewan, who learns that oil companies from Alberta are expanding into his homeland.
WINNIPEG FILM GROUP INDIGENOUS FILMMAKERS DISTRIBUTION CATALOGUE FEATURED WORKS victim Out of Reach Reach Out of Thomas Madison Dir. Drama/Fiction,2013 10:22, in her herself Carmen has locked reasons, unknown For boyfriend and her friends her parents, Her apartment. the find Carmen must but leave to her persuade tryall to own. on her leave to strength OK, Now What? What? Now OK, Jeff Bruyere Dir. 2008 Drama/Fiction, 2:00, when stroll an evening for is out guy happy-go-lucky A win? the good guy will or evil prevail Will finds him. trouble Winnipeg Film Group the by was commissioned This film * its Cinematheque of 25th anniversary the for Overburden Cariou Warren Neil McArthur, Dirs. 2009 14:57, Documentary, northern of the muskeg and woods the Underneath fifteen oil, of two trillion barrels Alberta lie roughly times more reserves known and six world’s the of percent also The oil fields are Arabia. Saudi left in what’s than Fort two small aboriginal communities, the homeland of Chipewyan. and Fort Mackay high2014 Winnipeg Film Group’s in the featured This film is * Framing guide Finding Focus: school educational resource Nations on Film and First Métis Canadian 19 Bum Indian My Barber Kerry Dir. 2007 4:45, Documentary, fall we all how of examination humorous The film is a sometimes. prejudice racial to Nooksand Crannies Madison Thomas Dir. Comedy/Fiction,2014 1:24, rope leading to a attached finds a magical bike woman A and everywhere. nowhere to
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Winnipeg Film Group acknowledges the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council. The support of the Winnipeg Foundation for
TUDOR VILLAGE the development of this catalogue is also acknowledged.
Australian International Tudor Village: a one shot deal Experimental Film Festival Dir. Rhayne Vermette (Australia), 2013 Animation, 5:15, 2012 WNDX Festival of In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the Moving Image city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker (Canada), 2012 does his best to interrupt their trajectory and entice The Winnipeg Film Group is a charitable, artist run centre * Best Prairie Work Prize everyone to return. dedicated to promoting the art of cinema. * This film was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film Group through the Mosaic Women’s Film Project www.winnipegfilmgroup.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ottawa International Two Scoops Animation Festival Dir. Jackie Traverse (Canada), 2013 Animated Documentary, 2:55, 2008 CBC Canadian Hand-drawn illustrations animate this touching personal Reflections Broadcast story about the ‘60s scoop of Aboriginal children into the (Canada), 2012 Canadian child-welfare system. * This film is featured in the Winnipeg Film Group’s 2014 high school educational resource guide Finding Focus: Framing FEATURED WORKS FEATURED Canadian Métis and First Nations on Film
Cinéfest Sudbury Véronique à vélo International Film Festival Dirs. Chrystene Ells, Berny Hi (Canada), 2011 Experimental/Fiction, 9:49, 2011 Véronique bicycles through a looking glass, encountering surreal characters and schisms in reality and time.
St. John's Internatianal Warchild Women's Film Festival Dir. Caroline Monnet (Canada), 2011 Experimental Documentary, 5:40, 2010 Toronto International On a solitary portage between the barren wilderness and Film Festival a desolate city, a young man reflects on his troubled past (Canada), 2010 and hopeful future.
Berlin International Zwei Indianer Aus Winnipeg Film Festival — Berlinale Dir. Darryl Nepinak (Germany), 2009 Comedy/Fiction, 2:40, 2008 imagineNATIVE Two ersatz Indian warriors chase a beautiful Indian (Canada), 2008 maiden through the streets of Winnipeg but she loves Chief Big Bear. Who is the hunter, and who the hunted in this tableaux? Based on the 1964 German song, Zwei Indianer Aus Winnipeg, our heroes are in for a surprise.
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