Archive: Year 2017
REFLECTIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY
THIS RIVER
Directors
Erika MacPherson
Katherena Vermette
Producer
Alicia Smith
Cinematographer
Iris Ng
Sound
Anita Lubosch
Contact
2016
Canada
16 min
Color
Muddy and long, Winnipeg’s Red River holds dark secrets. When the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine was pulled from the waters wrapped in a rubbish bag in 2014, a group of volunteers established Drag the Red, a grassroots initiative to trawl the river in search of evidence of other missing Indigenous women.
Director
Katherena Vermette born to a Métis father and a Mennonite mother, Katherena Vermette grew up in Winnipeg’s predominantly Indigenous North End. “I spent years trying to run away… before I realized there was no other place I wanted to be—or could be, really,” she said in a 2013 interview. North End Love Songs, her first poetry collection, won a 2013 Governor General’s Award, and The Break, her first novel, won a Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature.
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FIVE ANGELS
LA TONSURE
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Note on Multitude
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SIRMILIK
SNARE
The Agreement
THE EUROPEAN SHOWERBATH
THE LAWES OF THE MARCHES
THE LION AND THE UNICORN
THE RENAMING OF PKOLS
TIME AND THE WAVE
WAPAWEKKA
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WHOSE FLAG IS IT?
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