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Jeff Barnaby
A Mi’kmaq director who grew up on the Listuguj Reserve in Quebec, Jeff Barnaby earned widespread acclaim for his stylish feature debut, Rhymes for Young Ghouls. The Globe & Mail hailed the supernatural youth-oriented tale as “a milestone: a savvy native-Canadian genre film with a strong, beautiful and ingenious heroine whose courage helps right an injustice a lot more real than whatever Katniss is fighting for in The Hunger Games.” Barnaby’s many short-film credits include the hard-hitting Etlinisigu’niet (Bleed Down), one of four shorts in the NFB’s Souvenir series, in which Indigenous artists reframe moving images from the NFB archives.
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Etlinisigu'niet (Bleed Down)Jeff Barnaby 2015 5 minIn five short minutes, this short film destroys any remaining shreds of the myth of a fair and just Canada. Children forced from their homes and sent to residential schools, families examined like livestock in crowded tuberculosis clinics, tainted water and land, poisoned for industry and profit at the cost of Indigenous lives, and the list goes on. But filmmaker Jeff Barnaby's message is clear: We are still here. Featuring the music of Tanya Tagaq. This film is part of Souvenir, a series of four films addressing Indigenous identity and representation by reworking material in the NFB's archives.
