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How People Got Fire
200816 min 2 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Daniel Janke
Production: Svend-Erik EriksenMartin RoseRina Fraticelli
Script: Daniel Janke
How People Got Fire centres on Grandma Kay (based on
elder Kitty Smith) and the connection she forges with the village children
through the oral tradition of their culture.
Twelve-year-old Tish is one of those children - an introspective,
talented girl who feels particularly drawn to Grandma Kay's kitchen. Here,
past and present blend, myth and reality meet, and the metaphor of fire
infuses all in a location that lies at the heart of the community's spiritual
and cultural memory.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Animation based on LiteratureIndigenous Traditional Stories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > ChildrenLegends and LiteratureOral CultureReligion and Spirituality
- Literature and Language - Canada > Indigenous Traditional Stories
- English Language Arts > CanLit
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/World
- Languages > English as a Second Language
- Media Education > Film Animation
- Indigenous Studies > Identity/Society
- Arts Education > Music
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage
Credits
- screenplay
- Daniel Janke
- direction
- Daniel Janke
- producer
- Svend-Erik Eriksen
- Martin Rose
- director of photography
- Brian Johnson
- creative consultant
- M. Marilyn Cherenko
- narrator
- Louise Profeit-Leblanc
- Jonnie-Lyn Kushniruk
- animation
- Christopher Auchter
- design
- Christopher Auchter
- Jay White
- lead animator
- Jay White
- rotoscoping
- Myk Smith
- Kari Frost
- Stuart Andrew Sharp
- Virginie St. Jean-Leblanc
- Jay White
- classical animation
- Christopher Auchter
- Stuart Andrew Sharp
- background painting
- Emma Barr
- Jay White
- compositing
- Lake Pearson
- Jay White
- editor
- Andrew Connors
- sound design
- Daniel Janke
- sound supervision
- Dennis Burke
- cast
- Mae Hume
- Jonnie-Lyn Kushniruk
- Amy Smarch
- Austin Smith
- production manager
- Jessica Hall
- casting director
- Arlin McFarlane
- 1st assistant director
- Paul Etherington
- camera assistant
- Paul Pitzel
- gaffer
- James Liston
- key grip
- Joe Bishop
- dolly grip
- Kurt Fraser
- best boy
- Jay E. Sather
- set decorator
- Emma Barr
- props
- Emma Barr
- assistant set decorator
- Jassin Godard
- wardrobe
- Linda Talbot
- hair
- Linda Talbot
- makeup
- Linda Talbot
- catering
- Louise Johns
- Charlie James
- craft service
- Rosa Brown
- transportation
- Jessie D. Jackson
- production assistant
- Darlene Ann Smith
- background performer
- Maya Ayotte
- Ida Calmegane
- Charlie James
- Colleen James
- Devon James
- Liam Janke
- Sophie Janke
- Art Johns
- Sheena Johns
- Naomi Donna Helm
- Tyrel Low-Bayne
- Tanisha Low-Bayne
- Heather Neumann
- Kala Neumann
- Rae-Anne Sidney
- Gina Rose Slevinsky
- Billy William Smith
- Helen June Smith
- Julia Smith
- Landis Smith
- Trevaughn Smith
- Ben Teertstra
- research
- Sharon Shorty
- music composer
- Daniel Janke
- music - arrangement
- Daniel Janke
- music - publisher
- Daniel Janke
- musician
- Adele Armin
- Daniel Janke
- Igor Gefter
- Rick Sacks
- Jordy Walker
- copyist
- Greg Hamilton
- re-recording mixer
- Dennis Burke
- online editor
- Jonathan Tyrrell
- post-production services
- Shaman Digital Media
- production coordinator
- Christine Sears
- Teri Snelgrove
- technical coordinator
- Wes Machnikowski
- production supervisor
- Kathryn Lynch
- marketing manager
- Mia Desroches
- program administrator
- Bruce Hagerman
- executive producer
- Rina Fraticelli
Awards
- Best Animated Short FilmAnnual American Indian Film Festival
- Best Short DocumentaryimagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival
- TEUEIKAN Second PrizeFirst Peoples' Festival (Land InSights)
- Best AnimationDreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival