Portraits From A Fire at The Movie Mill
Portraits From A Fire
SAAG Cinema is pleased to partner with the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF) to bring a selection of award-winning films. Coleen Rajotte, co-founder of WAFF, has been coordinating this incredible film festival in Winnipeg for 20 years. Rajotte will be in attendance to lead a discussion following each film.
Possessing more determination than discernible talent, teenage Tyler (William Magnus Lulua) routinely premieres his lo-fi DIY films on his reservation for a smattering of viewers who struggle to stay awake. Undaunted, he maintains the belief that he and his films are bound for bigger things — at the very least, they can be a bigger draw than bingo. Just as his new friend Aaron (Asivak Koostachin) practically manifests from the ether to provide him with some welcome encouragement, a DV tape resurfaces that casts new light on his family’s history and may just provide answers to questions that he’s long harboured.
TREVOR MACK is an award-winning filmmaker from the Tsilhqot'in nation of interior British Columbia, Canada. For Portraits from a Fire, Mack returns to the reserve where he grew up, delivering an accomplished, open-hearted first feature made about and in collaboration with his community. Mingling authenticity and invention, Mack employs recurring formal flourishes to illustrate the porousness of the membrane separating past and present. As Tyler abandons escapism in favour of unearthing difficult truths, Mack testifies that where there is trauma, there is likewise the opportunity for healing.
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Possessing more determination than discernible talent, teenage Tyler (William Magnus Lulua) routinely premieres his lo-fi DIY films on his reservation for a smattering of viewers who struggle to stay awake. Undaunted, he maintains the belief that he and his films are bound for bigger things — at the very least, they can be a bigger draw than bingo. Just as his new friend Aaron (Asivak Koostachin) practically manifests from the ether to provide him with some welcome encouragement, a DV tape resurfaces that casts new light on his family’s history and may just provide answers to questions that he’s long harboured.
TREVOR MACK is an award-winning filmmaker from the Tsilhqot'in nation of interior British Columbia, Canada. For Portraits from a Fire, Mack returns to the reserve where he grew up, delivering an accomplished, open-hearted first feature made about and in collaboration with his community. Mingling authenticity and invention, Mack employs recurring formal flourishes to illustrate the porousness of the membrane separating past and present. As Tyler abandons escapism in favour of unearthing difficult truths, Mack testifies that where there is trauma, there is likewise the opportunity for healing.
SAAG Cinema is pleased to partner with the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF) to bring a selection of award-winning films. Coleen Rajotte, co-founder of WAFF, has been coordinating this incredible film festival in Winnipeg for 20 years. Rajotte will be in attendance to lead a discussion following each film.
Possessing more determination than discernible talent, teenage Tyler (William Magnus Lulua) routinely premieres his lo-fi DIY films on his reservation for a smattering of viewers who struggle to stay awake. Undaunted, he maintains the belief that he and his films are bound for bigger things — at the very least, they can be a bigger draw than bingo. Just as his new friend Aaron (Asivak Koostachin) practically manifests from the ether to provide him with some welcome encouragement, a DV tape resurfaces that casts new light on his family’s history and may just provide answers to questions that he’s long harboured.
TREVOR MACK is an award-winning filmmaker from the Tsilhqot'in nation of interior British Columbia, Canada. For Portraits from a Fire, Mack returns to the reserve where he grew up, delivering an accomplished, open-hearted first feature made about and in collaboration with his community. Mingling authenticity and invention, Mack employs recurring formal flourishes to illustrate the porousness of the membrane separating past and present. As Tyler abandons escapism in favour of unearthing difficult truths, Mack testifies that where there is trauma, there is likewise the opportunity for healing.
Possessing more determination than discernible talent, teenage Tyler (William Magnus Lulua) routinely premieres his lo-fi DIY films on his reservation for a smattering of viewers who struggle to stay awake. Undaunted, he maintains the belief that he and his films are bound for bigger things — at the very least, they can be a bigger draw than bingo. Just as his new friend Aaron (Asivak Koostachin) practically manifests from the ether to provide him with some welcome encouragement, a DV tape resurfaces that casts new light on his family’s history and may just provide answers to questions that he’s long harboured.
TREVOR MACK is an award-winning filmmaker from the Tsilhqot'in nation of interior British Columbia, Canada. For Portraits from a Fire, Mack returns to the reserve where he grew up, delivering an accomplished, open-hearted first feature made about and in collaboration with his community. Mingling authenticity and invention, Mack employs recurring formal flourishes to illustrate the porousness of the membrane separating past and present. As Tyler abandons escapism in favour of unearthing difficult truths, Mack testifies that where there is trauma, there is likewise the opportunity for healing.
Portraits From A Fire
SAAG Cinema is pleased to partner with the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF) to bring a selection of award-winning films. Coleen Rajotte, co-founder of WAFF, has been coordinating this incredible film festival in Winnipeg for 20 years. Rajotte will be in attendance to lead a discussion following each film.
Possessing more determination than discernible talent, teenage Tyler (William Magnus Lulua) routinely premieres his lo-fi DIY films on his reservation for a smattering of viewers who struggle to stay awake. Undaunted, he maintains the belief that he and his films are bound for bigger things — at the very least, they can be a bigger draw than bingo. Just as his new friend Aaron (Asivak Koostachin) practically manifests from the ether to provide him with some welcome encouragement, a DV tape resurfaces that casts new light on his family’s history and may just provide answers to questions that he’s long harboured.
TREVOR MACK is an award-winning filmmaker from the Tsilhqot'in nation of interior British Columbia, Canada. For Portraits from a Fire, Mack returns to the reserve where he grew up, delivering an accomplished, open-hearted first feature made about and in collaboration with his community. Mingling authenticity and invention, Mack employs recurring formal flourishes to illustrate the porousness of the membrane separating past and present. As Tyler abandons escapism in favour of unearthing difficult truths, Mack testifies that where there is trauma, there is likewise the opportunity for healing.
