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Sep 13, 2020 · Monkey Beach: Directed by Loretta Todd. With Grace Dove, Adam Beach, Tina Lameman, Nathaniel Arcand. In an effort to turn her life around, a young indigenous woman returns to her hometown and discovers how dysfunctional her family has become.
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- Grace Dove, Adam Beach, Tina Lameman
- Loretta Todd
Monkey Beach is a supernatural mystery. Layering tragedy, humor and redemption, it tells the story of Lisa, a rebellious young woman who must accept her true heroic nature in order to save Jimmy ...
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- Adam Beach
- Loretta Todd
- Mama-Oo Productions
Mar 7, 2023 · Mama-oo Productions, Reunion Pacific Entertainment Do you think we mischaracterized a critic's review? Monkey Beach Reviews All Critics All ...
- 12 Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
- 11 Sgaawaay K’uuna
- 10 Call Me Human
- 9 Future History
- 8 This Ink Runs Deep
- 7 Monkey Beach
- 6 Beans
- 5 Blood Quantum
- 4 The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open
- 3 The Road Forward
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance was released in 1993, and made a splash domestically with Canadian awards for documentaries in addition to international ones. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin, an Abenaki American Canadian, Kanehsatakedocuments the 1990 Oka Crisis, which was a land dispute between people belonging to the Mohawk tribe and a Quebec t...
Released in 2018, Edge of the Knifeis the first feature-length film utilizing the language of the Haida people of western Canada and Alaska; all the dialogue is exclusively spoken in Haida. This language is now endangered, making movies like these even more significant. Set in Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, the movie retells a beloved Haida story...
The 2020 documentary Call Me Humantakes on an unfamiliar subject for many, but familiar to others: the Innu poet Joséphine Bacon. Born in Pessamit, a First Nations community located in Quebec, she spent an early portion of her life in a residential school — a story that is not uncommon for many children of her background. The documentary outlines h...
A Canadian documentary series for television, Future History finds its home on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, also known as APTN. Its hosts are Sarain Fox and Kris Nahrgang, two Indigenous people who come from different backgrounds and generations. Future History seeks to reclaim indigenous histories and heritages from the depths of the...
This Ink Runs Deep is a short documentary, but do not be fooled by its runtime of 16 minutes. The short focuses on tattoo artists of Indigenous ancestry seeking to reclaim the artistry that was lost among their tribes with colonization. Tattoos were an important part of many cultures before colonization, and efforts to reclaim this history and heri...
Loretta Todd’s first feature, Monkey Beach, came out in 2020 as an adaptation of the indigenous author Eden Robinson’s 2000 novel of the same name. Its protagonist is Lisamarie, a Haisla tribe member living in British Columbia. She is coping with the sudden disappearance of her brother, and the circumstances behind his vanishing are not entirely cl...
Tracey Deer, who came up with the documentary and television series Mohawk Girls, released the movie Beansin 2021. It features a young preteen named Tekehentahkhwa, affectionately known as “Beans,” and her life on a Mohawk reserve. Her family spots another family member protesting on television about Mohawk territory, specifically a cemetery, being...
A horror movie, Blood Quantum takes the concept of the zombie apocalypse and imagines what would happen if an outbreak occurred near a reserve. As the outside world succumbs to the zombies, the Indigenous residents on the reserve discover that because of the fact they are natives, they are immune. They cannot become zombies but can be eaten by them...
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is a quiet movie, but one with a lot of impact and meaning tucked into its story. The 2019 movie was written and directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn; Tailfeathers also stars in one of the leading roles. She portrays Áila, a woman who brings in another girl suffering from an abusive r...
Released in 2017, The Road Forward was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and was directed by Marie Clements. The documentary traces key events in the struggle for Indigenous rights in Canada, which increasingly began to get more coverage and protests in the thirties. Several members of key organizations involved in the fight for their r...
Production Companies. Mama-oo Productions. Reunion Pacific Entertainment. Special Effects. Od Studios (visual effects) Other Companies. Capilano University
The film's cast also includes Adam Beach, Nathaniel Arcand, Glen Gould, Tina Lameman and Ta'Kaiya Blaney. The film premiered at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival. Monkey Beach is a 2020 Canadian drama film, directed by Loretta Todd. Her debut narrative feature, the film is an adaptation of Eden Robinson's 2000 novel Monkey Beach.
Monkey Beach is a 2020 Canadian drama film, directed by Loretta Todd. Her debut narrative feature, the film is an adaptation of Eden Robinson's 2000 novel Monkey Beach.. The film stars Grace Dove as Lisamarie, a young Haisla woman in Kitamaat, British Columbia coming to terms with the mysterious disappearance of her brother Jimmy (Joel Oulette).
