Encounter in Kitcisakik
Escale à Kitcisakik
Wapikoni's Friends
Mathieu Vachon
Canada
2009
51min
French, Algonquin
Wapikoni – Encounter in Kitcisakik documents a visit by the Wapikoni Mobile, the celebrated studio on wheels that for the past six years has travelled through Aboriginal communities in Quebec providing production training to youth. Viewers accompany the Wapikoni Mobile team and young Algonquin singers and filmmakers into a world steeped in history, where they discover a little-known reality, a space-time where the wild beauty of the landscape contrasts with human misery and decay, where self-destruction commingles with an irrepressible will to live. A film testifying to the resilience of First Nations youth and the transformative power of creation.
Projections:
Producer:
Lucille Veilleux
Manon Barbeau
Line Richard (NFB)
Editor:
Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer
Camera:
Julien Fontaine
Sound:
Simon Carpentier
Production info:
Productions Totam In co-production with The National Film Board of Canada (ONF)