Mid Length: Intimate Portraits
(Program run time approx. 88mins)
Lindsay McIntyre
her silent life
Canada, 2012, 31mins
Synopsis: A version of family. From mother, grandmother, great-grandmother to me, stories flow through our matrilineal heritage to explore the remarkable life of my Inuk great-grandmother.
Credits:
Director: Lindsay McIntyre
Language: English
Format: 16mm and S8 to digital
Jules Koostachin
Oshkikishikaw: A New Day
Canada, 2019, 25mins
Synopsis: 12-year-old twins cut their hair for the very first time in a Cree coming-of-age ceremony.
Credits:
Writer, Producer and Director: Jules A. Koostachin
Director of Photography: Marco Libretti
Editor: Jessica Dymond
Narrator: Mahiigan Koostachin
Production Assistant and Stills Photography: Asivak Koostachin
Post Production Sound Design and Sound Mix: Dave Chick
Business Affairs: Patricia Poskitt
Legal: Nathaniel Lyman
Music: James Bay
Written by Adrian Sutherland
Performed by Midnight Shine
Special Thanks: Christina Pare, Anthony Passero Salon, Reclaim your Power @reclaimyourpower, Karolina Turek Photography, Kenneth Chakasim, Attawapiskat First Nation.
Produced in Association with CBC
General Manager, Programming: Sally Catto
Executive Director, Unscripted Content: Jennifer Dettman
Senior Director, Documentary: Sandra Kleinfeld
Senior Director of Production, Unscripted Content: Alexandra Lane
Executive in Charge of Production, CBC Docs: Lesley Birchard
Anne-Marie Bouchard
Confidences
Canada, 2016, 6mins
Synopsis: A mother’s revealing secrets to her eleven year old daughter.
Credits:
Director: Anne-Marie Bouchard
Cinematographer: Julie Pelletier
Editing: Anne-Marie Bouchard
Sound: Pierre Maroni
Music: Mustapha Draoui, Singer Aurélie Suvaciyan
Sound Editing: Mustapha Draoui
Cast and oice : Catherine Breton; Child: Mado Saubié, Louise Saubié, Anaël Bourg
Michele Kaiowá
De Michele para Sophia
Brazil, 2021, 7mins
Synopsis: The Nhemongueta Kunhã Mbaraete project is an exchange of video-letters between three Indigenous women and one non-Indigenous woman from an affective, ethnophilosophical and critical perspective. The filmmakers respond to the current process of social isolation during the pandemic and the universes that permeate them.
Credits:
Direction, photography and script: Michele Kaiowá, Graciela Guarani, Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy e Sophia Pinheiro
Editing: Alexandre Pankararu, Fábio Costa Menezes
Production and visual communication: Sophia Pinheiro
Work commissioned by the Moreira Salles Institute – Programa IMS Convida (Brasil)
Francisca Duran
Boy
Canada, 2005, 6mins
Synopsis: The visual poetics of Vancouver are brought to light as the filmmaker reflects on the cities she has lived in, motherhood and the birth of her first son.
Credits:
Years of production: 1999+2005
Colour
Original Format: 16mm
Language: English
Nathalie Lopez-Gutierrez
Saïda Ouchaou-Ozarowski
La vie en rose
Canada, 2010, 3:56mins
Synopsis: Padminee immigrated from Mauritius hoping for a better future for her family. Despite being highly educated she must work two jobs to make ends meet.
Credits:
Director: Nathalie Lopez-Gutierrez, Saïda Ouchaou-Ozarowski
Language: French with English subtitles
Torill Kove
Threads
Canada/Norway, 2017, 8:49mins
Synopsis: In her latest animated short, Academy Award®-winning director Torill Kove explores the beauty and complexity of parental love, the bonds that we form over time, and the ways in which they stretch and shape us.
Credits:
Director: Torill Kove
Animation: Torill Kove, Josefine Hannibal
Backgrounds: Torill Kove
Original Music: Kevin Dean (socan © 2017)
A co-production of Mikrofilm AS and The National Film Board of Canada