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Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, Barry Lyndon, Intemperance skims the controversial persona of Canada’s first literary celebrity to the United States, George Copway that includes a vexed re-enacment from his 1850 best-selling book, The Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation.

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Retake follows the journey of co-directors Gwaai Edenshaw (Haida) and Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot'in) as they work to produce The Edge of the Knife, a feature-length film told entirely in the critically-endangered Haida language. The film tells the story of a traditional Haida legend, showcasing the Haida culture in many ways.

Canada / Norway Co-Production
2019 / 105 mins / Colour / English / Drama / Canada / Norway





THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN

Co-Writers/Co-Directors: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn
Produced by: Tyler Hagan & Lori Lozinski
Producer: Alan R. Milligan
Co-Producer: Dyveke Graver
Cinematographer: Norm Li
Cast: Violet Nelson, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Funding: Telefilm Canada, CBC Films, Norweigan Film Institute, International Sami Film Institute, Telus Storyhive, The Harold Greenberg Fund, Creative BC

Company: Experimental Forest Films / Violator Films / Tannhauser Gate / Oslo Pictures

When Áila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman, Rosie, has just escaped a violent assault at the hands of her boyfriend. Áila decides to bring Rosie home with her and over the course of the evening, the two navigate the aftermath of this traumatic event. Inspired by a very real and transformative moment in the co-director Elle-Máijá Tailfeather's life, THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN weaves an intricately complex, while at the same time very simple, story of a chance encounter between two Indigenous women with drastically different lived experience, navigating the aftermath of domestic abuse.





making of video

Sales Canada: Violator Films, Experimental Forest Films
Sales International: ARRAY Releasing

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Press

trailer

experiential forest

array releasing

Awards and Festivals

Canadian Screen Awards for Best Screenplay, Best
Direction; Best Cinematography
Toronto Film Critics Award for Best Canadian Film
TIFF - Honourable Mention: Best Canadian Film
Festival du Nouveau Cinema 2019 - Grand Prix Nationale
Competition
imagineNATIVE 2019 - Best Dramatic Feature Film
Vancouver International Film Festival 2019 - Best BC Film;
Best BC Emerging Filmmaker (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers)

World Premiere - Berlin International Film Festival
North American Premiere - Toronto International Film Festival
Honourable Mention - CANADA GOOSE® AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN FEATURE FILM - Toronto International Film Festival
Best BC Film Award - Vancouver International Film Festival
ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM AWARD - Toronto Critics Association - The TFCA’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award is Canada’s richest arts prize. The director of the winning film, voted by members of the TFCA, receives $100,000 from Rogers Communications Inc.

Violator Films Inc is a Vancouver based  independent film and television production company that has been telling maverick stories since 2007.