Mia'
Catalogue Number: WFG009
Producer: Winnipeg Film Group Inc.
Producers: Strong, Amanda and Hanuse Corlett, Bracken
Directors: Strong, Amanda and Hanuse Corlett, Bracken
Producing Agencies: Spotted Fawn Productions
Subject: Animation, Arts, Canadian History, Canadian Social Issues, Documentary, Environmental Studies, First Nations Studies, History, Indigenous Issues, Indigenous Peoples, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Social Studies, Tech/Voc
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2015
Running Time: 8:08
A young Indigenous female street artist named Mia’ walks through the city streets painting scenes rooted in the supernatural history of her people. Lacking cultural resources and familial connection within the city, she paints these images from intuition and blood memory. She has not heard the stories from her Elders' lips, but has found her own methods to rediscover them. The alley ways become her sanctuary and secret gallery, and her art comes to life. Mia’ is pulled into her own transformation via the vessel of a salmon. In the struggle to return home, she traverses through polluted waters and skies, witnessing various forms of industrial violence and imprint that have occurred upon the land.
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