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Kuessipan
''Kuessipan'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Myriam Verreault and released in 2019. An adaptation of Naomi Fontaine's eponymous novel, the script was co-written by Fontaine and Verreault. Its plot centres on Mikuan ( Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao) and Shaniss ( Yamie Grégoire), two young Innu women in Uashat-Maliotenam, whose friendship is strained when Mikuan falls in love with a white man ( Étienne Galloy) and plans to move away. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was a critical success, garnering praise for its cast and portrayal of Indigenous lives. Its theatrical release on October 4, 2019. Plot The film centers on Mikuan and Shaniss, two childhood friends who grow up together in Uashat. Their lives diverge during high school, when Shaniss drops out and has a baby with her abusive boyfriend Greg while Mikuan plans to move away from the reservation and attend university in Quebec City so that she can follow her dream of becoming a w ...
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Naomi Fontaine
Naomi Fontaine is a Canadian writer from Quebec, noted as one of the most prominent First Nations writers in contemporary francophone Canadian literature. She is a member of the Innu nation. Biography A member of the Innu nation from Uashat, Quebec, she studied education at the Université Laval."Naomi Fontaine revient aux sources avec Manikanetish"
. '' Les malins'', September 23, 2017.
Her 2011 debut novel ''Kuessipan'' received an honourable mention from the

8th Canadian Screen Awards
The 8th annual Canadian Screen Awards were originally scheduled to be held on March 29, 2020, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2019."Alex Trebek among special 2020 Canadian Academy award recipients"
'''', December 5, 2019.
As in prior years, the awards in many of the technical and craft categories would have been presented in a series of advance Canadian Screen Week galas in the week before the main ceremony. Nominations were announced by the

Nicolas Canniccioni
Nicolas Canniccioni is a Canadian cinematographer. In 2009, Canniccioni served as additional director of photography for Xavier Dolan's ''I Killed My Mother''. In 2015, he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary with Jean-Pierre St-Louis for '' Where I'm From''. With director Simon Lavoie, he began shooting the film ''The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches'' on 4 September 2016 in Montreal and the Laurentides. Canniccioni and Lavoie chose to shoot in black and white, with Canniccioni employing a Red Epic Monochrome 6K camera. He was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography. At the 7th Canadian Screen Awards, Canniccioni was nominated for Best Cinematography in a Documentary for '' First Stripes''. He shot '' Kuessipan'' (2019) in Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam and Sept-ÃŽles, Quebec. For ''Kuessipan'', he was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards. Filmography His films incl ...
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Myriam Verreault
Myriam Verreault is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.Éric Moreault"Myriam Verreault: Construire un pont entre les nations" ''Le Soleil'', September 27, 2019. She is most noted for her 2019 film ''Kuessipan'', for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, and two Prix Iris nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards. Her other works have included the documentary film '' West of Pluto (À l'ouest de Pluton)'' and the web documentary '' My Tribe Is My Life (Ma tribu c'est ma vie)'', as well as an editing credit on Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier's 2013 documentary film ''Québékoisie''. In 2020 she was the patron and curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in Rivière-du-Loup.
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Douglas Grégoire
Douglas Grégoire (born August 27, 1996) is an Innu actor and filmmaker from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film ''Kuessipan'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.Norman Wilner"Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show" ''Now Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to: Organizations * Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization * National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization * Now ...'', February 18, 2020. References External links * 1996 births 21st-century First Nations people Canadian male film actors Male actors from Quebec First Nations male actors Innu people Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-actor-stub ...
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2019 Toronto International Film Festival
The 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 September 2019. The opening gala was the documentary film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band'', directed by Daniel Roher, and the festival closed with a screening of the biographical film ''Radioactive'', directed by Marjane Satrapi. Awards In addition to its regular film awards, whose winners were announced at the conclusion of the festival, the festival also announced the inaugural TIFF Tribute Awards, a special program to honour distinguished lifetime achievement in film. Tribute Awards were presented to Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix for acting, Taika Waititi for directing, cinematographer Roger Deakins for artisan film craft, Mati Diop for emerging talent, Participant Media for impact media, and David Foster for special contributions to film. The first award recipients were announced on 12 September, with the major awards announced at the close of the festival on 15 September. In ...
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Canadian Screen Award For Best Supporting Actor
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role to the best performance by a supporting actor in a Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . The award was first presented in 1970 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year. From 1980 until 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; since 2013, it has been presented as part of the new Canadian Screen Awards. In August 2022, the Academy announced that it will discontinue its past practice of presenting gendered awards for film and television actors and actresses; beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented, with eight nominees per category instead of five.Joseph Pugh"C ...
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Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao
Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao is an Innu actress from Canada.Sylvain Turcotte"Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao se plaît à jouer" ''Le Nord-Côtier'', August 2, 2022. She is most noted for her role in the film ''Kuessipan'', for which she received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards The 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards were presented on 10 June 2020, to recognize talent and achievement in the cinema of Quebec. The planned 7 June ceremony was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but nominees were announced 23 April. Abenaki docume ... in 2020. She has also appeared in the television series ''Toute la vie'' and ''Les Perles'', and on stage in Philippe Ducros's ''La cartomancie du territoire''.Daniel Côté"L’auteur Philippe Ducros présente la pièce La cartomancie du territoire" '' Le Quotidien'', November 19, 2021. References External links * 21st-century Canadian actresses 21st-century First Nations people 21st-century indigenous women of ...
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Étienne Galloy
Étienne Galloy is a Canadian actor and filmmaker from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance as Stefie in the 2016 film ''Prank'', for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017. He has also appeared in the films '' Little Brother (Petit frère)'', ''Genesis (Genèse)'', ''Before We Explode (Avant qu'on explose)'', '' Heart Bomb (Une bombe au cœur)'' and ''Kuessipan'', and the television series ''No More Parents'', ''Marc-en-Peluche'', ''Karl & Max'', ''GAME(R)'' and ''Olivier''. '' The Marina (La Marina)'', which he co-directed with Christophe Levac as both actors' directorial debut film, was released in 2020.Maxime Demers"Le beau parcours de La Marina" ''Le Journal de Montréal ''Le Journal de Montréal'' is a daily French-language tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Quebec and is also the largest French-language daily newspaper i ...
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Yamie Grégoire
Yamie Grégoire is an Innu actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film ''Kuessipan'' (2019), for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.Norman Wilner"Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show" ''Now Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to: Organizations * Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization * National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization * Now ...'', February 18, 2020. References External links * 21st-century Canadian actresses 21st-century First Nations people 21st-century indigenous women of the Americas Actresses from Quebec Canadian film actresses First Nations actresses Innu people Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-actor-stub ...
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Sophie Leblond
Sophie Leblond is a Canadian film editor.Sylvain Sarrazin"Monteur: un métier de l’ombre sous les projecteurs" '' La Presse'', July 1, 2020. She is most noted for her work on the films '' Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)'', for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 4th Jutra Awards in 2002,John Griffin, "Un Crabe grabs glory: Claims 7 trophies at Quebec film gala, followed by 15 Fevrier 1839 with 4". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 18, 2002. and '' Alexander Odyssey (Alexandre le fou)'', for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.Brent Furdyk"Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Non-Fiction Winners Revealed" ''ET Canada ''ET Canada'' (previously referred to as ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series, using the same format as the American entertainment newsmagazine '' Entertainment Tonight''. ''ET Canada'' is a broadca ...'', May 25, 2020. Awa ...
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Sept-ÃŽles, Quebec
Sept-Îles (Quebec French pronunciation : , French for "Seven Islands") is a city in the Côte-Nord region of eastern Quebec. It is among the northernmost locales with a paved connection to the rest of Quebec's road network. The population was 25,686 as of the 2011 Canadian census. The town is called Uashat, meaning "bay" in Innu-aimun. The city is well known for having major iron companies like Iron Ore Company of Canada and the Cleveland-Cliffs mining company. The city relies heavily on the iron industry. Sept-Îles has among the highest average wages and the highest average wage increases. The only settlements on the paved road network that are farther north are Fermont, Radisson and Chisasibi, the latter two of which are in the extreme western part of the province at the north end of the James Bay Road. The only other settlements at higher latitudes in the province are mostly isolated Cree, Innu, or Inuit villages, with access limited to seasonal gravel roads. Sept-Îl ...
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