by admin | Nov 13, 2019 | Project Update |
I’m proud to say that Thomas Snow (Eyarheh Wapa) and I finished a film about parenting while parenting. I learned so much just from watching Thomas being a dad nurturing, disciplining, training, cleaning (endlessly), and teaching Nakoda all without sleep. It was...
by admin | Oct 9, 2018 | Lesson Plan Examples, Project Update |
I’ve been asked many times how the journey of Elder in the Making got started. The simple answer is curiosity. Curiosity about an acknowledgement and a date: September 22, the day that Treaty 7 was signed. It was a curiosity that would take me all across Alberta...
by admin | Aug 9, 2018 | Project Update |
We are proud to present our new documentary “Fox Chaser: a winter on the trapline”. It’s a story that will take you into the harsh winters of northern Alberta where a young Cree trapper struggles to protect his childhood dream of living off the...
by admin | Jul 10, 2018 | Project Update |
We’re proud to present a short documentary that you’ll be able to use in your classrooms in the new year. While Elder in the Making took you to the hot summer prairies of the south, our CBC short “The Land is the Teacher” takes you to the wintry boreal forest of the...
by admin | Jun 1, 2018 | Project Update |
After filming the Dene Hand Games, we planned to meet up with Dene Tha’ Elizabeth Enfeld to talk about her perspective of the land. Unfortunately she had her hands full with meal preparations for the Dene gathering, and before you know it our crew found themselves...
by admin | May 31, 2018 | Project Update |
Our crew led by Cree Director Alex Lazarowich drove into Cold Lake to film with the famed Indigenous artist Alex Janvier. It had taken months to schedule time with this celebrity. Even then he was a very private person and asked us not to film his home. We had just a...
