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.
Supported by
Community Partner
Joleen Mitton
Canada
2023
English
This short is featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 3
The femme experience as told through various disciplines and genres, each a distinctly inimitable perspective.
Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Producer
John Choi
Screenwriter
Sean Stiller
Cinematography
Sean Stiller
Original Music
David Schmidy
Editor
David Schmidt
Director
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.
VIFF Short Forum
See more shorts in this series:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 1
As time moves ever the more forward, histories are revisited. Some continue to be honoured while others are called for a reckoning.
VIFF Short Forum: Program 2
Get in for a rollercoaster journey through the depths of struggle and perseverance. Not for the faint of heart, this collection is as difficult as it is beautiful.
VIFF Short Forum: Program 3
The femme experience as told through various disciplines and genres, each a distinctly inimitable perspective.
VIFF Short Forum: Program 4
To locate one's self, the desire to be seen and the need to hide one’s desires are in constant negotiation.
VIFF Short Forum: Program 5
Cosmological, geological, and speculative potentials provide hope in periods of doubt and hardship.
Short Fuse
An innovative and eye-opening collection of animated and experimental Canadian shorts. A collection that inspires new approaches to the moving image on screen and re-imagines compelling perspectives, histories, memories and formative life experiences.