Author: Amye Annett
Company: imagineNATIVE

ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival – Films

** The films in yellow are part of the films Jacquie screened in her communities. They are already compress in 12 Mb and transferred in 3 eurekas

| Film Title | Director | Contact | Time | Year | Story

1

Eggs Instead

Lena Recollet

4Directions Entertainment
172 Roselawn Ave.
Toronto, ON M4R 1E6
T 416.519.0412
E lena3029@hotmail.com

2:32

2006
Canada

This short drama perfectly balances dark humour and poignant insight as it explores a young woman's last thoughts.

2

Death by Vibration

Ehren Bear Thomas

5 Elm St.
Ottawa, ON K1R 6M9
T 613.236.5673
E thebearwitness@gmail.com

5:47

Canada 2006

This lyrical experimental piece incorporates Super8, 35mm and scratch animation to express the loneliness of a cold winter's day with music by Métis musician Meash Jerre.

3

Mars-Womb Man

James Diamond

Vtape
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 351 1317
E wandav@vtape.org

11:30

Canada 2006

Mars-Womb-Man is a companion to Diamond's earlier film, The Man From Venus. In this, his most recent work, the artist finds answers for some of his old questions as he explodes binary concepts of man, woman, mother, and father.

4

Women in Canada: A Trilogy

Marnie Parrell

Vtape
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 351 1317
E wandav@vtape.org 

marnieparrell@hotmail.com

12:08

Canada
2005

Women in Canada is a grotesquely funny and conceptually rich take on narratives of Canadian “nation-building.” With a unique treatment of sound and image, Parrell chronicles the stories of three diverse early Canadian women, capturing the pain, drudgery, hopelessness that characterized the lives of women in Canada.

5

Hawaikii

Michael Jonathon

New Zealand Film Commission
Level 2/119 Jervois Quay
Wellington, New Zealand
T 0064 21 810484
E kate@nzfilm.co.nz
hakaboyfilms@gmail.com

11:00

New Zeland

This stunning film resonates with the bewilderment of a young Maori girl's first day of school and the strength of her bond to her culture and father.

6

Conversion

Nanobah Becker

275 Classon Ave. #303
Brooklyn, NY 11205 USA
T 646 321 2313
E nanobah_becker@hotmail.com

9:07

USA 2006

A visit by Christian missionaries has devastating consequences for a family in a remote corner of the Navajo reservation in the 1950s.

7

133 Skyway

Randy Redroad

Big Soul Productions
401 Richmond St. W. 
Suite B102
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 598 7762
E laura@bigsoul.net
randyredroad@gmail.com

21:46

Canada 2006

A young musician living on the street (Derek Miller in his acting debut) is fading fast and wants to play his guitar one last time. His only allies are a troubled friend and a lonely pawn-shop employee.

8

One Eyed Dogs Are Free

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Vtape
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 351 1317
E wandav@vtape.org

¬zhopkins@telus.net

15:30

Canada 2005

When a ship is lost at sea in the remote community of Waglisla (Bella Bella) a young man must come to terms with the death of his father. A visually stunning portrait of the impact of grief on a small community.

9

Coureurs de Nuit (Night Hunters)

Shanouk Newashish

Wapikoni Mobile
Marie-Claude Desrochers
3155 Ch. Cote de Liesse
St. Laurent, QC H4N 2N4
T 514 283 3542
E mcdesrochers@onf.ca

nimbus_20002@hotmail.com

2:33

Canada 2005

In this exceptionally beautiful experimental documentary, a group of Indigenous people are driven by unseen forces to go running at night. Their struggle with the police - and their determination as a community - become a powerful metaphor for the survival of a people.

10

Talkabout Walkabout

Gary Cooper

Janine Boreland
157 Edmund St.
Beaconsfield, WA
Australia 6162
T 61 8 0433 5240
E Janineboreland@hotmail.com
janine.boreland@gmail.com

8:33

Australia
2005

What is the “walkabout” all about? A Wongutha woman  tells the story of her father and sheds light on one of 
Indigenous Australia’s most sacred acts.

11

Jumalan Morsian (A Bride of the Seventh Heaven)

Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio

Millenium Film Ltd.
Koskikartanontie 12
75530 Nurmes
Finland
T 358 13 5110 100
millennium@millenniumfilm.fi
+358505292317.
lapsui@mail.ru

85:00

Finland Russia
2003

This starkly beautiful drama gently unfolds to tell the story of a woman who is betrothed at birth to Num, the high god of the Nenets. Num's bride tells her story in a series of flashbacks to a young blind girl. The story is based on an elder's tale and an experience Anastasia Lapsui had as a child — she experienced temporary blindness on the day after she was taken away to residential school. Shot in Anastasia Lapsui's homeland in northwest Siberia.

12

Waban-Aki: People From Where the Sun Rises

Alanis Obomsawin

National Film Board of Canada
3155 Cote de Liesse
St. Laurent, QC H4N 2N4
T 514 283 9617
E festivals@nfb.ca

104:02

Canada
2006

In what may be her most personal film, famed director Alanis Obomsawin returns to her roots with this intimate look into the Abenaki culture. Through a series of interviews, Obomsawin crafts a vivid portrait of a people: from a young artist determined to continue the tradition of birch bark canoes to the damning legacy of the Indian Act. Obomsawin traces the roots of her people from modern New England, through the Maritimes and to Québec. A film of history and hope, Waban-Aki is a moving addition to the legacy of one of Canada's greatest filmmakers.

13

Muffins for Granny

Nadia McLaren

Feather Productions
37 Brookfield Street Apt. 2
Toronto, ON M6J 3A8
T 416 516 2196
E nadmcl@yahoo.com

88:00

Canada 2006

Muffins for Granny is a remarkably layered, emotionally complex story of personal and cultural survival. McLaren tells the story of her own grandmother by combining precious home movie fragments with the stories of seven elders dramatically affected by their experiences in residential school. McLaren uses animation with a painterly visual approach to move the audience between the darkness of memory and the reality that these charismatic survivors live in today.

14

Mohawk Girls

Tracey Deer

Rezolution Pictures Productions
440 Villenene St. W
Montreal, QC H2V 2R6
T 514 296 3363
E camilablos@hotmail.com
doedeer22@aol.com 
traceydeer@mohawkprincess.com

64:00

Canada 2005

DOC

Being a teenager is hard enough. Mohawk 
Girls reveals the additional pressures of  being a teenage girl on the Kahnawake  reserve outside Montreal. Questions of  identity, community and opportunity are  confronted by the film’s three very different, but equally compelling, subjects. The  director also tells her own story, creating 
an intimate portrait of growing up Native in  modern Canada.

15

Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros)

Kanakan Balintagos

ufo  Pictures
18 Long Beach St., Merville
Paranaque city, Metro Manila
Phillipines 1700
T 632 824 9873
E ufo_pictures@yahoo.com

kanakanbalintagos@yahoo.com

102

Philippines 2004

Comedy 

Picture

Gay, pre-teen Maxi is deeply and uncomplainingly devoted to his family of petty thieves. He cleans house for them, cooks for them, washes their underwear, mends their tattered jeans, and when necessary, covers their tracks. His world revolves around his father and his two brothers, who love and protect him in return.

16

5^th World

Larry Blackhorse Lowe

Ernie Quiroz
4401 W. Diana Ave.
Glendale AZ 85302 USA
T 602 405 4220
E qbrick1138@hotmail.com

75:00

USA

2005

Drama

Two young Navajos hitch hike home through the Navajo reservation, falling in love along the way.

17

Meskanahk (My Path)

Kevin Burton

2201 – 2020 Hard St.
Vancouver, BC V6G 1J3
T 604 252 9551
E mahkos@telus.net
kevvek@hotmail.com, mahkos@gmail.com

10:00

Canada

Video Narrative

A diaristic account of a young man's attempt to reconcile the questions, regrets and fears that mark the passage from his childhood on a Cree reserve to his life in the city.

18

Ahoy! Metis!

Marnie Parrell

Cake House Productions
685 Manning Ave.
Toronto, ON M6G 2W3
T 647 435 9060
E marnieparrell@hotmail.com

5:00

Canada 2005

A “Canadian Heritage moment” where fact 
and fiction meld creating a history that questions what the present pretends to know.

19

Wirriya Small Boy

Beck Cole

7 Rounsvell St
Alice Springs, NT 0871 Australia
T 08 8952 0890
Beckcole1@bigpond.com

20

Nothing Ever Happened Here

Derek Miller

InspireMedia
1739 33 Ave. S. W.
Calgary AB, T2T 1Y8
T 403 209 0200
E spencer.estabrooks@gmail.com
derekmillermusic@hotmail.com

21

Wapos Bay “There’s No “I” in Hockey

Dennis Jackson

Wapos Bay Productions Inc.
#1 – 401 45^th St. W
Saskatoon, SK S7K 4J4
T 306 955 0036
E dennis.jackson@sasktel.net

23:54

Canada 2006

In this episode of the acclaimed stop-motion animated series, young T-Bear and Raven must overcome their fears with the help of their parents if they want to make the celebrations for National Aboriginal Day.

22

Green Bush

Warwick Thornton

Film Depot
Suite 44/61 Marlborough St
Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Australia
T 6 12 8394 9900
E kath@filmdepot.com.au
 info@filmdepot.com.au

14:00

Canada 2005

video

Juno Award winner Derek Miller spends a 
day hanging out with a former bank robber 
in this surprising and revealing short.

23

Su Naa (My Big Brother)

Helen Haig-Brown

676 Keefer St.
Vancouver, BC
elagi@telus.net

24

Uranium Womyn 238

LisaNa M. Macias Red Bear

ICU Productions
1743 N 600 E
No Ogden, UT 84414 USA
T 303 818 3770
E lredbear@earthlink.net
lredbear@msn.com

25

A horse called Memory

Jude Norris

Vtape
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 351 1317
E wandav@vtape.org

15:25

Canada 2004

Documentation of painted horses and  voicemail create a personal glimpse into the  social life of part of the Cree community in 
Edmonton.

26

The Ghost Rider

Vincent Blackhawk Aamodt

Paha Sapa Filmworks
3931 Leigh Ave.
San Jose, CA 95124 USA
T 917 806 2828
E toblackhawk@earthlink.net
hawk@blackhawkcontent.com

27

Basal Banar

Kanakan Balintagos

Indigenous Pelik
329-A Sta. Teresita St.
Manila, Palawan 77071 Philippines
T 632 735 9135
E kanakanbalintagos@yahoo.com

28

Pear ta Ma ŒOn Maf / The Land Has Eyes

Vilsoni Hereniko

Te Maka Productions
6105A Summer St
Honolulu, HI 96821 USA
T 808 396 8353
E vhmovies@aol.com

29

Swallow

Ariel Lighteningchild

Groupe Intervention Video
4001 Berri #105
Montreal, QC H2L 4H2
T 514 271 5506
E info@givideo.org
giv@videotron.ca

30

Memory

Cedar Sherbert

1288 West 23^rd St. #7
Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA
T 213 749 8921
E iipay@hotmail.com

31

Might of the Starchaser

Joseph Lazare

Big Soul Productions
401 Richmond St. W Suite B102
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 598 7762
E laura@bigsoul.net
funker@hotmail.com

32

Wagon Burner

Terrance Houle

902 – 20 Ave. NW
Calgary, AB T2M 1E5
T 403 277 4393
E terrancehoule@hotmail.com
terrancehouleart@yahoo.com

33

Little Gold Cowboy

Michael Reihana

New Zealand Film Comm.
Level 2 – 119 Jervois Quay
PO Box 11 546
Wellington, New Zealand
T 64 4382 7680
E info@nzfilm.co.nz
michael.reihana@gmail.com

34

Pookums

Shane Belcourt

The Breath Films
8 Aldwych Ave
Toronto, ON M4J 1X2
T 416 516 3539
shane@thebreath.com

10:43

Canada 2006

A street musician is offered the chance to make a quick bit of cash, and all she has to do is look after one little dog — what could go wrong? Inspired by a true story, the film proves that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.

35

Cloudbreaker

Adam Garnet Jones

Vtape
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 351 1317
E wandav@vtape.org
garnetfilm@gmail.com

14:55

Canada
2006

A young boy who believes he has the ability to move clouds puts his powers to a dangerous test in this magical short drama.

36

Divided by Zero

Danis Goulet

Vtape
401 Richmond St. W. Suite 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 351 1317
E wandav@vtape.org
dgoulet@imaginenative.org

16:17

Canada 2006

A teenage girl builds a tipi in her bedroom in an attempt to re-assert her "cultural authenticity."

37

No. 2

Tao Fraser

New Zealand Film Comm.
Level 2 – 119 Jervois Quay
PO Box 11 546
Wellington, New Zealand
T 64 4382 7680
E info@nzfilm.co.nz

93:00

New Zealand 2005

Overcome with the nostalgia, widowed matriarch Nana Maria commands her discordant family to gather for an impromptu Fijian pig roast to name her successor. As the clan reluctantly turns up, old wounds resurface and the day unravels into chaos. In this warm comedic drama, Fraser deftly guides a stellar ensemble cast and illustrates an endearing, universal portrait of a family trying to pull itself together before it falls apart.

38 | Squeegee Bandir | Sandor Lau | Sandor Lau Creations 6/25 Sandringham Rd. Kingsland, Auckland 1003 New Zealand T 64 9 846 7569 E sandor_lau@yahoo.com | | | sandor.lau@gmail.com

39

My Brother Vinnie

Steven McGregor

Australian Film Commission
Level 5, 150 William St.
Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011 Australia
T 02 9321 6499
E s.riley@afc.gov.au

sally.riley@afc.gov.au

24:24

Australia
2006

In this intimate and charming documentary, Aaron Pedersen, a successful actor in Australia, tells how he came to take responsibility for the care of his brother Vinnie, who has cerebral palsy and mild intellectual disabilities. Recounting the brothers' past history of trauma, alcoholism and domestic abuse, this touching portrait reveals how challenges are often life's greatest gifts.

40

Trespassing

Carlos Demenezes

Red Umbrella Productions
1124 La Cienega Blvd. 306
Los Angeles, CA 90060 USA
T 310 652 6210
E redumbrella@sbcglobal.net

116:30

USA 2005

In a year that has seen documentaries such as An Inconvenient Truth and Who Killed the Electric Car? spark outrage among viewers, Trespassing may be the most effective and emotional film about the environmental legacy of the 20th century yet. Tracing the history of the nuclear age and its devastating effects on Native American lands and people, the movie is a compelling portrait of resistance against all odds. A dedicated group of protestors, elders and Indigenous leaders risk arrest, eviction and relocation in order to preserve sacred lands, along with the water and air we all share. From nuclear bomb tests that painfully pockmark the ground to the waste their manufacture creates, Trespassing is a document of humanity's historical nuclear folly — and an urgent and vital call to action.

41

Trudell

Heather Rae

William Morris Agency
1 William Morris Place
Beverly Hills CA 90212 USA
T 310 859 4000

85:00

USA 2005

Twelve years in the making, this is a beautifully woven impressionistic portrait of one  of the most iconic activists in recent history, poet-prophet-activist, John Trudell.  A 
participant in the takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Chairman of the American Indian  Movement through most of the turbulent seventies, subject of one of the longest FBI files 
in history (over 17,000 pages), Trudell’s life is a literal and metaphorical mirror of modern  Native American history. After a suspicious fire kills his pregnant wife, mother-in-law  and three children, Trudell leaves politics but continues to advocate for active personal  responsibility to the earth and all its inhabitants.

42

Tama Tu

Taika Waititi

New Zealand Film Comm.
Level 2 – 119 Jervois Quay
PO Box 11 546
Wellington, New Zealand
T 64 4382 7680
E info@nzfilm.co.nz

happytaika@gmail.com

18:00

New Zealand 2004

Poetically spare and powerful, Tama 
Tu won special jury mentions at both 
Sundance and Berlin. During World War II, 
six soldiers of the 28th Maori battalion sit 
out the night waiting. Forced into silence 
to stay alive, they keep up their spirits 
by miming jokes to one another through 
subtle, yet hilarious, gestures, exemplifying 
how humanity shines even in adverse 
circumstances.

43

Metrosexual Indian

Terrance Houle

902 – 20 Ave. NW
Calgary, AB T2M 1E5
T 403 277 4393
E terrancehoule@hotmail.com

4:00

Canada 2005

Slick and sexy, with a coffee in one hand 
and a cell phone in the other. It’s time to 
meet the Metrosexual Indian.

44

Goodnight Irene

Sterlin Harjo

indiOn Films
2727 E 21^st St. Ste 100
Tulsa, OK 74114 USA
T 918 749 6335
sterlinharjo@gmail.com

14:00

USA 2004

A poignant moment is shared between 
strangers while spending an afternoon in a 
hospital waiting room.

45

The Squeeze Box

Shane Belcourt

The Breath Films
8 Aldwych Ave
Toronto, ON M4J 1X2
T 416 516 3539
shane@thebreath.com

11:50

Canada 2005

A dark and funny film-noir love poem about 
a hitman who hires a shy accordion player 
to play for each new “assignment.”

46

The Djarn Djarns

Wayne Blair

RB Films
Level 1, 6a Nelson St. Annandale
Sydney NSA 2038 Australia
T 6 12 9517 9899
E kylie@rbfilms.com.au
wayne@belvoir.com.au

47

Group of Seven Inches

Kent Monkman

Urban Nation
216A Christie St.
Toronto, ON M6G 3B7
T 416 516 6251
kent@urbannation.com

48

Kinnaq Nigaqtuqtuaq (Snaring Madman)

Andrew MacLean

Kiuguya Productions
171 Russel St., 1R
Brooklyn, NY 11222 USA
T 917 743 5443
E okpeaha@yahoo.com

12:45

USA
2005

A crazed man hunts a woman in Manhattan 
in this darkly funny and unsettling short.

49

Kerosene Creek

Michael Bennett

New Zealand Film Commission 
Level 2 – 119 Jervois Quay
PO Box 11 546
Wellington, New Zealand
T 64 4382 7680
E info@nzfilm.co.nz

13:00

Aotearoa/New Zealand
2004

A moving story of innocence lost, 
Kerosene Creek follows a young boy  and girl who tag along with their teenage 
siblings on a transformative trip to a  local swimming hole.

50

A Thousand Roads

Chris Eyre

National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)
Cultural Resources Center
Suitland, MD 20746 – 2863 USA
T 301 238 6624 x 6287
E smithpic@si.edu

51

Head Case

Jason Ryle

Vtape
401 Richmond St. W. Ste 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 351 1317
E wandav@vtape.org

52

Potato Man

Jason Friesen

Chasing Pictures
675 Salsbury Dr. Apt 2
Vancouver, BC V5L 3Z8
T 604 721 8765
E Jason@chasingpictures.com

53

From Cherry English

Jeff Barnaby

Tyloon Records
4930 Melrose, Apt #3
Montreal, QC H3X 3P5
T 514 482 5430
E mgegn@hotmail.com

54

504938C

Ervin Chartrand

Winnipeg Film Group
304 – 100 Arthur St
Winnipeg MB R3B 1H3
T 204 925 3452
E distribution@
winnipegfilmgroup.com

cooley_chartrand@hotmail.com

6:08

Canada 2005

Ervin Chartrand drew on his own experience to make  this short drama of a young man (Ryan Black) coming  to grips with the harsh challenges of his release from  prison.

55

Flat

Nanobah Becker

275 Classon Ave. #303
Brooklyn, NY 11205 USA
T 646 321 2313
E nanobah_becker
@hotmail.com

56

Sigwan

Alanis Obomsawin

Nation Film Board of Canada
3155 Cote de Liesse
St. Laurent QC H4N 2N4
T 514 283 9617
E festivals@nfb.ca

13:22

Canada 2005

Sigwan tells the story of a young girl who is comforted and counselled by the animals of the 
forest. Visually breathtaking, the film is a simple yet transformative parable of acceptance

57

13 Days Out

Rangitawaea Tiwai Reedy

New Zealand Film Commission 
Level 2 – 119 Jervois Quay
PO Box 11 546
Wellington, New Zealand
T 64 4382 7680
E info@nzfilm.co.nz

58

Al’Keme 1345

Shonie De La Rosa

Sheephead Films
PO Box 434
Kayenta, AZ 86033 USA
T 928 697 3033
E sheepheadfilms@yahoo.com

59

Beneath Clouds

Ivan Sen

700 Harris Street
Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia
T 02 8333 4153
E ivansen@bigpond.com

60

Boutique of the Damned

Bently Spang

Bently Spang Productions
721 N. 15^th St.
Billings, MT 59101 USA
T 406 252 8870
E bently@bresnan.net

61

Composure

Tazbah Chavez

Akatubi Entertainment
268 S. PaHa Lane
Bishop, CA 93514 USA
T 505 270 2121
E selkist@hotmail.com
tazbah@ucla.edu

62

Flat

Beck Cole

Australian Film Commission
Level 5, 150 William St.
Wolloomooloo, NSW 2011 Australia
T 02 9321 6499
E s.riley@afc.gov.au

7:50

USA 2004

A bittersweet tale of a woman sidetracked by a flat tire on the day of her boyfriend’s birthday.

63

Kikkik E1-472

Martin Kreelak

Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
331 Cooper St. Suite 301
Ottawa, ON K2P 0G5
T 613 235 1892
E info@inuitbroadcasting.ca

64

Me + D = Ahh

Gail Maurice

Assini Productions Inc.
141 Delaware Ave
Toronto, ON M6H 2T2
T 416 623 7477
E
gail@gailmaurice.com

65

Prayer for a Good Day

Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Vtape
401 Richmond St. W. Ste 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 351 1317
E wandav@vtape.org

66

Suckerfish

Lisa Jackson

1421 E. 14^th Ave.
Vancouver, BC V5N 2C7
T 604 715 5412
E lisa@lisajackson.ca

67

Two Cars, One Night

Taika Waititi

New Zealand Film Commission 
Level 2 – 119 Jervois Quay
PO Box 11 546
Wellington, New Zealand
T 64 4382 7680
E info@nzfilm.co.nz

68

Two Worlds Colliding

Tasha Hubbard

National Film Board of Canada
3155 Cote de Liesse
St. Laurent, QC H4N 2N4
T 514 283 9617
E festivals@nfb.ca
tahubbar@ucalgary.ca

69

The Shirt

Shelley Niro

Vtape
401 Richmond St. W. Ste 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T 416 351 1317
E wandav@vtape.org
shelleyniro@rogers.com