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Roxann Whitebean
Roxann (Karonhiarokwas) Whitebean is an independent film director and media artist from the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake (Canada). Career Whitebean started her career in film and television as an executive producer's assistant for the first season of television series ''Mohawk Girls.'' She pursued as the extras casting director and 3rd assistant director during the second and third season of the show. She wrote, directed and produced her first short fiction film, '' Legend of the Storm'', with financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts. Starring Noelani Jasmine Rourke in the role of the young protagonist Otsistas, and filmed on location in Kahnawake, ''Legend of the Storm'' is a "poetic allegory" inspired by Whitebean's experience as a child living through the events of the Oka crisis in 1990. The film was premièred at the Montreal First Peoples' Festival in 2015 alongside film director Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary '' Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kahnawake
The Kahnawake Mohawk Territory (french: Territoire Mohawk de Kahnawake, in the Mohawk language, ''Kahnawáˀkye'' in Tuscarora) is a First Nations reserve of the Mohawks of Kahnawá:ke on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, across from Montreal. Established by French Canadians in 1719 as a Jesuit mission, it has also been known as ''Seigneury Sault du St-Louis'', and ''Caughnawaga'' (after a Mohawk village in the Mohawk Valley of New York). There are 17 European spelling variations of the Mohawk ''Kahnawake''. Kahnawake's territory totals an area of . Its resident population numbers about 8,000, with a significant number living off reserve. Its land base today is unevenly distributed due to the federal Indian Act, which governs individual land possession. It has rules that are different from those applying to Canadian non-reserve areas. Most ''Kahnawake'' residents originally spoke the Mohawk language, and some learned French when trading with and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Deer
Tracey Penelope ''Tekahentakwa'' Deer (born February 28, 1978, Mohawk nation, Mohawk) is a screenwriter, film director and newspaper publisher based in Kahnawake, Quebec. Deer has written and directed several award-winning documentaries for Rezolution Pictures, an Aboriginal-run film and television production company. In 2008 she was the first Mohawk woman to win a Gemini Award, for her documentary ''Club Native''. Her TV series Mohawk Girls (TV series), ''Mohawk Girls'' had five seasons from 2014 to 2017. She also founded her own production company for independent short work. In March 2021 Deer's dramatic film ''Beans (2020 film), Beans'' was featured at the New York International Children's Film Festival. Set during the Oka crisis of 1990, which Deer lived through as an adolescent, it stars Kiawenti:io Tarbell (Mohawk), a young actress from Akwesasne. Early life and education Tracey Deer was born in 1978 and grew up in a large, close-knit Mohawk family in Kahnawake, a Indian re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SkyMed
''SkyMed'' is a Canadian television medical drama series, which premiered on July 10, 2022 on CBC Television. The series centres on the nurses and pilots working for an air ambulance service in remote northern Manitoba. The series has been renewed for a second season, which is slated to premiere in October 2023.Greg David"CBC sets fall 2023 streaming and broadcast premiere dates for new and returning original series on CBC Gem and CBC Television" ''TV, eh?'', August 24, 2023. Cast and characters Main * Natasha Calis as Nurse Hayley Roberts, a delivery nurse leaving a secret behind in Toronto * Morgan Holmstrom as Crystal Highway, a Cree/ Métis "mama bear" caretaker with a tough-as-nails attitude who is the soul of SkyMed. * Praneet Akilla as Jay Chopper, a pilot and engineer who aspires to be an astronaut and faces challenges in his personal relationships. * Aason Nadjiwan as Captain Austen Bodie, a hotshot pilot romantically involved with Hayley * Mercedes Morris as Lexi Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittany Leborgne
Brittany LeBorgne is a Mohawk actress from Canada. She is most noted for her role as Zoe in the television series '' Mohawk Girls'', for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016. Originally from Kahnawake, Quebec, she studied journalism at Concordia University and has been a journalist for the community newspaper ''The Eastern Door''.Marian Scott, "Oka's bittersweet legacy; On Sept. 26, 1990, the Oka Crisis ended. Today, young Mohawks are moving on". ''Montreal Gazette'', September 25, 2010. She is currently based in Montreal. In addition to ''Mohawk Girls'', LeBorgne has also appeared in the films ''Rustic Oracle'', '' Beans'', ''The Inhuman ''The Inhuman'' (french: L'Inhumain) is a Canadian psychological thriller film, directed by Jason Brennan and released in 2021. Based on the Algonquin legend of the wendigo, the film stars Samian as Mathieu, a successful but troubled neurosurg . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precious Things
Precious may refer to: Music * Precious (group), a British female pop group Albums * ''Precious'' (Chanté Moore album), 1992 * ''Precious'' (Cubic U album), 1998 * ''Precious'' (Ours album), 2002 * ''Precious'' (Precious album), 2000 * ''Precious'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack album to the 2009 film Songs * "Precious" (Depeche Mode song), 2005 * "Precious" (The Jam song), 1982 * "Precious" (Annie Lennox song), 1992 * "Precious" (Pretenders song), 1980 * "Precious" (Vivid song), 2010 * "Precious" (Yuna Ito song), 2006 * "Precious", a song by Jim Jones on the album '' Pray IV Reign'' * "Precious...", a song by Luna Sea on the album '' Luna Sea'' * "Precious", a song by Minipop on the album ''A New Hope'' * "Precious", a 2010 song by Ace of Base Film and television * ''Precious'' (film), a 2009 American drama film * Precious (Passions character), an orangutan in the soap opera ''Passions'' * Precious (Boukenger), fictional artifacts in the Japanese tokusatsu s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts (french: Conseil des arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown corporation established in 1957 as an arts council of the Government of Canada. It acts as the federal government's principal instrument for funding public arts, as well as for fostering and promoting the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. The Canada Council fulfills its mandate primarily through providing grants and services to professional Canadian artists and arts organizations in dance, interdisciplinary art, media arts, music, opera, theatre, writing, publishing, and the visual arts. In addition, the Canada Council administers the Art Bank, which operates art rental programs and an exhibitions and outreach program. The Canada Council Art Bank holds the largest collection of contemporary Canadian art in the world. The Canada Council is also responsible for the secretariat for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Public L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Hard Knox
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt * ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film * The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John Peterson ** ''The Littles'' (TV series), an American animated series based on the novels Places * Little, Kentucky, United States * Little, West Virginia, United States Other uses *Clan Little, a Scottish clan * Little (surname), an English surname * Little (automobile), an American automobile manufactured from 1912 to 1915 * Little, Brown and Company, an American publishing company * USS ''Little'', multiple United States Navy ships See also * * *Little Mountain (other) * Little River (other) *Little Island (other) Little Island can refer to: Geographical areas Australia * Little Island (South Australia) * Little Island (Tasmania) * Little Island (Western Australia) Canada * Little Island (Lake Kagawong), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVOntario
TVO Media Education Group (often abbreviated as TVO and stylized on-air as tvo) is a publicly funded English-language educational television network and media organization serving the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA), a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario. It operates flagship station CICA-DT (channel 19) in Toronto, which also relays programming across portions of Ontario through eight rebroadcast stations. All pay television (cable, satellite, IPTV) providers throughout Ontario are required to carry TVO on their basic tier, and programming can be streamed for free online within Canada. Governance, funding and other responsibilities TVO is governed by a volunteer board of directors, and supported by a network of regional councillors from across the province. TVO also reports to the Ontario legislature through the Minister of Education, in accordance with the Ontario Educational Commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raven's Quest
Raven's Progressive Matrices (often referred to simply as Raven's Matrices) or RPM is a non-verbal test typically used to measure general human intelligence and abstract reasoning and is regarded as a non-verbal estimate of fluid intelligence. It is one of the most common tests administered to both groups and individuals ranging from 5-year-olds to the elderly.Kaplan, R. M., & Saccuzzo, D. P. (2009). Standardized tests in education, civil service, and the military. Psychological testing: Principles, applications, and issues (7 ed. pp. 325–327). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. It comprises 60 multiple choice questions, listed in order of increasing difficulty. This format is designed to measure the test taker's reasoning ability, the eductive (" meaning-making") component of Spearman's ''g'' (''g'' is often referred to as general intelligence). The tests were originally developed by John C. Raven in 1936.Raven, J. C. (1936). ''Mental tests used in genetic studies: The performance of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living Culture/Speaking Truth
Living or The Living may refer to: Common meanings * Life, a condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms ** Living species, one that is not extinct * Personal life, the course of an individual human's life * Human life (other) * Human condition * Living wage, refers to the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living * Benefice or Living, in canon law, a position in a church that has attached to it a source of income Music * ''Living'' (Paddy Casey album) or the title song, "Livin, 2003 * ''Living'' (Judy Collins album), 1971 *'' Living 2001–2002'', an album by the John Butler Trio, 2003 * ''Living'' (EP) or the title song, by Josephine Collective, 2007 * "Living" (song), by Dierks Bentley, 2019 * The Living (band) early 1980's Seattle Punk Rock band, featuring Duff McKagan Television and film * ''Living'' (1954 TV program), a 1954–1955 Canadian informational program * ''Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Politica
Cinema Politica (CP) is a non-profit media arts organization based in Montreal with nearly 100 screening locations all over the world (as of September 2011). Each chapter ("local") screens independent political documentaries for free or by donation to audiences, with guest filmmakers and speakers often invited to participate. CP claims to be the "largest volunteer-run, community and campus-based documentary-screening network in the world." Cinema Politica started in Montreal at Concordia University in 2003 as an incorporated non-profit network and organization with several chapters throughout Canada and abroad. Cinema Politica is funded through arts council grants, membership fees, distribution revenues and audience donations. Most CP locals are based on campuses in Canada and Europe, but the organization has locations off-campus (community locals) and in other parts of the world including Latin America and Africa. Cinema Politica's Mandate Cinema Politica states that its manda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skindigenous
''Skindigenous'' is a Canadian documentary television series, which premiered on APTN in 2018.Daniel J. Rowe"Skindigenous takes tour of global ink world" ''Eastern Door'', February 20, 2018. The series profiles the role of tattooing in various indigenous cultures around the world. The series was narrated by Candy Palmater. Directors of the series included Randy Kelly, Kim O'Bomsawin, Roxann Whitebean, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Jason Brennan, and Courtney Montour. Patrick Kaplin received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for the first-season episode "Indonesia", and the series was nominated for Best Biography or Arts Documentary Program or Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards 11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first repdigit. In English, it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables. Name "Eleven" derives from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
