NFB Collection
Kwa'nu'te': Micmac and Maliseet Artists
199141 min 6 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Catherine Anne MartinKimberlee McTaggart
Production: Kent NasonGermaine Ying Gee WongSami Fareed Ahmed
Script: Barry Cowling
Produced by the NFB with the financial assistance of the Canadian Department of Indian and Northern Affairs and the Maritime Provinces Education Foundation.
This film profiles a number of Mi’kmaq and Maliseet artists from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, showing their similarities and differences, samples of their work and the sources of their inspiration. It offers a remarkable look at Indigenous art and spirituality in Atlantic Canada.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Atlantic RegionPortraitsReligion and SpiritualityVisual Arts and Architecture
- Visual Arts > Atlantic RegionIndigenous ArtPortraits
- Indigenous Studies > ArtsIdentity/Society
- Tangible & Material Culture > BasketryCarving & Sculpture Contemporary Art Drawing & Painting
- Indigenous Peoples: Canada > Malecite / Maliseet (Wolastoqiyik)Mi'kmaq (L'nu)
Credits
- director
- Catherine Anne Martin
- Kimberlee McTaggart
- producer
- Kent Nason
- cinematography
- Kent Nason
- executive producer
- Germaine Ying Gee Wong
- Sami Fareed Ahmed
- script
- Barry Cowling
- sound
- Arthur McKay
- editing
- Kimberlee McTaggart
- sound editing
- Jane Porter
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- narrator
- Rocky Paul Wiseman
- music
- Steve Tittle
Awards
- Award of Excellence for Lighting (Kent Nason)Atlantic International Film Festival
- Silver Apple Award - Category: Visual Arts / Profiles of ArtistsNational Educational Media Network Competition
- Honorable mention - Category: Fine Arts / ArtistsItinerant - American Film and Video Festival