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Owl and the Raven: An Eskimo Legend
19736 min 39 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
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.
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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