Tracey Deer (4)
Tracey Deer
Cinéaste dynamique et polyvalente kanien’kéhaka (mohawk) de Kahnawake, Tracy Deer fait des documentaires et de la fiction, tant à titre de productrice et de réalisatrice que de scénariste. Mohawk Girls (2005), portrait captivant d’un groupe d’adolescentes de sa réserve natale, a remporté le Prix Alanis-Obomsawin du meilleur documentaire au festival imagineNATIVE; Tracy Deer a par la suite adapté le film en une télésérie à succès. On lui doit aussi Club Native, qui explore les règles contestées sur le degré de sang indien, et Kanien’kehá:ka: Living the Language, sur un programme d’immersion linguistique en kanien’kehá:ka. En 2006, elle a fondé la maison Mohawk Princess Pictures, vouée à refléter « les réalités complexes de la vie autochtone moderne. »
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Crossing the LineTracey Deer 2009 3 minFilmmaker Tracey Deer's short film turns the politics and conflicts of a playground sandbox into an allegory for the way nations treat one another, and the borders seem to do more harm than good. -
Club NativeTracey Deer 2008 1 h 18 minTracey Deer grew up on the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake with two very firm but unspoken rules drummed into her by the collective force of the community. These rules were very simple and they carried severe repercussions: 1) Do not marry a white person, 2) Do not have a child with a white person.
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St-Henri, the 26th of AugustShannon Walsh , Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette , … 2011 1 h 25 minA collaborative work made in the spirit of cinéma-vérité, St-Henri, the 26th of August was directed by Shannon Walsh and16 fellow documentary filmmakers. Chronicling life in a former working-class Montreal neighbourhood over a 24-hour period, St-Henri, the 26th of August follows several compelling stories and characters. The film is an homage to the 1962 Hubert Aquin classic À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre.
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Mohawk GirlsTracey Deer 2005 1 h 2 minShot over two years, Mohawk Girls provides a surprising inside look at modern Indigenous youth culture. Deeply emotional yet unsentimental, it reveals the hope, despair, heartache and promise of growing up Indigenous at the beginning of the 21st century.
