Sunday 1/29/12
Link to Film Festival webpage...
http://www.cinemaonthebayou.com
photo credit: www.cinemaonthebayou.com one of the many taking off in the canoes scenes...
Encounters
Link to the description of the film...
http://www.cinemaonthebayou.com/onefilm.cfm?film_id=193
photo credit: from the film makers webpage www.mofilms.ca in French, the orig cover...
and in French Encounters = Rencontre
Encounters (Louisiana Premiere)
Melanie Carriere and Olivier Higgins2011 52 min. Color
This documentary film tells the story of a group of young Innus, Huron and non-Aboriginal Quebeckers, who together travel an ancestral land and water path, 310 km long, which joins Lac Saint-Jean and Quebec City. Along the way, they learn about themselves and each other. This is another wonderful film from the award-winning filmmaking team of Melanie Carriere and Olivier Higgins, based in Quebec, for whom questions of identity, social fabric, land protection, and social justice inspire their projects.
French with English subtitles.
Click for filmmaker's web site (MoFilms)
photo credit: Lise Breton 2010 took this & put it on InfoCulture.Biz from the couples/the film makers Asiemut film project at the time...
(they look so happy & so young, to be film makers - or to be a couple that rode bikes from Mongolia to India & still looking this good?!)
photo credit: again from their Asiemut film, biking from Mongolia to India...uh, if I could read French I may be able to tell you who took the photo-could be they set up their own camera...but never the less, it was on this webpage...
(note: so they went from a huge bike riding adventure in Asiemut to the journey with the native teenagers in Encounters, again on bikes & hiking & canoeing as well--with their camera?! do I detect a theme, besides full on nature--does there have to be hardship...)
Link to their film webpage - Mo films...
"
films is a production company based in Quebec city, who wants to linger in the debates and social issues of our times. Questions of identity, social fabric, land protection and social justice are all subjects that inspire our projects..."
films is a production company based in Quebec city, who wants to linger in the debates and social issues of our times. Questions of identity, social fabric, land protection and social justice are all subjects that inspire our projects..."From my evening of viewing, finally almost the whole entire film too...
~lots of nature, Canadian nature, beautiful (I have never been to Canada & I have a passport...)
~lots of teenagers, but native ones trying to understand their culture & how it relates to 'others' - no matter which 'others' & just trying to make it from the beginning to the end of this specific journey & it does look like it was a journey through the wilderness (camping & riding & hiking--often in the rain, I would of been done with it all very quickly...)
~lots of sitting around the campfire at the end of the day to ask How was your day? which surprised me, they showed up & they said something, they shared & they also shared with the camera--because after awhile I'm guessing it faded into the background of the film makers holding it, this couple that went along on the adventure with them...
~lots of healing going on, though I haven't a clue about native peoples in Canada--one can imagine...
At the end (this is not a spoiler) you saw that the kids were going to stay in touch, as the one girl brought a group of the others to her village--I can't even say which native tribe of Canada she is, it doesn't matter really in the end...she was the one though that had never finished anything up until that journey...
It was a kind of Wisdom Quest I think for her & many of these teenagers...they shared a long hard endurance adventure together in the wilderness - at one point a Shaman came to speak with them too, which would of been awesome if you were or weren't a native person (or I'd of called him that, I may be wrong, he could of just been an Elder of a tribe--I wasn't there & I can't rewind the movie now either) & I would hope they're still staying in touch today & that other kids like them continue to go on this Nature Adventure in Canada, along a river that their ancestors probably used as well (also possibly without a camera crew following along with them the whole time...)
It was great too at one point in the film, they got lost--plain & simple...
Going up a mountain trail in the woods, so there's that decision--do we go back, do we go ahead...
Wondering if you'll find 'the' trail that you need, again I would of been so done/Done even before then--being rained on for days, wet clothes, wet shoes, it would of been a drowning, bogged down feeling all over (but these kids/teenagers came thru the other end of that, so it was great to watch that too...)
How far is 300 km? About 186 miles?!
Oh my I would of fallen down & never gotten up at like mile marker 10 or maybe 20--tops?!
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