How People Got Fire

How People Got Fire
Directed byDaniel Janke
Written byDaniel Janke
Produced bySvend-Erik Eriksen, Martin Rose
Narrated byLouise Profeit-Leblanc
CinematographyBrian Johnson
Edited byAndrew Connors
Music byDaniel Janke
Animation byChristopher Auchter
Stuart Andrew Sharp
Jay White
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 2008 (2008)
Running time
16 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
French

How People Got Fire is a short animated film from the Yukon territory of Canada.

Synopsis

In a snowy village, a young girl listens to her grandmother's fable of how the crow brought fire to the people. The film explores aboriginal American spirituality, oral story-telling and childhood in climates in the extreem north.

Details

Production

This short film is based in part on the story told by the late Kitty Smith of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation. It was shot in Carcross-Tagish, Yukon and rotoscoped, with the addition of charcoal drawings by Christopher Auchter, and a contemporary classical sound track by Daniel Janke.

Reception

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. 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. The film was a finalist for the Writers Guild of Canada 2010 Screenwriting Award for Short Subjects.

Festivals

See also

References

  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.
  2. ↑ "How People Got Fire - DVD/Comment les humains ont obtenu le feu - DVD". National Film Board of Canada. May 8, 2006. Archived from the original on February 2, 2011. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
  3. 1 2 "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.
  4. ↑ "How People Got Fire excerpt". Daniel Janke. February 20, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2010.[dead link]
  5. 1 2 3 "Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences". British Film Institute. 2009. Archived from the original on September 14, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  6. 1 2 "34th Annual American Indian Film Festival". American Indian Film Institute. 2009. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Film Collection, National Film Board of Canada, How People Got Fire". National Film Board of Canada. August 3, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  8. ↑ "The Finalists!". Running with my Eyes Closed, Life at the Intersection of Television and Digital. 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  9. ↑ "FFN – POLAR FOCUS 2". Tromso International Film Festival. 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  10. ↑ "How People Got Fire". Atlantic Film Festival. 2010. Archived from the original on October 31, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  11. ↑ "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.
  12. ↑ "Competition short length films". ECOFILMS: Rhodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival. 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ "Shout Out Loud Youth Program-". ImagiNATIVE Film - Media Arts Festival. 2009. Archived from the original on December 14, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  15. ↑ "How People Got Fire". Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth. February 20, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2010. [dead link]