Finding focus framing Canadian Métis and First Nations on film

DVD 2014

Finding Focus is a resource guide and DVD designed to help High School educators utilize the wealth of creative short films made by talented independent filmmakers in Manitoba and across Canada that focus on Métis and First Nations issues and subject matters. It is our hope that this book and these films, which are about diverse subject matters and are made in a wide range of genres and styles, will assist both teachers and students. These films...

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ISBN:

9781926665047
192666504X

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1`book (78 pages ; 28 cm)
polychrome
digital
optical
video file
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Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Other Title:

Winnipeg Film Group presents Finding focus

Notes:

Canadiana
Accompanied by DVD
"A resource guide for high school educators."
Book features 15 chapters, each focusing on a short film 30 minutes or less, dealing with Métis and First Nations issues. Topics for discussion are included in Before Viewing, During Viewing and After Viewing sections
"Recommended for use with the following high school courses: English Language Arts: Grades 10-12; Social Studies: Grade 12, Current Topics in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies; Social Studies: Grade 11, History of Canada; Aboriginal Education: Grades 10-12, Aboriginal Languages and Cultures Social Studies: Grade 12, Cinema as a Witness to Modern History."
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Contents:

M?m?re m?tisse by Janelle Wookey
Meskanahk (My path) by Kevin Lee Burton
I'm M?tis by L. Christian Goulet
Choir boy lucky by Ruth DeGraves
Two scoops by Jackie Traverse
Against the grain : the legacy of the Indian Residential School system by Curtis Mandeville
Empty by Jackie Traverse
Thicket portage by Gregory Zbitnew (22 min excerpt from Muskeg special)
Alice and Kevin by Sam Vint
Tashina by Caroline Monnet
Overburden by Warren Cariou & Neil McArthur
A good indian by Andrew George
Indian by Darryl Nepinak
504938C by Ervin Chartrand
Ikw? by Caroline Monnet

Control Number:

3122532

UPC:

978192666504

Other Authors:

Lowe, Monica, 1978- editor
Winnipeg Film Group, issuing body

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