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Cloud Striker

World Premiere

Set in the 1930s, Chief Cloud Striker is on a quest to find his son Elijah, who has been forcibly taken from home and placed in Saint Ignatius Indian Residential School.

 

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Community Partner

Director
Cast

Kymo Van Oers, Jonathan Fraser-Monroe, Neil Charlesworth, Jennifer Lines

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2022

Language

English

Film Contact
Content Warning

Depictions of Racism, Colonial Violence

18+
17 min

Credits

Executive Producer

Andrew Currie

Producer

Abubakar Khan, Kent Donguines

Screenwriter

A.W. Hopkins

Cinematography

Alfonso Chin

Editor

Kyle Sanborn

Art Director

Oscar Yeung

Director

A.W. Hopkins headshot

A.W. Hopkins

A.W. Hopkins is Interior Salish and a member of N’Quatqua First Nation.’ His first feature film, Indian Road Trip, won Best BC Director at the 2020 Whistler Film Festival. He also won an Honorable Mention for Best Screenplay in the Borsos Film Competition. He has directed two short films, Shin Chi’s Canoe and FlyPaper. After winning the DGC BC Greenlight Awards competition, his new film, Cloud Striker is on its way to the festival circuit. In 2021, A.W. attended the Canadian Film Center Directors Lab. He holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA) in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia where he focused on writing for screen.

Filmography: Cloud Striker (2023); Flypaper (2022); Shin-chi’s Canoe (2019); Indian Road Trip (2020)

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