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Zoe L. Hopkins (2)

Zoe L. Hopkins

Zoe L. Hopkins

“My approach to storytelling is to speak from my heart,” says Zoe Hopkins. Born in Bella Bella, British Columbia, of mixed Heiltsuk and Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) ancestry, Hopkins got her start in cinema as a child actor in the 1991 feature drama Black Robe, and made her directorial debut at Sundance with the 2004 short Prayer for a Good Day. She’s gone on to direct both drama and documentary, and her first feature film, Kayak to Klemtu, based on Indigenous resistance to tanker traffic along the coast of Great Bear Rainforest, won the Air Canada Audience Choice Award at the 2017 edition of the imagineNATIVE Festival.

  • Button Blanket
    Button Blanket
    Zoe L. Hopkins  &  Dora Hopkins 2009 3 min
    This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the performance of a traditional dance with the art of the West Coast Heiltsuk Nation.

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  • La couverture à boutons
    La couverture à boutons
    Zoe L. Hopkins  &  Dora Hopkins 2009 3 min
    Ce court documentaire impressionniste se penche sur la création d’une couverture à boutons en intégrant l’exécution d’une danse traditionnelle à l’art du peuple heiltsuk de la Côte Ouest.

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