Muffins For Granny
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"...and the restlessness of an ancient sadness."
Female
101 years old
Canada
Last Login: 9/11/2008
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| Influences | Drawing and painting, all Elders everywhere, my Granny, Theresa McCraw, family and friends, also any artist who feels the need to express the truth of their hearts. "Your truth is your beauty. Your story is your gift." | | Awards | 2007 - Spirit Magazine, "Ones to Watch", Leaders of 2006, Winter Issue2007 - One World Film Festival, Ottawa, Ontario 2006 - Winnipeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winner of Best DocumentaryImagineNATIVE International Film and Media-Arts Festival, Toronto, OntarioHonourable Mention for Best DocumentaryCBC Documentary Pitch Prize, “Northern Lights”ImagineNATIVE Film and Media-Arts Festival, Toronto, Ontario2005 - Project Grant, “Muffins For Granny” Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Ottawa, OntarioCultural Arts Award, “Muffins For Granny” National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Toronto, Ontario2004 - Aboriginal Arts Project Grant, “Muffins For Granny” Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Ontario2003 - Aboriginal Youth Role Model, Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre, Sioux Lookout, Ontario2001 - Al Goulais Award, 3rd Year Drawing and Painting, OCAD, Toronto, OntarioRobert Markle Scholarship Fund, Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, Ontario1999 - Jacques Deganais Colour Proficiency Award, Foundation Studies, OCAD, Toronto, Ontario’98 - 2001 - Scholarships awarded annually by the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation | | Festivals | 2006 – 2007 Official Selection to numerous film festivals including:
One World Film Festival, Ottawa, Ontario
Weeneebeg Film Festival, Moose Factory, Ontario
Indianer/Inuit Film Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Ontario
Winnipeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, Manitoba | | Professional Affiliations | Funding Sources:
Aboriginal Healing Foundation,
Ontario Arts Council,
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation |
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Muffins For Granny's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Occupation: | Artist and Filmmaker |
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Muffins For Granny's Companies
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Feather Productions
Toronto, Ontario CA
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Total Plays: 391 |
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About me:
Documentary, 88 minutes:
In the late 1880’s and for the following 100 years, the government of Canada imposed a policy of assimilation that required every First Nation’s child be placed in Residential Schools. Parents who refuted these laws were placed in jails and their children as young as 5 years old, left in the hands of strangers. These schools were run by the churches of the times and within those walls unspeakable abuses came down upon the children day in and day out. Unspeakable only until now…
“Muffins For Granny,” will take you deep into the Canadian Shield, North of the great Lake Superior on a journey to reawaken the ancient ghosts of the Anishnawbe (people of this land), who carry a sadness left unresolved for 100 years. As a little girl, Nadia McLaren witnessed many tears fall from her Granny’s (Theresa McCraw of the Heron Bay Pic River reservation) eyes. In 2004, she traveled home to speak with Elders and family members in search of a better understanding to her life-long confusions about her Granny’s pain. A sacred tobacco offering was given to each of the 35 Elders interviewed, and for many it was for the first time they spoke of the abuses they suffered within Residential Schools. “Muffins for Granny,” takes you through the personal stories of 7 Elders who have lived through one of the darkest chapters in Canada’s History. There are times when each has almost given up. True stories of rape, murder and suicide are told with only the hope that somehow it may begin the healing this country and its people so desperately need. We begin to see that truth can be a bitter medicine but once absorbed it begins to heal from within, no longer causing pain from the outside.
With this documentary Nadia McLaren invites you to fall in love with the spirit of her Ojibway Granny when we are shown the precious 8mm family footage. Held inside the breathtaking landscapes of Northern Ontario we begin to realize that love has told this story. With nothing left hidden we are welcomed home inside the stories of 7 First Nation's Elders who speak the familiar language of tears and of laughter, the ancient language of hearts.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Bob Dylan,
Daphne Odjig,
John Trudell,
Sofia Coppola....
Those are the specific ones for now - there are so many beautiful and interesting people in the world and I welcome the priviledge of meeting a perfect stranger anytime.
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