Toronto, ON, Canada

Year of Production: 2009

Country: Canada

one camera, one take, closing credit song for the feature film Tkaronto

Sometimes there are true stories that you don't want to believe. Based on a true story from the city every Canadian loves to hate, "Pookums" is the re-telling of a dog sitting gone wrong. Sometimes all you can say is, well, I guess that's what life is like in the big city.

Filmmaker: Shane Belcourt & Duane Murray

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You ever want to hire a real-life soundtrack to follow you about? The Squeeze Box is a film-noir love poem about a hitman that hires a mute accordion player to follow him around and be his real-life soundtrack.

Filmmaker: Shane Belcourt & Duane Murray

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Demonstration of Indianness #31 is a short experimental film based on old home movies that the artist's grandfather shot in the 50's. The film is as much a portrait of a struggle and a declaration of identity, as it is a questioning into the history of documentation and anthropology.

Filmmaker: Adam Garnet Jones

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And Native Land explores National Identity in the tense atmosphere around Six Nations / Caledonia. What does it mean to be Canadian? What does it mean to be Native? Is it possible to be both?

Filmmaker: Miles Turner

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www.7thgen.org

Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

In this short video based on a traditional story, Skywoman returns to earth, only to discover that humans have wreaked havoc on the environment, making our future dangerously unstable.

Filmmaker: Kate Brascoupe

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www.7thgen.org

Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

An ambitious reporter is sent to interview an Indigenous elder to get some "real poetic and stoic stuff" for coverage of a conference on the environment. What she finds is a reminder that she didn't realize she needed to hear.

Filmmaker: John Hupfield

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www.7thgen.org

In My Staus Card, Cheyenne Redman Gervais takes a long hard look at everyone's favourite piece of plastic...

Filmmaker: Cheyenne Redman Gervais

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www.7thgen.org

Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

Year of Production: 2006

Combining elements of military life with street ball, Gervais creates a meshed reality where life is a proving ground and the only path to success is through grit, self resolve, and a smooth jump shot.

Filmmaker: Cheyenne Redman Gervais

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www.7thgen.org

They’ve taken our homes, our land, and now they’re after our blood...

Filmmaker: Michael Crawford

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ajones@nativechild.org

Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

Year of Production: 2007

Country: Canada

A short film about a young man living in downtown Toronto, and the pressures of his world.

Filmmaker: Brad Nolan

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ajones@nativechild.org

Producer's Name: 7th Generation Image Makers

Year of Production: 2005

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Clear Cut is a deeply personal found-footage reflection on mixed race identity. John Hupfield is Anishnawbe from Wasauksing First Nation on Perry Island. Clear Cut is his first video.

Filmmaker: John Hupfield

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z_branigan@hotmail.com

Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

You ever want to hire a real-life soundtrack to follow you about? The Squeeze Box is a film-noir love poem about a hitman that hires a mute accordion player to follow him around and be his real-life soundtrack.

Filmmaker: Shane Belcourt & Duane Murray

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Sometimes there are true stories that you don't want to believe. Based on a true story from the city every Canadian loves to hate, "Pookums" is the re-telling of a dog sitting gone wrong. Sometimes all you can say is, well, I guess that's what life is like in the big city.

Filmmaker: Shane Belcourt & Duane Murray