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Year of prod. |
2009 |
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Country |
Canada |
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Running time |
52 min. |
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Director |
Denis Boivin |
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Script |
Denis Boivin |
| Production |
K8e K8e inc. |
| Producers |
Denis Boivin,
Luc Lainé |
| Music |
Gaëtan
Sioui "Sondaky" |
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DOP |
Hans David Campbell |
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Sound |
Daniel Basque,
Jonathan Gagné |
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Editor |
Joël Ferland |
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Actor |
Marco
Bacon |
| Versions |
English (subtitled)
French
Innu |
| Financial
contributions |
| Canadian Television Fund,
Canadian Film and Video Fund, Tax Credit Programs (Quebec and Canada),
TFO, Ataro, Productions de Films Dionysos |
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 His own native tongue is in decline back home, Marco, an Innu from Mashteuiash Quebec, wants to know why the members of the Huron-Wendat nation only speak French. He then decides to travel to the land where they first encountered Champlain in the year 1615; their ancestral territories, where no Wendat live today. What really happened after the infamous massacre of 1649? His investigation reveals that prior to the foundation of the cities of Quebec and Montreal, there lived the promise of francophonie in the New World.
Director's biofilmography
Born in Quebec City (Province of Quebec, Canada).
After university studies in communication and cinema, Denis Boivin has signed in 1977 a
first documentary, L'Age dort, that became the most broadcasted documentary in
the Province of Quebec between 1979 and 1985. Since that moment, he has produced and
directed many documentaries as a genuine independant filmmaker. Among them: the famous and
very sensitive Le Pardon (Forgiveness) (Henri-Langlois Press Award 1992, Best
Documentary Festival Tours 1992, Can-Pro Award 1993, 2 Gemini mentions) and Le Pèlerin
(The Pilgrim), a biography of John-Paul II by his contemporaries' eyes (Gen.
Jaruzelski, Lech Walesa, friends, students.) He has made many productions for Children:
short films, documentaries - for example The Dance of the Children - and TV programs.
Since a few years, Boivin is turning to fiction films, producing two international
festival award winner shorts. Born near the Huron Village of Wendake, just outside Québec
City, he has returned to his Native roots for inspiration as he offers an original look at
an unknown aspect of life among Canada's First Nations in his first feature film: Attache ta tuque!
(Hold on to your Hat!) Since that time, he has directed Healing Words, 6
documentaries shot in First Nations Villages and five TV program series for Children : Mikuan. |
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