Festival Activities at Kahnawake
All activities take place at Kateri Hall
In partnership with Kanien'kehaka Onkwawén:na Raotitiohkwa, Montréal First Peoples' Festival 2007 is presenting two film-screening sessions at Kateri Hall in Kahnawake. A professional development workshop will also be offered to people who are interested in developing audiovisual productions in the Mohawk language.
Chiefs and Champions: Billy Two-Rivers, Doug Cuthand
This documentary screening will also be an opportunity to honour Billy Two- Rivers, who has been a wrestler, actor, chef, perceptive connoisseur of the Mohawk language and now, an elder.
Workshop: audiovisual production in Amerindian languages
MIKUAN ET ASHINI
Luc Lainé, a Wendat producer, from the Les productions K8e K8e company and Paul Rickard, a Cree director, have both managed productions incorporating ancestral First Nations languages.
Mikuan et Ashini (Les productions K8e K8e) is a series inspired by tales from the Innu tradition. A French version and an Innu language version were produced simultaneously. The series has an educational focus, as an Innu language learning aid.
Several documentaries by Paul Rickard, including Aboriginal architecture, living architecture, exist in Cree and Mohawk language versions. The director is now in the process of filming a documentary on Mohawk community efforts to protect their language, a subject he had already touched upon in the series Finding our talk.
I DEFEND THE JUNGLE
Two Spirits: Back in the circle, Julien Boisvert
Border Shop (Sur la ligne), Frédéric Desager
I Defend the Jungle, Eriberto Gualinga
