How People Got Fire

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

How People Got Fire
Directed byDaniel Janke
Produced bySvend-Erik Eriksen, Martin Rose
Written byDaniel Janke
Narrated byLouise Profeit-Leblanc
Music byDaniel Janke
CinematographyBrian Johnson
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 2008 (2008)
Running time
16 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
French[1]

Synopsis

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 Native spirituality, oral storytelling, and a northern childhood.

About the film

"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
  • "Tromsø International Film Festival, Frozen Land-Moving Pictures", Jan. 18-23, 2011[9]
  • "Atlantic Film Festival", Sept. 16-25, 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia[10]
  • "Sprockets: Toronto International Film Festival for Children", April 17–23, 2010[11]
  • "ECOFILMS: Rhodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival", 2010[12]
  • "Animation Celebration!", Museum of the American Indian, New York, February 2010[13]
  • "American Indian Film Festival", Nov. 6-14, 2009, San Francisco, CA[6]
  • "ImagiNATIVE Film - Media Arts Festival", Oct. 14-18, 2009, Toronto[14]
  • "Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth, Vancouver BC, 2009[15]
  • "The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival", 14–29 October 2009[5]
  • "Dreamspeakers Film Festival", June 18–21, 2009[5]
  • "Available Light Film Festival," Yukon Arts Center, 2009[3]
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See also

References
  1. "Graduate Scholarship Will Be Legacy of "How People Got Fire"" (Press release). National Film Board of Canada. 2006-05-08. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
  2. "How People Got Fire - DVD/Comment les humains ont obtenu le feu - DVD". National Film Board of Canada. 2006-05-08. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
  3. "How People Got Fire Premieres at ALFF". "What's Up Yukon, All Northern, All Fun". 2009-02-20. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
  4. "How People Got Fire excerpt". Daniel Janke. 2010-02-20. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
  5. "Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences". British Film Institute. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-09-14. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  6. "34th Annual American Indian Film Festival". American Indian Film Institute. 2009. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  7. "Film Collection, National Film Board of Canada, How People Got Fire". National Film Board of Canada. 2010-08-03. Retrieved 2011-07-24.
  8. "The Finalists!". Running with my Eyes Closed, Life at the Intersection of Television and Digital. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  9. "FFN – POLAR FOCUS 2". Tromso International Film Festival. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  10. "How People Got Fire". Atlantic Film Festival. 2010. Archived from the original on 2009-10-31. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  11. "How People Got Fire". Sprockets 2010, Toronto International Film Festival for Children. 2010-02-20. Archived from the original on 2010-03-13. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
  12. "Competition short length films". ECOFILMS: Rhodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  13. "How People Got Fire". Animation Celebration!", Museum of the American Indian, New York, February 2010. 2010-02-20. Archived from the original on 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
  14. "Shout Out Loud Youth Program-". ImagiNATIVE Film - Media Arts Festival. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-12-14. Retrieved 2010-06-26.
  15. "How People Got Fire". Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth. 2010-02-20. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
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