Jury Award for Short Film, FIFA 2022
Thinking back to the only phone call she had with her maternal grandmother, director Danika St-Laurent tells us about the connection she maintains with both her Aboriginal identity and her grandmother through bead work.
Thinking back to the only phone call she had with her maternal grandmother, director Danika St-Laurent tells us about the connection she maintains with both her Aboriginal identity and her grandmother through bead work.
Also presented:
40th International Festival of Films on Art, Canada (2022)
40th International Festival of Films on Art, Canada (2022)
| Director | Danika St-Laurent |
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Image tirée du film We Are Not Speaking The Same Language // Image from the film We Are Not Speaking The Same Language
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Danika St-Laurent
Danika St-Laurent is an Ojibwe-Cree (Saulteaux) from Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan and was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, on December 27th, 1995. She was raised and currently lives in Montreal, Quebec. In January 2020, Danika started beading again and began her small beaded earrings business called Neebageesis Beadwork. She is presently working at Wapikoni Mobile as the Digital Activities Outreach Coordinator and created her first film with the Virtual Studio during the second cohort of the 2021 – 2022 season named We Are Not Speaking the Same Language.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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