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How People Got Fire
Directed byDaniel Janke
Written byDaniel Janke
Produced bySvend-Erik Eriksen, Martin Rose
Narrated byLouise Profeit-Leblanc
CinematographyBrian Johnson
Music byDaniel Janke
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada

Release date

  • 2008 (2008)

Running time

16 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
French[1]

How People Got Fire is a short, poetic animated film from the Yukon.

Synopsis

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In a snowy village, a talented young girl listens to her grandmother's story of how Crow got fire for the people. A magical realist exploration of aboriginal American spirituality, oral story-telling, and a northern childhood.

About the film

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"This short film is based in part on the story told by the late Kitty Smith of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation."[2]

The film was shot in Carcross-Tagish, Yukon and rotoscoped,[3] with the addition of charcoal drawings by Christopher Auchter, and a contemporary classical sound track by Daniel Janke.[4]

The film was the 2009 World Indigenous Film Awards Winner for Best Animation, and received the 2009 American Indian Film Festival Award, Best Animated Short.[5][6] It received an award for Best Short Documentary at the 2009 Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, and the TEUEIKAN Second Prize at the 2009 First Peoples' Festival (Land InSights), Montréal.[7] The film was a finalist for the Writers Guild of Canada 2010 Screenwriting Award for Short Subjects.[8]

Festivals

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Graduate Scholarship Will Be Legacy of "How People Got Fire"" (Press release). National Film Board of Canada. May 8, 2006. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
  • ^ "How People Got Fire - DVD/Comment les humains ont obtenu le feu - DVD". National Film Board of Canada. May 8, 2006. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
  • ^ a b "How People Got Fire Premieres at ALFF". "What's Up Yukon, All Northern, All Fun". February 20, 2009. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
  • ^ "How People Got Fire excerpt". Daniel Janke. February 20, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2010.[dead link]
  • ^ a b c "Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences". British Film Institute. 2009. Archived from the original on September 14, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  • ^ a b "34th Annual American Indian Film Festival". American Indian Film Institute. 2009. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  • ^ "Film Collection, National Film Board of Canada, How People Got Fire". National Film Board of Canada. August 3, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  • ^ "The Finalists!". Running with my Eyes Closed, Life at the Intersection of Television and Digital. 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  • ^ "FFN – POLAR FOCUS 2". Tromso International Film Festival. 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  • ^ "How People Got Fire". Atlantic Film Festival. 2010. Archived from the original on October 31, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  • ^ "How People Got Fire". Sprockets 2010, Toronto International Film Festival for Children. February 20, 2010. Archived from the original on March 13, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
  • ^ "Competition short length films". ECOFILMS: Rhodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival. 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  • ^ "How People Got Fire". Animation Celebration!", Museum of the American Indian, New York, February 2010. February 20, 2010. Archived from the original on February 2, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
  • ^ "Shout Out Loud Youth Program-". ImagiNATIVE Film - Media Arts Festival. 2009. Archived from the original on December 14, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  • ^ "How People Got Fire". Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth. February 20, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2010. [dead link]
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