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Trevor Mack

Birth : , Vancouver, BC

History

Trevor Mack is an award-winning Tsilhqot'in nation filmmaker from the interior of British Columbia, Canada. Raised by his mother and family on the Tl'etinqox reserve, his culture and upbringing provided a strong foundation for storytelling expressed through his current film work. Mack started his film career at 17 years old when he helped create a freelance video editing and motion graphics group called 'Viral Design'. The group secured contracts to produce promotional videos for companies such as Red Bull, Gunnar Optiks, and Steelseries. In 2013, at 21 years old, he debuted his first short film, The Blanketing. It screened across North America and in New Zealand at festivals such as the Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival, Toronto Independent Film Festival, and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival among others. Mack's second short film, Clouds of Autumn, debuted at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 among others. Clouds of Autumn received the 'Best Canadian Short Drama' award at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and 'Best Cinematography' at the 2016 Air Canada enRoute Film Festival. In the spring of 2016, Mack was chosen to direct seven episodes of the acclaimed APTN series The Other Side, which aired on broadcast TV in October 2016. Currently, he is working with Kathleen Hepburn on the script for the feature film 'Out of the Barren' with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. Mack's new short ʔEtsu (Grandmother) made its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It screens at the Vancouver International Film Festival in October 2017.

Movies

Portraits from a Fire

Portraits from a Fire

Director

An Indigenous teenage boy fights through distorting realities as a family secret unravels.

In the Valley Of Wild Horses

In the Valley Of Wild Horses

Director

Every summer, the community of Xeni Gwet’in travels 200 km by horse and wagon from their home in Nemiah Valley to the famous Williams Lake stampede to honour a 94-year tradition of inclusion, trade and relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

Director

A local Spanish girl and a foreigner meet on the dreamy streets of Barcelona and share a deep and immediate connection.

Producer

On an isolated reservation in Canada, a young boy searches for a connection to his deceased grandmother through an old VHS camcorder.

Co-Writer

On an isolated reservation in Canada, a young boy searches for a connection to his deceased grandmother through an old VHS camcorder.

Director

On an isolated reservation in Canada, a young boy searches for a connection to his deceased grandmother through an old VHS camcorder.

Warrior (uncredited)

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.

Clouds of Autumn

Clouds of Autumn

Editor

The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from home.

Clouds of Autumn

Clouds of Autumn

Writer

The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from home.

Clouds of Autumn

Clouds of Autumn

Director

The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from home.

Millennium Line

Millennium Line

Himself

On the surface: finishing 'Clouds of Autumn'; a film for the sake of making one - meant to be watched on the internet, digital's greatest commodity is not $$$$ but time, and a new process, painters and poets, the personal costs $0, fuelled by ideas, reflections, 3 isolated days of editing, the next station is -

Director

A confrontation between a tribe of First Nations people and two road builders will change an entire nation forever.