NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind)
Overview
Director Biography - Lindsay McIntyre
Lindsay McIntyre is an award-winning filmmaker of Inuit/mixed settler descent. Working largely in 16mm, her process-based analogue practice deals with themes of portraiture, place and personal histories. After more than 40 short experimental and documentary films, she is stepping up to narrative with her first feature 'The Words We Can’t Speak' (in development) which won the coveted Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award (worth $250K). She is also a skilled Cinematographer ('Ste. Anne' - Rhayne Vermette, 'LAKE' - Alex Lazarowich, 'Films Gouvernementaux' - Matthew Rankin), and has won awards for her work as Editor and Production Designer. She is a COUSIN Cycle II fellow and she has been honoured with the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation), the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Excellence in Media Arts (Canada Council for the Arts) and many festival laurels. Recent projects include the short drama 'NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ', an expanded cinema performance 'Worth More Standing' about old growth forests on unceded Pacheedaht territory, the animated documentary 'Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different)', 'Where We Stand', a short made on handmade silver gelatine emulsion about the state of analogue film in the digital age, and a monumental projectionmapping installation on the Vancouver Art Gallery about the legacy of residential schools, 'If These Walls'. She has been a member of several artist-run film labs including the Double Negative Collective, EMO Collective, Iris Collective, and an international consortium of emulsioneers. She participated in the Women in the Director’s Chair Story & Leadership program, Women in View’s Five in Focus: Indigenous, Whistler Screenwriter’s Lab, Banff Diversity of Voices, and WIFTV’s Tricksters & Writers. Her films and expanded cinema performance works have been seen around the world in places like Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives, Pleasure Dome, Mono No Aware, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Analogica, WNDX, imagineNATIVE, Images, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, VIFF, Raindance, One Flaming Arrow, and Black Maria, and can be found in several permanent collections. She has an MFA in Film Production (Concordia) and is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. https://www.instagram.com/tiny_moving_pictures/ https://vimeo.com/lindsaymcintyre |
Director Statement
My motive behind helping Darren Lee Campbell make this film was I that I wanted to help him tell his story in the most authentic way. This story truly speaks from the heart of Los Angeles as its on Romeo & Juliet version. My goal is the make people uncomfortable in a positive way by bringing awareness of racial tension between the black and brown community. I hope this film gets people talking and unite black and brown people.
My motive behind helping Darren Lee Campbell make this film was I that I wanted to help him tell his story in the most authentic way. This story truly speaks from the heart of Los Angeles as its on Romeo & Juliet version. My goal is the make people uncomfortable in a positive way by bringing awareness of racial tension between the black and brown community. I hope this film gets people talking and unite black and brown people.
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