Billy Merasty
Nascimento : 1960-01-01, Brochet, Manitoba, Canada
História
Billy Merasty is an actor, playwright, Cree translator, and language keeper. He was born to Viola and Pierre Merasty in 1960 in Brochet, Manitoba. His grandfather was Joe Highway, a famous caribou hunter and champion dogsled racer. He moved to Toronto at age eighteen in search for his uncle René Highway, who was at the time working for the Toronto Dance Theatre. At age twenty-three Billy launched his acting career after graduating from the Native Theatre School for aspiring Indigenous artists. He then went on to work for the renowned Indigenous performing arts company Native Earth Performing Arts. Billy has worked as a film, television, and stage actor for decades and notably played the first Indigenous gay character on television on the CBC series, Liberty Street, in the role of Nathan. Billy received the Order of Manitoba (Order of the Buffalo Hunt) in recognition for his many years as an Indigenous role model in 2010.
Auntie 1
Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based within Indigenous knowledge and way of life, this story allows two people to heal, through touch, calm, love and patience in a fantastical space that leaves the audience dreamlike and yet it is dangerous and violent, there is love.
William Bearclaw
An Indigenous woman reluctantly returns to her isolated reserve to help her father care for her bitter mother.
Shokopiwah Man
Vinte e sete anos após o Clube dos Otários derrotar Pennywise, It está de volta. Agora adultos Os Otários seguiram com suas vidas, mas com os recentes desaparecimentos em Derry, Mike resolve reunir o grupo novamente. Perturbados pelo passado, eles precisam vencer seus medos para destruir Pennywise, que está ainda mais perigoso, de uma vez por todas.
John Norton
Mohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors hold off American soldiers until reinforcements arrive and the Battle of Queenston Heights is won (1812).
Jacob
Na esperança de deixar para trás os dias conturbados no Departamento de Polícia de Baltimore, Burns Nate se muda para o Alaska, onde ele tem uma vida tranquila como xerife de uma cidade pequena e começa um romance com Meg Galligan. No entanto, quando o pai dela aparece morto, Burns se vê arrastado para o centro das atenções da investigação de um perigoso assassinato.
Elijah Harper
The story of Elijah Harper.....
Young Man Afraid
Iniciando logo após a sangrenta vitória dos Sioux sobre o General Custer em Little Big Horn, a história é contada através de duas perspectivas únicas: Charles Eastman, um jovem médico de origem Sioux criado por brancos, apresentado como a prova viva do alegado sucesso na assimilação da cultura branca pelos índios, e Touro Sentado, o orgulhoso chefe Lakota cuja tribo foi a maior vencedora da batalha de Little Big Horn.
Cam
Paul Barnell (Robin Williams) é um agente de viagens que trabalha no Alasca. Ele passa por sérios problemas financeiros, mas tem um plano para sair de suas dificuldades: sacar a apólice do seguro de vida de seu irmão desaparecido há cinco anos. Com o dinheiro, Paul poderia pagar todas as suas dívidas e ainda prover auxílio médico à sua esposa, que sofre da síndrome de Tourette. A seguradora, porém, recusa o pagamento declarando que não há certeza sobre a morte do seu irmão. Pouco depois, Paul encontra um cadáver atrás de sua loja. Ele pretende usar o corpo num plano macabro para conseguir o dinheiro do seguro.
Owashak
Em meados do século XVIII, a França e a Inglaterra estão em disputa pelo domínio da colônia canadense Nova França. Em meio à disputa é a igreja quem oferece consolo à população, com o padre Thomas Blondeau (Gérard Depardieu) sendo bastante respeitado. Entretanto o padre Thomas sente uma intensa paixão pela jovem viúva Marie (Noémie Godin-Vigneau), o que faz com que traia sua confiança e a afaste propositalmente de seu grande amor, o aristocrata François Le Gardeur (David La Haye).
Zachary John
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990’s.
Moose
The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel (16), unmarried and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young priest, under the confidentiality of the confessional. In the present year of 1989, Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc, who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Quebec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrigue where the answer to the mystery lies.
Kocoum
Englishmen come to explore and settle the new world. There they find natives who are curious about their "firesticks" and strange customs.
Mawaki
A mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon territory in this Jack London-based tale.
Man at opera
Exotica é o nome de uma casa de striptease, em que a história de vários personagens começam a se ligar de maneira dramática.
Nathan Jones
A man is asked by his parents to run an apartment complex they own and becomes acquainted with an intriguing hippie girl and various other people from all walks of life who live there.
Frank Cree
Fact-based story of an idealistic single dad who discovers that his beloved Native American adopted son is afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and complicates his life with the woman who becomes his wife.
Mathew Hare
Three Ojibway Natives race to find a mystical ancestral spring before a ruthless industrialist claim it.
Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has finally left his alcoholic and abusive father and now lives among the Indians, Guy's childhood friends and neighbours. He also discovers friction between the white farmers and the local Indians, now faced with the choice of selling or retaining their land. A choice made harder by poverty. Guy's boyhood friend, Tom Redfox, leads those Indians who wish to keep their land. Against the background of ensuing confrontation, Guy becomes reacquainted with his estranged parents, his childhood friends and old values, leading to a tragedy that affect the whole community.
