Five filmmaking teams from Victoria have won Indigenous Storyteller grants from Storyhive, the Telus-funded initiative that offers production and distribution opportunities for up-and-coming artists.
Storyhive and Creative B.C.聽awarded $600,000 in funding to 30 projects in B.C. and Alberta on Thursday. More than 150聽applicants were vying for the聽opportunity to receive production funding, training, mentorship and distribution support.
Filmmakers were each awarded $20,000 through Storyhive.
The winning projects from Victoria include: Dzunukwa, a stop-motion film narrated in the traditional language of Nakwala; My Father鈥檚 Footsteps, a documentary that follows an adult son as he endeavours to find the father, who has been missing since he was a child; Uu?uu~tah, a drama about a Nuu-chah-nulth whaler attempting to feed his village; Moving Voice, a documentary from Janet Rogers and Jackson 2bears about Mohawk poet Pauline Johnson; and The Camp(us), a documentary about the residential-school system and the future of Indigenous education.
Finished projects will run 10聽minutes in length, and will be featured on Telus platforms this fall.聽
