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If Only I Were an Indian...
19961 h 20 min 41 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: John Paskievich
Production: John PaskievichJoe MacDonaldChes YetmanEllen Rutter
Script: John Paskievich
Co-produced by Zemma Pictures and the NFB with the participation of the Canada-Manitoba Cultural Industries Development Office and Telefilm Canada.
If Only I Were an Indian... accompanies three Indigenous elders from Manitoba on a voyage to the Czech Republic as they relive their past through the native rituals and costumes adopted by their European admirers. Hesitation gives way to humour, fear gives way to friendship, and out of a common passion for the traditions of Indigenous Peoples in North America, a collective hope for the future is born.
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Subject categories
- Foreign Countries > Eastern Europe and Balkans
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Lifestyles
Credits
- director
- John Paskievich
- script
- John Paskievich
- narrator
- John Paskievich
- producer
- John Paskievich
- Joe MacDonald
- Ches Yetman
- associate producer
- Ellen Rutter
- cinematography
- Joan Hutton
- animation camera
- Raymond Dumas
- sound
- Robert Hanchar
- editing
- Jeff McKay
- sound editing
- Clive Perry
- re-recording
- Shelley Craig
- Jean Paul Vialard
Awards
- Planete-Cable Award - with a cash prize of 10,000FFBilan du film ethnographique / Musée de l'Homme