Owl and the Raven: An Eskimo Legend

19736 min 39 secFilm: Animation, Children's film

G

Direction: Co Hoedeman

Production: Pierre Moretti

Script: Alootook Ipellie

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the co-operation of the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

According to this Inuit legend the raven was not always the jet-black bird that it is today. The owl had something to do with it. What happened makes an engaging story acted out by two life-like puppets made of seal fur. The film, narrated partly in Inuktitut, partly in English, is largely the work of Inuit artists.

Subject categories


  • Literature and Language > Animation based on LiteratureIndigenous Traditional Stories
  • Literature and Language - Canada > Children's MaterialsInuit Traditional Stories
  • Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > Traditional stories
  • Arts Education > Art

Credits


direction
Co Hoedeman
puppet design
Germaine Arnaktauyok
set design
Alootook Ipellie
song
Jeela Alilkatuktuk
dialogue
Jeela Alilkatuktuk
voice
Toojatogak Itoacheak
Elatak Nakashook
Alootook Ipellie
editing
Pierre Bernier
music consultant
Maurice Blackburn
text
Alootook Ipellie
re-recording
Michel Descombes
producer
Pierre Moretti