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Maïna
''Maïna'' is a Canadian drama film, released in 2013. CBN (AM), CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, November 4, 2013. Directed by Michel Poulette, an adaptation of Dominique Demers' novel, the film stars Roseanne Supernault. Plot Maïna, Innu chief Mishtenapuu's daughter, embarks on a quest into Inuit territory to rescue Nipki, a young boy from her community captured by the Inuit following a battle." ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Canadian Screen Awards
The 2nd Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 9, 2014, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2013."Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated" , January 13, 2014. Awards in technical and some other categories were presented in a series of advance ceremonies during the week of March 3 to 8. Nominations were announced on January 13, 2014. In film categories, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roseanne Supernault
Roseanne Supernault is a Canadian film and television actress, best known for her roles as Natalie Stoney in the television series '' Blackstone'' and as the title character in the 2013 film ''Maïna''. Originally from East Prairie, Alberta, she is of Métis and Cree descent. Career Supernault won the Best Actress Award at the 2013 American Indian Film Festival for her performance in ''Maïna''. A graduate of the Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts in Edmonton, Alberta, she has also appeared in the films ''Rhymes for Young Ghouls'' and '' Through Black Spruce'', and the television series '' Rabbit Fall'', '' Into the West'' and '' Mixed Blessings''. Supernault runs acting workshops in Vancouver for Indigenous youths and has been active in the Idle No More Idle No More is an ongoing protest movement, founded in December 2012 by four women: three First Nations women and one non-Native ally. It is a grassroots movement among the Indigenous peoples in Canada c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Poulette
Michel Poulette is a Canadian film and television director, writer and producer. He won the Claude Jutra Award in 1994 for his first feature film, ''Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes)'', which became the first American remake of a Canadian movie: '' ED TV'' by ''Ron Howard''. Career Poulette directed his first film, ''Louis 19'',"The Haven" ''Variety'', September 29, 1997. in 1994, to positive reviews, and then was a director for the sketch comedy series ''''. In 1997 his detective film ''The Haven'' was released. Poulette we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Demers
Dominique Demers (born 23 November 1956) is a French-Canadian novelist, best renowned for her ''Mlle Charlotte'' novel series. She holds a PhD in children's literature. Biography When Demers was seventeen, she moved to Montreal and enrolled at McGill University, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in children's literature. She went on to obtain a master's degree at the University of Québec and a doctorate at Université de Sherbrooke, both in the field of children's literature. Demers also contributed to a Postdoctoral research, postdoctoral study concerning children and the media for the Université de Montréal. She taught at the Collège Charles-Lemoyne. For fifteen years, Demers worked under L'actualité, Châtelaine, and Le Devoir as a journalist, where her contributions earned her the :fr:Judith-Jasmin, Judith-Jasmin Award in 1987. In 1991, Demers wrote her first novel, a children's novel titled ''Dominique Picotée''. The first of the "Alexis" series, the story of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Indian Film Festival
The American Indian Film Festival is an annual non-profit film festival in San Francisco, California, United States. It is the world's oldest venue dedicated solely to Native American/First Nations films and prepared the way for the 1979 formation of the American Indian Film Institute. According to the Institute, the Festival was first presented in Seattle, Washington in 1975 and moved in 1977 to San Francisco, where it remains today. In 1979, the Festival was incorporated. Over 3,100 films have been screened from Native American/First Nations communities in the U.S. and Canada, and the festival includes events such as film screenings, panel discussions, an awards ceremony and networking events. This festival is not to be confused by the Native American Film and Video Festival, which was founded in 1979. Winners Recent festival winners include: *films and documentaries: ''Barking Water'', '' Given to Walk'', '' Le jour avant le lendemain'', ''Imprint'', ''Expiration Date'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Achievement In Costume Design
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian costume designer. It was formerly called the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design before the Genies were merged into the Canadian Screen Awards. 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Prix Iris for Best Costume Design References {{Canadian Screen Awards Costume design Costume design is the creation of clothing for the overall appearance of a character or performer. Costume may refer to the style of dress particular to a nation, a class, or a period. In many cases, it may contribute to the fullness of the arti ... Costume design awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Achievement In Cinematography
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Cinematography, to honour the best Canadian film cinematography. The award was first presented in 1963 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, with separate categories for colour and black-and-white cinematography; the separate categories were discontinued after 1969, with only a single category presented through the 1970s. After 1978, the award was presented as part of the new Genie Awards; since 2012, it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. In early years, the award could be presented for either narrative feature or documentary films, although this was discontinued later on and only feature films were eligible. Beginning with the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards, a separate category was introduced for Best Cinematography in a Documentary. 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Prix Iris for Best Cinematography References {{Canadian Screen Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Achievement In Art Direction/Production Design ...
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian film art direction/production design. 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Prix Iris for Best Art Direction References {{Canadian Screen Awards Awards for best art direction Art direction Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the visi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award For Best Motion Picture
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Motion Picture to the best Canadian film of the year.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . The award was first presented in 1949 by the Canadian Film Awards under the title Film of the Year. Due to the economics of Canadian film production, however, most Canadian films made in this era were documentaries or short films rather than full-length narrative feature films. In some years, a Film of the Year award was not formally presented, with the highest film award presented that year being in the Theatrical Short or Amateur Film categories. In 1964, the Canadian Film Awards introduced an award for Best Feature Film. For the remainder of the 1960s, the two awards were presented alongside each other to different films, except in 1965 when a Feature Film was named and a Film of the Year was not, and in 1967 when the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Achievement In Music – Original Score ...
An annual award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score is presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian original score for the previous year. Prior to 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards; since 2012 it has been presented as part of the expanded Canadian Screen Awards. 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Prix Iris for Best Original Music * References {{Canadian Screen Awards Film awards for best score Original Score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Smith (cinematographer)
Allen Smith is a Canadian cinematographer. He is most noted for his work on the film ''Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction)'', for which he won both the Genie Award for Best Cinematography at the 24th Genie Awards and the Jutra Award for Best Cinematography at the 6th Jutra Awards. He was also a Genie Award nominee for ''Sticky Fingers (Les doigts croches)'' at the 30th Genie Awards in 2009, a Canadian Screen Award nominee for ''Maïna'' at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014, and a Jutra nominee for ''The Little Book of Revenge (Guide de la petit vengeance)'' at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007.Charles-Henri Ramond"Prix Jutra 2007: récapitulatif" ''Films du Québec'', December 26, 2008. His other credits have included the films ''Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver)'', ''The Hidden Fortress (La Forteresse suspendue)'', ''Regina'' and ''Maman Last Call ''Maman Last Call'' is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 2005."A blessed event, after all". ''Montreal Gazette'', Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natar Ungalaaq
Natar Ungalaaq (born 1959) is a Canadian Inuit actor, filmmaker and sculptor whose work is in many major collections of Inuit art. Before playing the lead roles in '' Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner'' (2001) and '' The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)'' (2008), Ungalaaq played major roles in other Canadian and American films, including '' Kabloonak'' (1995), ''Glory & Honor'' (1998) and ''Frostfire'' (1994). He is also a producer and director of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. Ungalaaq was the carving buddy of director Zacharias Kunuk. With funds raised by selling their handmade work, they bought their first camera gear in 1981, and started a production company in an Inuit community that didn't even have a TV. Natar is also a renowned carver. He began when he was 9 or 10 years old, using his grandfather's tools. His carving in white soapstone, " Sedna with a Hairbrush 1985", is featured in the National Gallery of Canada's collection. In 2016, he made his debut as a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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