Echo Chamber - 308 - Part Three (Wilfred Buck)
PEOPLE, NOW it is time for 'Part THREE' of this week's @EchoChamberFP and it's out of this world!!!
We have an incredible new hybrid documentary, thanks to Door Number 3 Productions, National Film Board of Canada, Clique Pictures & AR:PR that explores the fascinating life of a Cree elder! THEN, although she was out at the CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival @cphdox for the 'World Premiere' and other screenings of the Doc, the visionary behind this piece of work was kind enough to spare some time to talk on such topics as cultural repression, Indigenous lore, labelling, and the way we learn!!! This REALLY is one not to miss, I hope you enjoy it, as much as I did!!!
'Wilfred Buck' is written & directed by Lisa Jackson. Inspired by the book 'I Have Lived Four Lives'. An elder member (Wilfred Buck) of the indigenous Cree people of Canada is our spiritual guide in a film that, like its charismatic protagonist, moves between past and present, and between Earth and the stars, to overcome the ghosts of colonisation.
Watch the conversation: HERE!
In 'Part Three' we have:
Wilfred Buck - Poster
Wilfred Buck
Watch Review: Here.
CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, World Premiere: 18th March 2024
Director: Lisa Jackson
Cast: Brandon Alexis, Raymond Chartrand, Ed Azure, Ethan Neckoway, Caine Robinson, Moe McGillivary
Credit: Door Number 3 Productions, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 97 min
Cert: 15
Website: Here.
Watch the conversation: HERE!
Lisa Jackson
Lisa Jackson
Writer, Director, Producer, Visual Artist
With a background in documentary, Lisa Jackson expanded into fiction with SAVAGE, which won a Genie award for Best Short Film. She's known for her cross-genre projects including VR, animation, performance art film and a musical. Playback Magazine named her one of 10 to Watch and her work has played at festivals internationally, including Berlinale, Hot Docs, SXSW, Tribeca, and London BFI, as well as airing on many networks. Her short film LICHEN, created in IMAX, screened at Sundance in 2020.
Her NFB VR work BIIDAABAN: FIRST LIGHT premiered at Tribeca, has exhibited to 25,000+ people around the world, won a Canadian Screen Award, was nominated for a Webby, and has garnered high praise from press and the public. TRANSMISSIONS, a 6000 square foot multimedia installation on the power of language, premiered in September 2019 at SFU's Milton Wong Theatre in Vancouver, was a cover story of The Georgia Straight and will continue touring. UNEARTHED, a film component from the installation, was featured at the Art Gallery of Ontario for Nuit Blanche. In 2017 she co-directed and co-produced the CBC one-hour doc INDICTMENT: THE CRIMES OF SHELLY CHARTIER which won Best Doc at imagineNATIVE and is one of the top-watched CBC docs online.
With her new company Door Number 3 Productions, she's developing documentary and fiction film and TV projects, both her own and others'. These include OJIIBIKAAN (with Clique Pictures and directors Sean Stiller and Rémy Huberdeau), an Indigenous food sovereignty feature doc which won the Corus Best Canadian Pitch award at Hot Docs 2020 and received Hot Docs Cross Currents funding, as well as WILFRED BUCK, a hybrid feature doc about star knowledge centred on a Cree elder.
She was Director of the Gladue Video Project with Osgoode Hall Law School, programming consultant for Hotdocs, sits on the NFB's Indigenous Advisory Committee, and has been the Director Mentor for the National Screen Institute's IndigiDocs Program. She's a popular public speaker and media commentator, and has been featured on CBC radio's The Current, The Globe and Mail, Now Magazine, The Georgia Straight and others. She is Anishinaabe from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, has a BFA from SFU, an MFA from York University (thesis prize), and is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre's Directors Lab, TIFF Talent Lab and TIFF Writers Studio, and IDFA Summer School.
Follow Lisa via:
IMDb: Here.
Linkedin: Here.
Website: Here.
X: @nahmabin
Facebook: Here.
Instagram: @flickerbird
Watch 'I Pity The Country': Here.
Door Number 3
Website: Here.
YouTube: Here.
*(Music)
'I'm Housin' (Instrumental) by EPMD - 2020