Terril Calder is a Canadian artist and animator.Pat Mullen
"Terril Calder Crafts a Duel of Sacred Teachings in Meneath"
'' Point of View'', September 11, 2021. She is most noted for her short film '' Snip'', which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list in 2016. Calder, a

Métis The Métis ( ; Canadian ) are Indigenous peoples who inhabit Canada's three Prairie Provinces, as well as parts of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and the Northern United States. They have a shared history and culture which derives ...

from

Fort Frances Fort Frances is a town in, and the seat of, Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The population as of the 2016 census was 7,739. Fort Frances is a popular fishing destination. It hosts the annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Cham ...

, Ontario, released her first short film ''Canned Meat'' in 2009. In 2011 she was the animator on

Michelle Latimer Michelle Latimer is a Canadian actress, director, writer, and filmmaker. She initially rose to prominence for her role as Trish Simkin on the television series ''Paradise Falls'', shown nationally in Canada on Showcase Television (2001–2004). ...

's short film '' Choke'', which was a

Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for scu ...

nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the

32nd Genie Awards The 32nd Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 8, 2012 to honour films released in 2011.

in 2012, and on her own short film ''The Gift'', which won the Kent Monkman Award for Best Experimental/Innovation in Storytelling at the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. In 2014 she released ''The Lodge'', her first full-length feature film.Salma Monani
"The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces"
''

Studies in American Indian Literatures ''Studies in American Indian Literatures'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Native American literature. It is published by the University of Nebraska Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literat ...

'', Vol. 29, no. 4 (2017): pp. 1-28. '' Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics'' was released in 2021.

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