Set two lifetimes in the future. Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.
Supported by
Community Partner
Paulina Alexis, Tantoo Cardinal, Art Napoleon
Canada
2024
In English and Dene with English subtitles
Graphic violence, animal cruelty, may frighten young children
Open to youth!
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Amanda Strong, Haydn Wazelle, Robert McLaughlin, Lupe Danyluk
Producer
Amanda Strong, Maral Mohammadian, Nina Werewka
Screenwriter
Amanda Strong, Richard Van Camp, Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Cinematography
Dean Holmes
Editor
Amanda Strong, Michael Bourquin
ANIM
Deanna Partridge-David, Anna Berezowsky, Juan Soto, Payton Curtis
Production Design
Kate Stransky
Amanda Strong
Amanda Strong is a Michif/Métis artist, writer, producer, director, filmmaker and mother. As the owner and executive producer of Spotted Fawn Productions Inc., her collaborative creations serve to amplify Indigenous storytelling and ideologies. Strong’s work has received Canadian Screen Award and Emmy nominations, and her films—which include Biidaaban (2018) and Four Faces of the Moon (2016) —have been shown worldwide at venues such as TIFF, the Cannes film market, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the American Museum of Natural History.
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