Sonya Ballantyne curates a series of her favourite films from the Winnipeg Film Group that includes friends, Neechis, and folk whose work she loves.
Portage Place
Dir. Tiff Bartel
3:28 | Documentary / Experimental | Colour | October 2019
Techniques: Live Action
Language: English
An ironic look at Winnipeg’s Portage Place shopping mall, from its opening day (September 17, 1987), to what may be its final days (fall of 2019). Created for the 2019 WNDX One Take Super 8 Challenge.
Backlanes
Dir. Madison Thomas
12:34 | Narrative/Fiction / Drama | Colour | September 2013
Language: English
On the night of their university graduation, five lifelong friends decide to pull one last all-nighter wandering the back lanes of their town. What seems like a night of fun and goofing around is soon overshadowed by the groups fear of the future as well as the mortality of their ill friend Chloe.
Exploitation
Dir. Luther Alexander
4:50 | Drama | Colour | November 2014
Language: English
In Canada’s backyard, a colonial history of oppression and cultural genocide against Aboriginal women has created a vicious cycle of poverty, greed, addiction and abuse. And in the streets these women must overcome their situations in order to survive and at the same time, have their stories known and understood.
Nosisim
Dir. Sonya Ballantyne
10:31 | Documentary | Colour | May 2017
Language: English
In Nosisim, Sonya Ballantyne learns of her grandmother’s traumatic past through a drawing titled ‘Virginia and Gladys’ by famed Indigenous artist Daphne Odjig. This masterful rendition of Sonya’s grandmother and mother, Virginia and Gladys George, was done shortly after they were forced from their home due to a manmade hydroelectric dam.
Mémére Métisse
Dir. Janelle Wookey
30:00 | Documentary | Colour | October 2008
Language: English, French
For over sixty years, Cecile St. Amant has been keeping a deep secret – she is Métis. Cecile’s granddaughter, Janelle, sets out to understand her Mémére’s denial and playfully plots her own mission to open her Mémére’s eyes to the richness of their heritage. As the two face-off in a battle of the wills, Janelle soon realizes that her Mémére will not be easily convinced that being Métis is something to be proud of. In this heartwarming and extraordinary journey, Janelle’s mischievous and persistent prodding of her grandmother reveals a generation’s legacy of shame and the profound courage of the human spirit to overcome it.
Kewekapawetan: Return after the Flood
Dir. Jennifer Dysart
28:55 | Documentary | Colour, B&W | June 2014
Techniques: Live Action
Language: English, Cree
A Cree community in northern Manitoba Canada returns to their original village site that they were forced to abandon due to the purposeful flooding of their lake.
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