With the dust fully settled on the Academy Awards, we point our attention northward with tonight’s 2014 Canadian Screen Awards. Many of the television winners have already been announced in glitzy fashion during this Canadian Screen Week, but with baited breath, we’re more keen on seeing how the film award honors will pan out. Last year’s Tiff saw Denis Villeneuve bring not one (Prisoners), but a pair of feature films and it is the offbeat, doppelgänger delight Enemy that should reap in the top awards of the evening. Here are my predictions of who will win, who should win, and who should have been nominated in each of the most anticipated film categories.
Best Motion Picture:
The nominees are: Enemy, The Dismantlement, Empire of Dirt, The F Word, Gabrielle, The Grand Seduction, Maina, Tom at the Farm
Screenie voters tend to favor Canada’s yearly submission for the...
Best Motion Picture:
The nominees are: Enemy, The Dismantlement, Empire of Dirt, The F Word, Gabrielle, The Grand Seduction, Maina, Tom at the Farm
Screenie voters tend to favor Canada’s yearly submission for the...
- 3/9/2014
- by Leora Heilbronn
- IONCINEMA.com
DVD Release Date: Feb. 25, 2014
Price: DVD $27.95
Studio: First Run Features
The 2011 documentary film People of a Feather by Joel Heath takes viewers through time into the world of the Inuit in the northern reaches of Canada.
Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather presents the the Inuit’s unique relationship with the eider duck, an indigenous species that connects the Inuit’s past, present and future. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters.
Changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the massive hydroelectric dams powering eastern North America bring modern challenges to these Arctic residents.
Inspired by Inuit ingenuity and the amazing properties of the eider feather, the People of a Feather acts as a call to action to implement energy solutions that work with nature.
Presented in English and Inuktitut with English subtitles,...
Price: DVD $27.95
Studio: First Run Features
The 2011 documentary film People of a Feather by Joel Heath takes viewers through time into the world of the Inuit in the northern reaches of Canada.
Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather presents the the Inuit’s unique relationship with the eider duck, an indigenous species that connects the Inuit’s past, present and future. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters.
Changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the massive hydroelectric dams powering eastern North America bring modern challenges to these Arctic residents.
Inspired by Inuit ingenuity and the amazing properties of the eider feather, the People of a Feather acts as a call to action to implement energy solutions that work with nature.
Presented in English and Inuktitut with English subtitles,...
- 1/30/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Set in Canada's Hudson Bay, Joel Heath's People of a Feather observes the Inuit peoples as their trade — selling eider duck feathers as down — is jeopardized by hydroelectric dams whose operations endanger the ducks in the bay.
Though the science behind this ecosystem change is clearly conveyed, Heath never puts together a larger narrative about the decline of Inuit culture and offers little political history of the situation.
Yet far from a talking-head doc, the film contains many vérité sequences following Inuit as they go about their routines — hunting ducks, collecting feathers, hunting seals.
The raw and simple scenes of Inuit life offer an elemental cinematic tension. Who wouldn't want to watch someone ice-fishing f...
Though the science behind this ecosystem change is clearly conveyed, Heath never puts together a larger narrative about the decline of Inuit culture and offers little political history of the situation.
Yet far from a talking-head doc, the film contains many vérité sequences following Inuit as they go about their routines — hunting ducks, collecting feathers, hunting seals.
The raw and simple scenes of Inuit life offer an elemental cinematic tension. Who wouldn't want to watch someone ice-fishing f...
- 11/5/2013
- Village Voice
People Of A Feather Movie Review First Run Features Reviewed for Neviw York Cool by Harvey Karten. Data-based on RottenTomatoes.com Grade: B- Director: Joel Heath Screenwriter: Joel Heath, Dinah Kavik, Johnny Kudluarok, Community of Sanikiluaq Cast: Community of Sanikiluaq Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 10/23/13 Opens: November 8, 2013 “Dam, dam, dam, dam,” to paraphrase Henry Higgins from the musical “My Fair Lady” (without the n letter). Higgins complained that he had grown accustomed to the face of Eliza Doolittle, but such a concern dwarfs when compared to the cavils of a group of Inuit and Cree people living in the Canadian Arctic. They fear that the [ Read More ]
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- 11/3/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Director Joel Heath's (pictured above, in the center) award-winning documentary People Of A Feather explores both the aboriginal culture of Canada's Inuit and their relationship to the rapidly changing environment of their Arctic home. The realistic portrait Heath reveals is one of a unique hybrid, equal parts ancient tradition and the inescapable influence of modernity.
Read more on Director Joel Heath on his award-winning documentary, People Of A Feather...
Read more on Director Joel Heath on his award-winning documentary, People Of A Feather...
- 3/6/2012
- by Rachel Fox
- GordonandtheWhale
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