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Ancestral Threads

BC Premiere

Using fashion as medicine for Vancouver’s Indigenous community, founder Joleen Mitton takes us behind-the-scenes at Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week. Featuring interviews with Musqueam weaver and artist Debra Sparrow and Dene fashion designer D’arcy Moses.

 

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Director
Cast

Joleen Mitton

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2023

Language

English

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18+
12 min

Credits

Producer

John Choi

Screenwriter

Sean Stiller

Cinematography

Sean Stiller

Original Music

David Schmidy

Editor

David Schmidt

Director

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Sean Stiller

Sean Stiller is an award-winning filmmaker specializing in documentary, Indigenous, commercial and commissioned films. Over the past seven years he has worked on a variety of productions, from TV series to feature length films and branded documentary series, as well as his own original projects. He is a 2020 recipient of the HotDocs CrossCurrents fund. His first feature length documentary, Returning Home, won best Canadian feature documentary at the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival and the Edmonton International Film Festival. He is a member of the William’s Lake First Nation (T’exelc), part of the Secwépemc Nation.

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