Kwa'nu'te': Micmac and Maliseet Artists

199141 min 6 secFilm: Documentary

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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.

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