youth

This was a super short movie we made with Haida teens during a Teen Night at the Youth Center.

Filmmaker: Ken Leslie

Filmmaker Contact:

http://haidawood.blogspot.com/

Producer's Name: Haidawood

Year of Production: 2007

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This movie was made as part of the Haidawood Media Project over a two week period in the summer of 2007. Haidawood aims to make short stop motion animated movies with the help of Haida youth, artists, and language teachers, to help promote and teach the Haida language.

Filmmaker: Ken Leslie

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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

Filmmaker Contact:

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

Filmmaker Contact:

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

Filmmaker Contact:

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

Filmmaker Contact:

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

Filmmaker Contact:

www.7thgen.org

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

Filmmaker: Michael Crawford

Filmmaker Contact:

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

Filmmaker Contact:

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

Filmmaker Contact:

z_branigan@hotmail.com

Producer's Name: 7th Generation image Makers

Inuit, Metis, and First Nation Youth prevent violence and promote healthy equal relationships.

Filmmaker Contact:

www.loveyougive.org info@loveyougive.org

Year of Production: 2009

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Minwaashin Lodge - Aboriginal Women's Support Centre

This is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol, he is trying to put the reality and the past behind, but the past keeps hunting him. One day he looses control of himself and starts beating a man who's walking on a street beside his house. Because of his violent act his been sentenced to go to an outpost camp for two months, a camp where a hunter is waiting for him.

407, Artcirq, Igloolik Isuma, NITV productions 2006, Producer Guillaume Saladin, Director Bruce Haulli. Inuktut w/English s-t.