2016 Dawson City International Short Film Festival

SATURDAY MARCH 26 FIRST EYES 4PM at Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, Front and York Mia’ Amanda Strong & Bracken Hanuse Corlett BC, 8m, ani A young Indigenous female street artist named Mia’ walks through the city streets painting scenes rooted in the supernatural history of her people. She has not heard the stories from her Elders lips, but has found her own methods to rediscover them. Clouds Over Autumn Trevor Mack, BC, 15m, dra A brother and sister’s carefree childhood in a Native American community is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Canadian residential school in the early 1970s. Uulx – The Scratcher Banchi Hanuse, BC, 6 min Drama In a stark and stunning frozen remote landscape, an unlikely encounter between hunter and the hunted unfolds. But which is which? Handcrafted Hopedale Jenn Brown & Mitchell Aggek NL. 6m, doc If you want to find world-class artisans, the small northern Labrador community of Hopedale offers you some of the best. Created through the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival’s FRAMED film education series, in partnership with the Nunatsiavut government, this film focuses on three prominent local craftspeopletwo carvers and one traditional sewist. 16

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