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…
New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, NWT 2018 – 2022 https://vimeo.com/248477042 A collaborative project with Quiver Artist Collective*, Rebel Sister Productions and Shortworks Productions A companion piece to feature documentary project 500 Days in the Wild, a 5-year ecological and reconciliation pilgrimage of filmmaker Dianne Whelan as she travels the 24,000 km trail that links Atlantic, Arctic and…
13 min. 2016 There is an agreement from the province of Nova to bring Treaty Education to all schools in the province. In this video students document a week of special activities taking place in the school for Treaty Day. Treaty Day honours the nation-to-nation relationship formed between Indigenous nations and the Canadian government, as…
Forum, Screenings, Talks Cross Cultural Conversations brings Saskatchewan filmmakers Janine Windolph and Trudy Stewart to Nova Scotia to engage with Nova Scotia film and theatre artists, students and Indigenous communities to explore themes of reconciliation and how we can de-colonize our approach to sharing stories. Through discussion, artist presentations, screenings and interactive Forum Theatre, the…
multi-screen projection 2014 – 2015 Twenty years ago I began a six-year process of making a non-linear experimental narrative video called The Water’s Tale, an experimental feminist fairy tale. To mark the 20-year anniversary, I revisited the imagery and created a multi-screen video project piece. Haunting imagery of a woman submerged in the ocean, holding…
2015 AVGSAP is an on-line resource to support Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Trans Gendered, Trans Sexual, Queer, Questioning, 2-Spirited and Allies Youth (LGBTTQQ2SA) as well as educators and community partners. Students from across the region created a series of videos through a collaborative workshop process with theatre and media artists. A partnership with partnering with the Annapolis Valley…
Nova Scotia 2013 21 min. 2013 written and produced by Tara Lee Reddick & Ann Verrall directed by Ann Verrall Lauren has been working in the sex trade in Toronto. She suddenly returns to her small rural African Nova Scotian community after a five-year absence. Not even the funeral of her beloved grandmother had brought her…
