Norma's Story

20155 min 46 secFilm: Animation

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Direction: Alex Hawley

Production: Alex HawleyKaren Hawley

Script: Norma Kassi

This title is an acquisition.

This animated short film is a stylistic and lively story of the profound effect of climate change on the people and wildlife of the Arctic. Northern communities provide authenticity to the story of climate change because they are experiencing its impacts now, not in some distant future.


Temperature changes, unrivalled anywhere else on the planet, have significantly impacted the wildlife sustaining the Gwich’in First Nation and other northern communities.


This film tells the true story of Norma, a Gwich’in woman who has experience dramatic changes in her way of life in just a few decades.

Subject categories


  • Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Environmental Issues
  • Science > Environmental ScienceLife Systems/Ecology
  • Indigenous Studies > Issues and Contemporary Challenges

Credits


director
Alex Hawley
producer
Alex Hawley
Karen Hawley
story
Norma Kassi
story adaptation
Karen Hawley
Alex Hawley