The show contains elements of magical realism and also draws from Haisla folklore. Can you tell us about that?
I think the specificity of the storytelling is really important. Eden [Robinson] is Haisla-Heiltsuk and Jared is as well. In the Haisla tradition, the trickster stories are usually articulated in the form of a raven. We believe that our stories are in the land. We didn’t write down things in books, our culture is an oral storytelling culture and the land itself holds the stories. Our past is in our stories but so is our future. It’s not a separate thing.
You mentioned during a recent virtual panel that since there were people from different Indigenous Nations working on this project, you relied on a document from the Indigenous Screen Office that offers recommendations on how to work across Indigenous communities. Can you tell us more about that?was created by the Indigenous Screen Office with the help of ImagineNative and a few other partners, I believe.
In the documentary, we show filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril getting facial tattoos, and I think she really hit the nail on the head when she said there’s intergenerational trauma around reclaiming these cultural practices.
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