Kevin Burton, Cree filmmaker

Shane Belcourt is a writer-director from Toronto. Shane's debut feature film, 'Tkaronto', was the closing night screening at the 2007 ImagineNATIVE film festival. He was a 2007 Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab Participant, and is the 2007 IFC Mentorship Award winner with Rachel Fulford.… Read more

KEVIN LEE BURTON is Swampy Cree and originates from God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba. Kevin is a freelance editor, camera operator and short film director residing in Winnipeg. Kevin was awarded The Cynthia Lickers Sage Award for Emerging Talent at the ImagineNATIVE Film Festival for his short film 'Meskanahk' (My Path) in 2005.

Other films by Kevin include:

Listen to Métis artist, filmmaker and writer, Marnie Parrell, as she explains her work and the making of 'Women in Canada', and 'Ahoy! Métis!'

Listen to Lois Suluk-Locke speak about the particular style of throat singing from Arviat, Nunavut, the most southern Inuit hamlet located on the western shore of Hudson Bay. Arviat means the place of the bowhead whale.
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Listen to Stuart Myiow Jr., Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Traditional Council of Kahnawake, who actively opposes the land encroachment on Kahnawake territory. Stuart speaks about the steps that Canadians need to take before a genuine reconciliation can happen between the two societies.

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Listen to JANIE JAMIESON, a Mohawk woman from Six Nations Grand River Territory (Southern Ontario), and daughter of a Residential School victim.