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Best Director – American Indian Film Festival San Francisco 2017 Official Selection – Hot Docs 2017 The Road Forward, a musical documentary by Marie Clements, connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s—with the powerful momentum of First Nations activism today. Clements paints an electrifying picture of how a tiny movement, the Native Brotherhood and Native Sisterhood, became a powerful voice for social, political and legal advocacy, eventually effecting profound change at the national level. The Road Forward’s stunningly shot musical sequences, performed by an ensemble of some of Canada’s finest vocalists and musicians, seamlessly connect past and present with soaring vocals, blues, rock, and traditional beats. The Road Forward is a rousing tribute to the fighters for First Nations rights, a soul-resounding historical experience, and a visceral call to action.
Territoire Ishkueu Territoire Femme
This documentary feature 8 women storytellers, writers, and poets in live performances at the Atalukan Storytelling Festival in Mashteuiatsh (Pointe-Bleue). Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau tells us all about of her relationship with The Bear, her paintings and sculptures are part of the film. Josephine Bacon, Natasha Kanape Fontaine deliver their vision of the world, Marie-Andrée Gill convey forcefully her very beautiful and raspy poems. Sonia Robertson, director of the Festival, Alice Germain, adventure guide and Telesh Bégin, shaman, make us discover their territory. Kathia Rock tells us how the priests mingled with everything and offer us beautiful Innu and French songs. Claude Hamel is a native of Abitibi and a resident of the Eastern Townships since 2006. Initiated to the art of urban storytelling in 1981 with the Wondeur Brass collective, she added traditional tales to her practice when she was involved in Productions Coeur.com, a group of artists and therapists where she co-directed workshops, from 1998 to 2008, in France, Belgium, Egypt and Quebec. Claude has been writing, exploring and presenting since then traditional and historical tales as well as life stories based on her personal experience that has led her from film sets to mythical places around the world. A soundman in documentary cinema from 1986 to 2012, Claude directed several short films, and in 2018 a feature film: Territory Ishkueu Territory Woman with 8 women writers, storytellers, authors, Quebec native poets, in collaboration with the O.N.F. and a PRIM Production Réalisations Indépendantes de Montréal grant. The storyteller has a thousand hats signed eight […]