Keeping their Spirits Alive: in partnership with Potlotek Eduction Keeping their Spirits Alive was a production program for girls and young women at Potlotek Education in which the participants developed and created their own media pieces for Mniku Radio, found on the dial at 93.7 FM CIYR. This series of short videos include stories about…
Nova Scotia 2017 The River & the Drum 13:25 min. In Millbrook First Nation Nova Scotia, a youth drumming group, Samqwan Boyz, share what drumming means to them. Samqwan means water in Mi’kmaq. Through conversations with Elders Doreen Bernard and Jean Martin, this community collaboration project explores the connection between drumming and water. A project…
11:23 min. 2016 created by Ma’kit Poulette, students of We’koqom’a Mi’kmaw School, Rob Smith, Lindsay Dobbin and Ann Verrall produced by Ann Verrall Elder Ma’kit Poulette shares a story with students at the We’koqom’a Mi’kmaw School in Waycobah Cape Breton about her experience at the Shubenacadie Residential School. When she arrived at age four her…
Hiking the Great Trail, Canada 2015 – 2021 500 Days in the Wild co-producer, co-director, cinematographer Feature documentary in production 2015 to 2020 & Series of short films An epic journey, an epic story. 500 Days began in St. John’s Newfoundland July 1, 2015 when indie BC filmmaker Dianne Whelan set off on a 5-year pilgrimage across…
