How People Got Fire | |
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Directed by | Daniel Janke |
Written by | Daniel Janke |
Produced by | Svend-Erik Eriksen, Martin Rose |
Narrated by | Louise Profeit-Leblanc |
Cinematography | Brian Johnson |
Music by | Daniel Janke |
Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
Release date |
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Running time | 16 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages |
English French [1] |
How People Got Fire is a short, poetic animated film from the Yukon.
In a snowy village, a talented young girl listens to her grandmother's story of how Crow got fire for the people. A magical realist exploration of aboriginal American spirituality, oral story-telling, and a northern childhood.
"This short film is based in part on the story told by the late Kitty Smith of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation." [2]
The film was shot in Carcross-Tagish, Yukon and rotoscoped, [3] with the addition of charcoal drawings by Christopher Auchter, and a contemporary classical sound track by Daniel Janke. [4]
The film was the 2009 World Indigenous Film Awards Winner for Best Animation, and received the 2009 American Indian Film Festival Award, Best Animated Short. [5] [6] It received an award for Best Short Documentary at the 2009 Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, and the TEUEIKAN Second Prize at the 2009 First Peoples' Festival (Land InSights), Montréal. [7] The film was a finalist for the Writers Guild of Canada 2010 Screenwriting Award for Short Subjects. [8]
How People Got Fire | |
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![]() | |
Directed by | Daniel Janke |
Written by | Daniel Janke |
Produced by | Svend-Erik Eriksen, Martin Rose |
Narrated by | Louise Profeit-Leblanc |
Cinematography | Brian Johnson |
Music by | Daniel Janke |
Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
Release date |
|
Running time | 16 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages |
English French [1] |
How People Got Fire is a short, poetic animated film from the Yukon.
In a snowy village, a talented young girl listens to her grandmother's story of how Crow got fire for the people. A magical realist exploration of aboriginal American spirituality, oral story-telling, and a northern childhood.
"This short film is based in part on the story told by the late Kitty Smith of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation." [2]
The film was shot in Carcross-Tagish, Yukon and rotoscoped, [3] with the addition of charcoal drawings by Christopher Auchter, and a contemporary classical sound track by Daniel Janke. [4]
The film was the 2009 World Indigenous Film Awards Winner for Best Animation, and received the 2009 American Indian Film Festival Award, Best Animated Short. [5] [6] It received an award for Best Short Documentary at the 2009 Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, and the TEUEIKAN Second Prize at the 2009 First Peoples' Festival (Land InSights), Montréal. [7] The film was a finalist for the Writers Guild of Canada 2010 Screenwriting Award for Short Subjects. [8]