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Button Blanket
20093 min 25 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Zoe L. HopkinsDora Hopkins
Production: Selwyn Jacob (National Film Board of Canada)Tracey Friesen
Script: Zoe L. Hopkins
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-production with Animiki See Productions with the participation of APTN.
This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket
by integrating the performance of a traditional dance with the art of the West
coast Heiltsuk people.
Vistas - 13 short films on the theme of
"nationhood". Produced by the National Film Board of Canada and APTN.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > British ColumbiaCraftsCultural Identity
- Dance > Folk Dancing
- Indigenous Studies > ArtsIdentity/SocietyIssues and Contemporary Challenges
- History and Citizenship Education > Culture and Currents of Thought (1500-present)
- Worldview, Belief, Spirituality Philosophy & Ideology > Dance Ceremonies
- Indigenous Peoples: Canada > Heiltsuk
- Roles & Relationships > Indigenous Identity
- Tangible & Material Culture > Textiles & Clothing
Credits
- writer
- Zoe L. Hopkins
- director
- Zoe L. Hopkins
- cinematographer
- Helen Haig-Brown
- editor
- Eliot Piltz
- digital compositor
- Eliot Piltz
- creator
- Dora Hopkins
- location sound recordist
- Don Howell
- sound design
- Gael MacLean
- sound supervision
- Gael MacLean
- music composer
- David Gladstone
- music performer
- Gary Neasloss
- John Humchitt
- Dave Green
- dancer
- Urban Heiltsuk Dancers
- re-recording engineer
- Doug Paterson
- audio post
- Rukkus House
- post-production services
- Hand Cut Films
- Finale Editworks
- production coordinator
- Teri Snelgrove
- technical coordinator
- Wes Machnikowski
- production supervisor
- Kathryn Lynch
- Scott Collins
- program administrator
- Bruce Hagerman
- Cyndi Forcand
- marketing manager
- Leslie Stafford
- Kay Leung
- series producer
- Vanessa Loewen
- Joe MacDonald
- series executive producer
- Derek Mazur
- Peter Strutt
- producer
- Selwyn Jacob
- executive producer
- Tracey Friesen