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Tkaronto
Anishinaabe painter Jolene (McLaren) and part-Métis TV writer Ray (Murray) form an instant connection after a chance encounter. Both have come to the city with big hopes for their futures, and stand at a crossroads; Ray came to pitch his TV series Indian Jones, which he hopes will be his big break, and Jolene has an interview with an elder, who presents her with an unexpected gift that she feels she doesn’t deserve. Together, they embark on a search for meaning, sharing experiences of hope and fear and reflecting on urban Indigenous reality.
Belcourt’s multi-award winning Tkaronto was the closing night film at the 2007 imagineNATIVE Festival and won the Best Director Award at the Dreamspeakers Festival.
Director
Shane Belcourt (Métis)
Belcourt is a producer, writer, and filmmaker whose directing credits include numerous shorts such as Pookums, Boxed In, and Say Yes, as well as the features Tkaronto, Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier (which won the Alanis Obomsawin Award at ImagineNATIVE), Red Rover, Beautiful Scars of Tom Wilson, and Warrior Song. He also directed two Heritage Minutes for Historica Canada, as well as episodes of Urban Native Girl, CBC Docs POV, and Amplify.
Writer
Shane Belcourt (Métis)
Cast
Duane Murray, Melanie McLaren (Ojibwe), Lorne Cardinal, Cheri Maracle (Mohawk)
Producers
Shane Belcourt (Métis), Duane Murray, Jordan O'Connor, Michael Corbiere
Genre
Drama
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
KinoSmith
