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What Walaa Wants

Christy Garland has directed award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary features and fiction shorts. Based in Toronto, she often co-produces with the Nordic countries. Distributed worldwide, Garland's films deliver strong dramatic development, poignant character transformation and universally felt themes.

Advocate

Rachel Leah Jones is a critically-acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on Israel/Palestine. She has a BA in Race, Class and Gender Studies, and a MFA in Documentary Media Arts. In addition to making her own films, Jones has produced extensively with others, and has been affiliated with progressive media outlets such as DEMOCRACY NOW! in New York.

Selected filmography: 
2011 - Gypsy Davy
2010 - Targeted Citizen
2002 - 500 Dunam to the Moon

Born in France, Philippe Bellaiche is an award-winning cinematographer. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière and the Sorbonne, Bellaiche, a cinematography lecturer and master-class instructor, received the Israel Cinema Arts Award in 2013.

Selected filmography: 
2016 - The Settlers
2011 - Gypsy Davy
2011 - The Flat

Alma

Katherine Nequado egy attikamek fiatal nő a kanadai Manawanból, Kanadából, aki első rövidfilmjét, a Wamint a Wapikoni audiovizuális workshop során készítette Montreálban. Ez az első élménye felkeltette érdeklődését a filmezés iránt, és tervez ez irányban továbbtanulni.

A röplabda gyógyító ereje

Alicia Mollen 1999. március 9-én született a kanadai La Romaine-ban, egy innu rezervátumban, most Sept-Îles-ben él. Első filmje, a Volleyball, egy személyes történet, melyet a Wapikoni civil szervezet támogatott.

Nitanishnak, a lányomnak

Melissa Mollen Dupuis az innu közösség tagja Ekuanitshitban, Quebec északkeleti részén. 2012-ben megalakította az Idle No More mozgalom quebeci csoportját (közösen Widia Larivière-rel). 2014-ben a Wapikoni bizottság elnöke lett. 2017-ben az Amnesty International kinevezte, a kanadai őslakosok mozgalmának másik öt tagjával együtt, a Lelkiismeret Nagykövetének.

Találkozás Kitcisakikban

Mathieu Vachon a kanadai Sept-Îles-ben született 1986-ban. Innu őslakosként az életét a város és a Maliotenam nevű rezervátum között töltötte. Első videóját, az Indian Time-ot a Wapikoni nevű civil szervezet támogatásával készítette 2014-ben. Azóta szerepelt az Innu Kikamu Fesztiválon és a Montréal First Peoples Fesztiválon. 2016-ban elkészítette második filmjét a Wapikonival, Loup garou címmel.

Apple

Katherine Nequado is a young Atikamekw woman from Manawan. She directed her first short, Wamin, during a Wapikoni audiovisual workshop in Montreal. This experience sparked her interest in cinema, and she plans to further study filmmaking.

Volleyball - Finding My Balance

Alicia Mollen was born in 1999, in the La Romaine Innu community, and now lives in Sept-Îles. Alicia's first film, Volleyball, is a personal story directed with Wapikoni.

Nitanish - To My Daughter

Melissa Mollen Dupuis is a member of the Innu community of Ekuanitshit on Quebec's Côte-Nord. In 2012 she created the Quebec branch of the Idle No More movement (with Widia Larivière). In 2014 Melissa became president of Wapikoni's Board, and in 2017 Amnesty International named her Ambassador of Conscience along with five other figures from Canada's First Peoples' movement and Alicia Keys.

Encounter in Kitcisakik

Mathieu Vachon was born in 1986, in Sept-Îles. As an Innu from Maliotenam, he spent his life between the town and the reserve. He directed his first video, Indian Time with Wapikoni in 2014. Since then he has participated in the Innu Nikamu Festival and Montréal First Peoples Festival. In 2016, Mathieu directed the video Loup Garou during his second participation with Wapikoni.

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