Podcast appearances and mentions of marie clements

In this episode we welcome Corey Payette, director of the movie musical Les Filles du Roi, in conversation with the film's editor Christian Díaz Durán.Adapted from Urban Ink's stage production, this locally-shot film screened at VIFF 2023. Les Filles du Roi tells through song the powerful story of the young Kanien'kehá:ka girl Kateri and her brother Jean-Baptiste, whose lives are disrupted upon the arrival of the “Daughters of the King” in ‘New France' (now Montreal) in 1665.Corey Payette is an interdisciplinary storyteller, writer, composer, producer, and director in film and theatre. Since 2014, he has been the Artistic Director of Urban Ink, a position first held by Marie Clements, at one of Canada's most ambitious theatre companies. Payette wrote the music, lyrics, and directed the acclaimed musicals Children of God, Les Filles du Roi, and Starwalker, among others. He is a member of the Mattagami First Nations, with French-Canadian and Irish ancestries. Les Filles du Roi is his first feature film.This conversation was recorded at VIFF Centre in March 2024.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––This podcast is brought to you by the Vancouver International Film Festival.Presented on the traditional and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. The Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society is a not-for-profit cultural organization that operates the internationally acclaimed Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), and year-round programming at VIFF Centre. See what's playing now at viff.org.

The new CBC miniseries “Bones of Crows” tells the multi-generational story of one family's experience with Canada's residential school system and their quest for justice. Tom speaks with writer, producer and director Marie Clements about adapting the series from the 2022 film of the same name, how nearly everyone on the cast and crew has a relative that went to residential school, and why telling this story feels like “sacred work.”

Marie Clements grabs your attention with the opening scenes of her new series version of Bones of Crows (premiering September 20 on CBC, CBC Gem and APTN). A pyramid of caribou skulls are stacked high as crows circle overhead. It is a not so subtle symbol of the decades of horror, abuse and genocide that took place in Canada in the wake of the residential school system.Clements has taken her festival film feature of Bones of Crows and expanded it with this five episode miniseries version. The writer, director and producer has cast well with this epic story that spans a hundred years, with Grace Dove one of three actresses who plays Cree matriarch Aline Spears, the main protagonist confronting her traumatic past.Clements, a Metis filmmaker based in B.C., has been a storyteller in many genres, including stage, screen and television. In this conversation, we talk about the depiction of pioneering Canadian politicians in Bones of Crows, and whether the current, statue-toppling revisions go far enough when it comes to setting the record straight about the plight of the First Nations. We also talk about her filmmaking influences growing up and land upon her favourite all-time TV theme song, from a series that took its own hard look at history.

Every month, we pick a play to discuss, and for this week's episode, we read "Burning Vision" by  Marie Clements. We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. SPOILER ALERT: There are going to be some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! Glistens: Sam: River documentary Cho: in-person open mic ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Instagram @beckettsbabies! And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Niall McNeil is an accomplished artist, a lifelong performer and a person with Down syndrome. Marie Clements is a renowned Canadian writer, director and producer. Niall and Marie collaborated on the new NFB documentary Lay Down Your Heart. The film is about Niall McNeil and his family and friends. Lay Down Your Heart airs at the inaugural Down Syndrome Film Festival on March 18 in Burnaby, BC. We spoke with Niall and Marie in early March.

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   Today Talking Taiwan hits a major milestone with episode 200! We think it's especially meaningful that the topic of this interview is TAIWANfest, an annual Taiwanese Canadian event that dates back to 1990.   Nowadays, TAIWANfest is held annually in Toronto and Vancouver. And my guest on this episode is Charlie Wu, the Managing Director of Asian-Canadian Special Events Association , which organizes TAIWANfest and LunarFest. You may recall that we had Charlie on earlier this year (in episode 167) to talk about LunarFest. TAIWANfest will be held in Toronto later this month from August 26-28 and in Vancouver from September 3-5. This year's theme is: The Stories of Independence Indulge in Indonesia, Discover Malaysia.   The programming will feature the indigenous band, Kanatal, which is a sort of experiment, that breaks the mold. They are a newly formed band of 4 experienced musicians, that have performing on tour without even having an album released. Other programs at TAIWANfest include a standup comedian, film screenings discussions, and events both in-person and virtual with topics covering: literature, social activism, food and culture.   This episode of Talking Taiwan has been sponsored by NATWA, the North America Taiwanese Women's Association.   NATWA was founded in 1988, and its mission is:   to evoke a sense of self-esteem and enhance women's dignity, to oppose gender discrimination and promote gender equality, to fully develop women's potential and encourage their participation in public affairs, to contribute to the advancement of human rights and democratic development in Taiwan, to reach out and work with women's organizations worldwide to promote peace for all.   To learn more about NATWA visit their website: www.natwa.com   Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:   TAIWANfest will be taking place in Toronto from August 26-28 and in Vancouver from September 3-5 The theme of TAIWANfest 2022: The Stories of Independence Indulge in Indonesia, Discover Malaysia The independence of nations vs. people The newly formed band, Kanatal [ga-na-dal], which means “island” in the Amis language, referring to the small island of Taiwan How Kanatal is touring and will perform at TAIWANfest The opening concert for TAIWANfest Toronto will be performed by an orchestra led by Maestro Ken Hsieh TAIWANfest Vancouver's closing concert will be performed by a string orchestra Comedian Ed Hill who will be performing at TAIWANfest Toronto and Vancouver TAIWANfest's virtual programming The Let Taiwan Be Taiwan program Connections between Indonesia and Taiwan There are 300,000 Indonesians living in Taiwan Indonesian migrant workers and their cultural impact on Taiwan Films, performances and food presented at TAIWANfest The “Taiwan Bookstore” concept at TAIWANfest Vancouver The food known in Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines, as “lumpia”; “run-bing” in Mandarin Chinese;  and “popiah” in Malaysia The discussion on “Making Taiwan Relevant in Cansda” about the book Charlie wrote with two others about his experiences running TAIWANfest How Indonesian culture will be represented at TAIWANfest How TAIWANfest Vancouveris working with the Brilliant Time Bookstore in Taiwan to collect donated books in Southeast Asian languages for migrant workers in Taiwan The graphic image that represents TAIWANfest 2022 was inspired by batik culture from Malaysia and Indonesia How Charlie and his team decides and curates the content of TAIWANfest Some of the films that will be part of Cinematic Taiwan, such as The Road Forward, a musical documentary by Marie Clements, which will be subtitled in Chinese Kanatal's song Peace The documentary being made about Kanatal The story of how Kanatal was formed Suana·Emuy·Cilangasay, who assembled the musicians to form Kanatal Eden Liu's social activism in Indonesia Due to capacity limitations at the Harbourfront Center in Toronto and the pandemic, TAIWANfest in Toronto will be scaled down while TAIWANfest in Vancouver will be at full scale Future plans for the Jade Music Festival   Related Links: To view all related links for this article, click link below: https://talkingtaiwan.com/charlie-wu-talks-about-the-annual-event-taiwanfest-ep-200/  

Performance scholar and Associate Professor in the Dramatic Arts department at the University of Alberta Selena Couture joins Am Johal to talk about her latest book, Against the Current and Into the Light. Selena speaks about how her book explores varying historical and contemporary performances involving Stanley Park through language, relationships to land, and the unlearning of settler knowledges. She draws from colonial and counter-colonial performances such as the 1946 Jubilee show, and the public performances of Native Brotherhood of BC in the same year. Selena also explores how her doctoral dissertation and the taking of hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language classes influenced the creation of her book, and speaks about the instability of archive-based “truths,” by discussing the fabricated history of Lord Stanley's dedication of Stanley Park to “people of all colours, creeds and customs.” Selena and Am end their conversation by speaking of the absence of Indigenous women from historical archives, and the resonating performances of contemporary Indigenous women artists such as Quelemia Sparrow and Marie Clements. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/149-selena-couture.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/149-selena-couture.html Resources: — Against the Current and Into the Light: https://www.mqup.ca/against-the-current-and-into-the-light-products-9780773559219.php — UBC's First Nations and Endangered Languages Program: https://fnel.arts.ubc.ca/ — Inventing Stanley Park by Sean Kheraj: https://www.ubcpress.ca/inventing-stanley-park — The Archive and the Repertoire by Diana Taylor: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-archive-and-the-repertoire — The Native Brotherhood of British Columbia: https://www.nativebrotherhood.ca/ — Ashes on the Water: A Podplay Video: https://vimeo.com/27876873 — The Road Forward by Marie Clements: https://www.nfb.ca/film/road_forward/ — Urban Ink: https://urbanink.ca/

Haui      "Haui's voice is layered: as male, as queer, as mixed-race, as black, as curious. His scope is vast: as director, as actor, as visual artist, as interpreter....His questions are endless. We need his art, his artistry and his voice." Kimberley Rampersad, Associate Artistic Director of Shaw Festival HAUI is a mixed media artist & activist who eschews categorization. His work explores themes of race, gender and orientation while blurring the lines between theatrical and cinematic mediums. He has worked in a number of roles from directing, video/projection design, visual arts and performance for some of Canada's leading arts organizations including CBC, Canadian Opera Company, National Arts Centre, Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival. He recently released his feature-length film debut entitled Mixed↑ produced with Jack Fox and in association with OUTtv. Career highlights include: Assistant producer and stills photographer for Métis/Dene filmmaker Marie Clements' feature film Red Snow available now on CBC Gem; directing his award winning short film C'est Moi which has screened at some of the leading African diaspora film festivals worldwide. Upcoming he is writing his first full-length operatic work Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canadian Opera Company; designing at the prestigious Luminato Festival in 2021; teaching and acting in theatre and film all while developing a new television series. He is currently an artist-in-residence with Wildseed Black Arts Fellowship (Black Lives Matter Toronto) bridging arts and activism. For more information head to haui.ca “Haui Davis – Howard, or “Haui”, as he positions himself, is a highly intelligent, witty and talented young man with a huge repertoire of skills...this is an exceptionally professional young man who will make his name, and soon, with a vengeance. His talents are wide-ranging– and unique.” Martha Henry; Order of Canada, Order of ON; Hon LLD, PhD, DHum, DFA.  ***Head on over to Creatrix Compass and explore our many offerings from free inspiration to get your creative juices flowing to creativity classes to creativity coaching and life coaching for creatives.  It can all be found at: https://www.creatrixcompass.com Your donation helps us continue to spread creativity throughout the land.  Thank you! https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=2PM3V82XDS7GA  Music: Good Friends Inc by Jonathan Boyle 

There's no way to summarize this appropriately. In Episode 8,  we'll be addressing Indigenous relations with the Canadian state from a variety of perspectives, grounded in history, and based on my education. We'll talk about whiteness, the media, and the Canadian State as factors in the perception of how one may view this topic. Then, we'll go over the 21 things of the book '21 Things you Might Not Know About the Indian Act' by Bob Joseph, with comments on my interpretations of specific socioeconomic issues and political tensions related to the points raised. We'll touch on two methods of governance reform avenues available for Indigenous communities that work with the Canadian Federal State, what that means,  and finally, address how one is possibly expected to face the reality of where the future can go. Which is- spoiler alert- anywhere.  Is this a heavy topic? Yes. This is not light. Is it filled with heavy language? Yes. But did I do my best to explain it clearly, which is why it took an hour and 7 minutes? also yes. People who are alive today lived through the application of this legislation. I have sat across from John Elliot, in the pouring rain on ancestral land, which is now public parkland. I have heard history directly from the source that has been so desperately attempted to be buried. Please listen to this, and if you feel so inspired, go and hear from them directly too. This conversation with people who look like me is so necessary and so overdue.  HISKWE to Marcia Turner,  John Elliot, and Nick Claxton specifically for educating me and giving me the foundation to even begin to discuss this topic. And, thank you to Marie Clements for being my window into this community. She is such a creative and wonderful woman and has inspired so much curiosity for me. * I misspoke when I said over 14,000 Indigenous children have been found to date at residential schools. Over 14,000 is the total estimation based on current trends from 'schools' that have been searched. 1,802 children have been recovered as of Sept. 16th, 2021 from 8 of the 139 total 'schools'. 

Tim welcomes writer and film maker Marie Clements to talk about their work together on the opera Missing, which tells the story of the Highway of Tears and shines a light on the national crisis of missing indigenous women in Canada. They also talk about being Métis and the difference between Canada and the US when it comes to indigenous peoples, the Super Friends, and role models.Marie also shares her latest project Red Snow. You can find out more about Marie Clements through her Website at www.mcm2.ca And her film Red Snow at www.redsnow.ca Information on Marie's Opera Missing is also available at https://pacificopera.ca/whats-on/missing/ and http://cityoperavancouver.com/missing/background-information You can find Tim's Website here: http://timothylongmusic.com/ Special Thanks to Martha Redbone for her permission to use her song "Medicine Man" for the opening credits. More of her work can be found at https://martharedbone.com and you can subscribe to her Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MarthaRedbone More information on Foundry Arts, the producer of Unequal Temperament is available at www.thefoundryarts.com Foundry Arts is a lab for opera using collaboration and partnership to invest in artist development, dialogue, and expression, to sustain a rich, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable cultural landscape.

Tim welcomes writer and film maker Marie Clements to talk about their work together on the opera Missing, which tells the story of the Highway of Tears and shines a light on the national crisis of missing indigenous women in Canada. They also talk about being Métis and the difference between Canada and the US when it comes to indigenous peoples, the Super Friends, and role models.Marie also shares her latest project Red Snow. You can find out more about Marie Clements through her Website at www.mcm2.ca And her film Red Snow at www.redsnow.ca Information on Marie's Opera Missing is also available at https://pacificopera.ca/whats-on/missing/ and http://cityoperavancouver.com/missing/background-information You can find Tim's Website here: http://timothylongmusic.com/ Special Thanks to Martha Redbone for her permission to use her song "Medicine Man" for the opening credits. More of her work can be found at https://martharedbone.com and you can subscribe to her Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MarthaRedbone More information on Foundry Arts, the producer of Unequal Temperament is available at www.thefoundryarts.com Foundry Arts is a lab for opera using collaboration and partnership to invest in artist development, dialogue, and expression, to sustain a rich, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable cultural landscape.

Show notes below: Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Productionwww.taracheyenne.comInstagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne PerformancePodcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Musicwww.marcstewartmusic.com  © 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts/iTunes and Spotify. Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386 Show Notes: Tasha Faye Evans is a Coast Salish dance and theatre artist with grandparents also from Wales as well as European Jewish descent. Her career continues to be a collection of collaborations and performances with national and international Indigenous artists, including Starr Muranko’s "Spine of the Mother", Raven Spirit Dance’s  "Salmon Girl and Confluence", Marie Clements’ "The Unnatural and Accidental Women", and Thomson Highway’s "The Rez Sisters".  She is currently creating a new dance solo in collaboration with carver Ocean Hyland called, "Cedar Woman". Tasha has also been focusing on redress and Coast Salish cultural resurgence, particularly in Port Moody, BC where she is raising her two children. Over the past four years, she has been engaging Port Moody and the public at large in arts-based community development projects offering Coast Salish cultural events and education led by local First Nations artists and Knowledge Keepers. She is responsible for two Coast Salish house posts designed, carved and raised in ceremony and is in the process of coordinating Port Moody’s third National Indigenous Peoples Day event.  She has produced three festivals, including the "Welcome Post Project", "Stawk: Water is Life", and "Xapayay: Tree is Life" online festival and art show. This past year,Tasha collaborated with Kwikwetlem  and Tsleil Waututh Nation to create the first two of five posts she hopes to raise along Port Moody’s iconic 2.5 km Shoreline Trail. These posts will create a path of healing along the water and reignite the stories and songs of the Coast Salish Nations who have been caring for this land long before it was known as Port Moody.  Links: A Message from Tasha Faye Evans, Curator:Xapayay: Tree of Life 2020 - noonscreek.org noonscreek.org Tasha will be an Artist-in-Residence at The Dance Centre this coming season:https://thedancecentre.ca/residencies-projects/artist-in-residence/ Raven Spirit Dance: https://ravenspiritdance.com/ Bard On The Beach:https://bardonthebeach.org/whats-on/bard-beyond-the-beach/  About Tara:Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight).Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Marie Clements and Mozhdah Jamalzadah and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Red Snow, ways of seeing, things we have in common, 10,000 words for snow and how racism happens everywhere.Trailer hereMore about the film here.And watch the film on Google Play, Youtube or iTunes.Synopsis:Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, is caught in an ambush in Kandahar, Afghanistan. His capture and interrogation by a Taliban Commander releases a cache of memories connected to the love and death of his Inuit cousin, Asana, and binds him closer to a Pashtun family as they escape across treacherous landscapes and through a blizzard that becomes their key to survival.The Far North meets the Middle East in a journey of loss and rebirth that lays bare the land, blood ties, and two ancient cultures that collide to re-imagine a future born of 10,000 words for snow.About Mozhdah and Marie:Marie Clements has ignited her brand of artistry within a variety of mediums including film, TV, radio, and live performance. Her latest project, the feature drama Red Snow has won Most Popular Canadian Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Best Canadian Feature Film at the Edmonton International Film Festival; earned nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film, and won the Best Director of a Feature at the 2019 American Indian Film Festival (AIFF) in San Francisco and Best Achievement in Film from the L.A. Skins Festival in Los Angeles.Red Snow has recently been nominated for 10 Leo Awards and her feature music documentary, The Road Forward, produced by the NFB premiered at Hot Docs, opened the 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, closed the 2018 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, receiving five Leo Awards including Best Production, Best Director, and Best Screenwriter. The Road Forward has screened at over 300 venues in North America also receiving a Best Director Award at the AIFF, as well as, a Writer’s Guild Nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay in 2018,. A 2019 Telefilm Canada Birks Diamond Tribute to Women In Film recipient, Marie was also nominated for a DGC Best Director Award for her work on Red Snow. She received the WFF Women on Top Award and WIFTTV Spotlight Impact Award 2018.Her documentary Looking at Edward Curtis premiered at DOXA and The Yorkton Film Festival with four nominations for Best Documentary and premiered on Knowledge Network last summer 2018. Her multi-award-winning films have screened at Cannes, TIFF, MOMA, VIFF, Whistler Film Festival, American Indian Film Festival and ImagineNATIVE Film Festival.Her play The Unnatural and Accidental Women opened the first national Indigenous theatre at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa this fall, and her opera Missing toured nationally both to critical acclaim. Marie’s fifteen plays have been presented on some of the most prestigious stages for Canadian and international work garnering numerous awards and publications including the 2004 Canada- Japan Literary Award, and two prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award nominations.MCM is an independent media production company owned and operated by Clements specializing in the development, creation and production of innovative works of media that explore an Indigenous and intercultural reality.Mozhdah Jamazadah is the first Afghan woman to brave death threats in order to host her own talk show and cover sensitive subjects impacting Afghan women and children.She plays Khartira the educated daughter of Dylan’s Afghan translator Aman. Mozhdah never calls herself the Oprah of Afghanistan. That’s just the name her adoring fans—which includes individuals like Barack and Michelle Obama as well as Ms. Winfrey herself—have given her. That’s because, like Oprah, this Kabul-born, Vancouver-based icon has sparked conversations and inspired women all over the world as a bold, big-hearted example of female leadership.Through her internationally renowned music career and ground-breaking television show The Mozhdah Show, Mozhdah has inspired profound respect and serious controversy in equal measure. She’s the first Afghan artist to produce hit records in English, capturing a global audience and performing on international stages. She’s the first Afghan woman to brave death threats in order to host her own talk show and cover sensitive subjects impacting Afghan women and children.She’s also the first Afghan to perform in the White House, to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show, or to express her mission of empowerment on CNN, Time, and other major news outlets. Mozhdah appeared on ET Canada as a guest co-host and was a panelist on CBC’s Canada Reads 2018 with Jeanne Becker and other prominent Canadian celebrities. Having just recently stepped into the acting industry, she has already booked a number of TV shows and commercials. In this her first leading role in a feature film, Mozhdah plays Khatira the spirited daughter of translator Aman.Image Copyright and Credit: Marie Clements and Principia Productions.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jessica Matten is of Red River Metis-Cree descent and is directly a descendant of Cuthbert Grant, the first rebel Metis leader famously known for the Battle of the Seven Oaks in Canada.Jessica recently is the star of the new Crime Drama "Tribal" on APTN Network. Jessica stars in Season 3 of Discovery Canada & Netflix's TV show "Frontier" starring Jason Momoa. She also can be seen in the new CW Network and CBC drama alongside Kristin Kruek in "Burden of Truth". Jessica also can be seen in the upcoming comic adaptation movie "The Empty Man" for 20th Century Fox studios which filmed in Cape Town, South Africa.Jessica can be seen on 3 Canadian Screen Award nominated and winning shows: Frontier, Blackstone and Mohawk Girls. Jessica has developed a small cult following in North America for her performance in the starring role of Elle-Maija Tailfeather's short film, "A Red Girl's Reasoning". The film premiered at various festivals in Canada and the United States, taking home awards for "Best Canadian Action Short" at the prestigious ImagineNATIVE Film festival, winner at the Crazy 8s Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, LA Skins Film Fest in Los Angeles, and nominated at the American Indian Film Institute in San Francisco 2012.Other TV and films include the Gemini award winning show "Blackstone" and "Pilgrims" written and directed by Marie Clements that Jessica starred in, was an official selection for the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival 2013.Besides acting, Jessica runs an Aboriginal wellness and fitness company with her family called Lemon Cree where they have helped thousands of Aboriginal people achieve their fitness, wellness and health goals. She also runs the viral campaign #N8Vgirls to help spread awareness globally on the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women in Canada. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

First, we get to know writer and director MARIE CLEMENTS and her new film documenting First Nations activism as it connects with music history in "The Road Forward." Then, we take to the sky with President & CEO of Drone Delivery Canada, MICHAEL ZAHRA, who's providing Covid-19 relief for the Beausoleil First Nation.

Marie has been changing the world with her stories for decades and this week her new film Red Snow is being released! We loved listening to her interview and chatting about the incredible viewpoints she offers the world. Join us! Catch up with Naomi @snieckus Emily @emchurchill AJ @atotheje and Camille Adams @camilleadamsfilm on the newest Firecracker Aftershow now!

Our guest this week is writer/director Marie Clements! Marie's first dramatic feature RED SNOW comes out digitally THIS FRIDAY! That’s right, Friday May 15th you can find RED SNOW on Apple TV. I had a chance to watch the film … which, by the way, is shot in FOUR languages! Truly incredible. Follow her on Instagram @marie.clements  Red Snow I Trailer https://vimeo.com/313876027 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redsnowthefilm/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redsnowfilm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/redsnowfilm  Website: https://www.redsnow.ca 

Marie Clements is one of the most visionary and astonishing storytellers working in Vancouver today. Whether it's with documentaries like The Road Forward (which used musical numbers and moving interviews to tell the story of the Native Voice newspaper), or her libretto for Missing, the chamber opera that amplified the stories of murdered and missing Indigenous women, Marie's aim is to imprint stories on her audiences. Marie's latest is Red Snow – and on the surface, it's tonally and thematically different from her previous work. It's a moving and at times violent drama about a Gwich'in soldier serving in the Canadian Army who is captured by the Taliban. Red Snow is about love, and children, and faith, and the different faces of colonialism. It's about survival, and language, and snow. It's heart pounding. It's glorious. It's astonishing. In short, Red Snow is textbook Marie Clements. On the eve of Red Snow's theatrical release, Marie Clements joins Sabrina Furminger in the YVR Screen Scene studio to talk about her film, and what she'd like audiences to think about while the end credits roll. Episode sponsor: Fish Flight Entertainment

For our fifth anniversary, we’re in London with writer-director-producer Marie Clements (The Road Forward, Looking at Edward Curtis), whose new film Red Snow opens in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa this Friday, March 13th. And she’s there to stand up for Paul Haggis’ Crash, the 2004 ensemble drama about race and class in America that became the … Continue reading Marie Clements on Crash 2004 →

Emelie Peacock speaks with Marie Clements about Red Snow, her movie combining Gwich'in, Inuvialuktun, and Pashto, and interviews Jeremy Emerson about his 2014 wildfire season documentary Summer of Smoke. Plus Ollie Williams celebrates Ecole Allain St-Cyr's first sports tournament in 30 years.

Marie Clements is an award-winning Métis performer, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer and founding Artistic Director of urban ink Productions. Her ten plays including Burning Vision, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, and Urban Tattoo have been presented on some of the most prestigious stages for Canadian and international work including the Festival de Theatre des Ameriques (Urban Tattoo 2001, Burning Vision 2003) in Montreal, and The Magnetic North Festival (Burning Vision 2003) in Ottawa, and have garnered awards including 2004 Canada-Japan Award, short listed for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award, Jessie Richardson Awards and a Jack Webster Journalism nomination. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television. Her latest writing projects include her film Unnatural and Accidental invited to premiere at over fifteen film festivals including The MoMa Festival in New York, Toronto Film Festival, The Vancouver Film Festival and The American Indian Film Festival 2006. Currently Unnatural and Accidental has received ten nominations for the prestigious Leo Awards including Best Screenplay. As a producer and director Marie has been involved in the development of over seventy productions of new work across forms and disciplines. Copper Thunderbird will be published by Talon Books Fall 2007. She is currently Playwright in Residence at the National Arts Centre.