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Kuessipan
''Kuessipan'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Myriam Verreault and released in 2019. An adaptation of Naomi Fontaine's eponymous novel, the script was co-written by Fontaine and Verreault. Its plot centres on Mikuan (Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao) and Shaniss (Yamie Grégoire), two young Innu people, Innu women in Uashat-Maliotenam, whose friendship is strained when Mikuan falls in love with a white man (Étienne Galloy) and plans to move away. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was a critical success, garnering praise for its cast and portrayal of Indigenous lives. Its theatrical release on October 4, 2019. Plot The film centers on Mikuan and Shaniss, two childhood friends who grow up together in Uashat. Their lives diverge during high school, when Shaniss drops out and has a baby with her abusive boyfriend Greg while Mikuan plans to move away from the reservation and attend university in Quebec City so that she can follow her dream of bec ...
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Naomi Fontaine
Naomi Fontaine is a Canadians, Canadian writer from Quebec, noted as one of the most prominent First Nations in Canada, First Nations writers in contemporary francophone Canadian literature. She is a member of the Innu nation. Biography A member of the Innu nation from Uashat, Quebec, she studied education at the Université Laval."Naomi Fontaine revient aux sources avec Manikanetish"
. ''Ici Radio-Canada Première, Les malins'', September 23, 2017.
Her 2011 debut novel ''Kuessipan'' received an honourable mention from the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie in 2012. ''Kuessipan'' is an meditative novel about life in the wilds of northeastern Quebec. Fontaine wrote this novel in ...
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8th Canadian Screen Awards
The 8th Canadian Screen Awards were presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television from 25–28 May 2020 to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2019. The presentations were held as a series of virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nominations were announced on 18 February, with François Girard'''s'' '' The Song of Names'' leading in film nominations with 9, and Dan and Eugene Levy's sitcom ''Schitt's Creek'' leading in television with 26 nominations. Sophie Deraspe's '' Antigone'' would be the most-awarded film and win Best Motion Picture'','' while ''Cardinal'' would be the most-awarded television series. Ceremony information The ceremony was originally scheduled to be held on 29 March 2020.
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Nicolas Canniccioni
Nicolas Canniccioni is a Canadian cinematographer. In 2009, Canniccioni served as additional director of photography for Xavier Dolan's '' I Killed My Mother''. In 2015, he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary with Jean-Pierre St-Louis for '' Where I'm From''. With director Simon Lavoie, he began shooting the film ''The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches'' on 4 September 2016 in Montreal and the Laurentides. Canniccioni and Lavoie chose to shoot in black and white, with Canniccioni employing a Red Epic Monochrome 6K camera. He was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography. At the 7th Canadian Screen Awards, Canniccioni was nominated for Best Cinematography in a Documentary for '' First Stripes''. He shot ''Kuessipan'' (2019) in Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam and Sept-Îles, Quebec. For ''Kuessipan'', he was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards. Filmography His films ...
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Amélie Labrèche
Amélie Labrèche is a Canadian film editor from Montreal, Quebec.Élise Brouillette"Une soirée faste pour Amélie Labrèche" ''L'Action'', June 8, 2021. She is most noted as co-winner with Olivier Higgins of the Prix Iris for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021, for their work on the film '' Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Errance sans retour)''."La déesse des mouches à feu se distingue au Gala Artisans Québec Cinéma"
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Myriam Verreault
Myriam Verreault is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.Éric Moreault"Myriam Verreault: Construire un pont entre les nations" ''Le Soleil'', September 27, 2019. She is most noted for her 2019 film ''Kuessipan'', for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, and two Prix Iris nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards. Her other works have included the feature film '' West of Pluto (À l'ouest de Pluton)'', co-directed with Henry Bernadet, and the web documentary '' My Tribe Is My Life (Ma tribu c'est ma vie)'', as well as an editing credit on Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier's 2013 documentary film '' Québékoisie''. In 2020 she was the patron and curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in Rivière-du-Loup. In 2024, Verreault was announced as directing a film adaptation of Emmanuelle Pierrot's award-winning 2023 novel ''La ...
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Innu People
The Innu/Ilnu ('man, person'), formerly called Montagnais (French for ' mountain people'; ), are the Indigenous Canadians who inhabit northeastern Labrador in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador and some portions of Quebec. They refer to their traditional homeland as '' Nitassinan'' ('Our Land', ᓂᑕᔅᓯᓇᓐ) or ''Innu-assi'' ('Innu Land'). The ancestors of the modern First Nations were known to have lived on these lands as hunter-gatherers for many thousands of years. To support their seasonal hunting migrations, they created portable tents made of animal skins. Their subsistence activities were historically centred on hunting and trapping caribou, moose, deer, and small game. Their language, which changed over time from Old Montagnais to Innu-aimun (popularly known since the French colonial era as Montagnais), is spoken throughout Nitassinan, with certain dialect differences. It is part of the Cree–Montagnais– Naskapi dialect continuum, and is unrelate ...
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2019 Toronto International Film Festival
The 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 September 2019. The opening gala was the documentary film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band'', directed by Daniel Roher, and the festival closed with a screening of the biographical film ''Radioactive'', directed by Marjane Satrapi. Awards In addition to its regular film awards, whose winners were announced at the conclusion of the festival, the festival also announced the inaugural TIFF Tribute Awards, a special program to honour distinguished lifetime achievement in film. Tribute Awards were presented to Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix for acting, Taika Waititi for directing, cinematographer Roger Deakins for artisan film craft, Mati Diop for emerging talent, Participant Media for impact media, and David Foster for special contributions to film. The first award recipients were announced on 12 September, with the major awards announced at the close of the festival on 15 Septembe ...
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Étienne Galloy
Étienne Galloy is a Canadian actor and filmmaker from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance as Stefie in the 2016 film ''Prank'', for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017. He has also appeared in the films '' Little Brother (Petit frère)'', ''Genesis (Genèse)'', '' Before We Explode (Avant qu'on explose)'', '' Heart Bomb (Une bombe au cœur)'', ''Kuessipan'' and '' Evergreen$ (Sapin$)'', and the television series ''No More Parents'', ''Marc-en-Peluche'', ''Karl & Max'', ''GAME(R)'' and ''Olivier''. '' The Marina (La Marina)'', which he co-directed with Christophe Levac as both actors' directorial debut film, was released in 2020.Maxime Demers"Le beau parcours de La Marina" ''Le Journal de Montréal is a daily French-language tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Quebec and is also the largest French-language daily newspaper ...
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Yamie Grégoire
Yamie Grégoire is an Innu actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film ''Kuessipan'' (2019), for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.Norman Wilner"Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show" ''Now Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to: Organizations * Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization * National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization * Na ...'', February 18, 2020. References External links * 21st-century Canadian actresses 21st-century First Nations people 21st-century First Nations women Actresses from Quebec Canadian film actresses First Nations actresses Innu people Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-film-actor-stub ...
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Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao
Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao is an Innu actress from Canada.Sylvain Turcotte"Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao se plaît à jouer" ''Le Nord-Côtier'', August 2, 2022. She is most noted for her role in the film ''Kuessipan'', for which she received a Prix Iris Prix was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1975 by Tommy Hoehn and Jon Tiven. The group ended up primarily as a studio project. Its recordings were produced by Tiven along with former Big Star member Chris Bell, who ... nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020. She has also appeared in the television series ''Toute la vie'' and ''Les Perles'', and on stage in Philippe Ducros's ''La cartomancie du territoire''.Daniel Côté"L’auteur Philippe Ducros présente la pièce La cartomancie du territoire" '' Le Quotidien'', November 19, 2021. References External links * 21st-century Canadian actresses 21st-century First Nations people 21st-century First Nations women ...
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Douglas Grégoire
Douglas Grégoire (born August 27, 1996) is an Innu actor and filmmaker from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film ''Kuessipan'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.Norman Wilner"Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show" ''Now Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to: Organizations * Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization * National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization * Na ...'', February 18, 2020. References External links * 1996 births 21st-century First Nations people Canadian male film actors Male actors from Quebec First Nations male actors Innu people Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-film-actor-stub ...
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Canadian Screen Awards
The Canadian Screen Awards () are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media ( web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the awards recognize excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television (English-language) and film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers, artists, and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia, the IFTA Awards in Ireland, the César Awards in France and the Goya Awards in Spain. History The award's historic root ...
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