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Ever Deadly
20221 h 29 min 55 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Chelsea McMullanTanya Tagaq
Production: Lea Marin (National Film Board of Canada)Anita Lee (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Tanya TagaqChelsea McMullan
A production of the National Film Board of Canada.
Ever Deadly is an immersive, visceral music and cinema experience featuring Tanya Tagaq, avant-garde Inuit throat singer, and created in collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Chelsea McMullan. This documentary explores Tagaq’s transformation of sound with an eye to colonial fallout, natural freedom and Canadian history.
We witness Tagaq’s intimate relationship with the Nuna—the Land—a living, breathing organism present in all forms of her improvised performances. Ever Deadly weaves concert footage with stunning sequences filmed on location in Nunavut, seamlessly bridging landscapes, stories and songs with pain, anger and triumph—all through the expressions of one of the most innovative musical performers of our time.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > HistoryWomen
- Women > Indigenous Women
- Music > Performances
Credits
- featuring
- Tanya Tagaq
- Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
- Mary Gillis
- Inuuja Gillis
- Lucas Kalluk
- writer
- Tanya Tagaq
- Chelsea McMullan
- director
- Chelsea McMullan
- Tanya Tagaq
- producer
- Lea Marin
- Anita Lee
- executive producer
- Anita Lee
- co-producer
- Kate Vollum
- director of photography
- Alejandro Coronado
- editor
- Avrïl Jacobson
- sound recordist
- Alexander Unger
- sound supervisor
- Graham Rogers
- original illustrations
- Shuvinai Ashoona
- animation
- Glenn Gear
- Fred Casia
- Parissa Mohit
- uaajeerneq
- Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
- original music
- Jesse Zubot
- additional cinematography
- Ann Tipper
- Catherine Lutes
- additional sound
- Sara Labadie
- production supervisor
- Marcus Matyas
- senior production coordinator
- Katie Murray
- production coordinator
- Carla Murphy
- Jessica Lozano Castro
- Max Wolfond
- technical coordinator
- Kevin Riley
- Luc Binette
- technology advisor
- Frédéric Sauvé
- technical support
- Frank Nadeau
- studio administrator
- Leslie Anne Poyntz
- Patricia Bourgeois
- Stephanie Brantner
- Andrew Martin-Smith
- manager studio operations
- Mark Wilson
- studio coordinator
- Carly Kastner
- assistant editor
- Varunraj Gandhi
- William Mitchell
- Kevin Shak
- Cassidy Croft
- production assistant
- Cher Obediah
- Christina Bresolin
- Andres Orbegozo
- Siena DeCampo
- vocals
- Tanya Tagaq
- musician
- Jeffrey Samuel Zeigler
- Jesse Zubot
- Ashkan Kooshanejad
- Jean Martin
- performance
- Tekaronhiáhkhwa Santee Smith
- choir leader
- Christine Duncan
- director of photography, concert
- Maya Bankovic
- steadicam operator
- Adam Tupper
- camera operator
- Gabriela Osio Vanden
- Alejandro Coronado
- 1st assistant camera
- Andrew Stretch
- Christopher James
- Andrew Reilly
- 2nd assistant camera
- Jacob White
- technical advisor
- Ryan Czezewski
- data wrangler
- Douglas Nayler
- key grip
- Carl David Tribe
- 2nd sound recordist
- Kai Masaoka
- production manager
- Christina Carvalho
- location manager
- Gordon Peck
- Corey Dimitruk
- lighting design
- Louise Simpson
- production designer
- Daria Savic
- set dresser
- Nicole Zimmer
- Braden Labonte
- Katheryn Marie Harrison
- Christian Harrison
- Jennifer McGouran
- hair & make-up
- Tami El Sombati
- wardrobe
- Plastik Wrap
- catering
- Cinnamon Girls
- craft service
- Blazing Kitchen
- craft server
- William Engel
- title design
- Sebastian Pardo
- archival researcher
- Kathleen Fisher
- Judy Robinson
- Jocelyn Piirainen
- Elizabeth Klinck
- Conor McNally
- visual researcher
- Kathleen Fisher
- Judy Robinson
- Jocelyn Piirainen
- Elizabeth Klinck
- Conor McNally
- translation
- Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
- Elisabeth Jansen-Hadlari
- WinTranslation
- Aaju Peter
- sound designer
- Jane Tattersall
- dialogue editor
- Krystin Hunter
- re-recording mixer
- Graham Rogers
- assistant re-recording mixer
- Will Stephens
- account manager
- Mark Stevens
- colourist
- Walt Biljan
- project manager
- Lubin J. Martinez
- online editor
- John Pyke
- Jose Arturo Torres Salina
- VFX
- Cassidy Croft
- live concert music consultant
- Jesse Zubot
- additional choir recording
- Revolution Recording Inc.
- marketing manager
- Jessica Gedge
- Melissa Wheeler
- marketing coordinator
- Michelle Rozon
- publicist
- Jennifer Mair
- legal counsel
- Peter Kallianiotis
Awards
- Audience choice for Best Canadian Documentary FeatureInternational Film Festival
- Special Mention from the Canadian Documentary JuryInternational Film Festival
- 2e prix Air Canada- MateraFirst Peoples' Festival (Land InSights)