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    Empty

    • 2009
    • 00h 04m 43s
    • Jackie Traverse
    • Rent $200
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    Synopsis

    Set to music by Little Hawk, this animated and starkly honest story is a daughter's tribute to her estranged mother.

    Official Website

    • https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/films/empty

    Categories

    • Animation,
    • Autobiography,
    • Childhood,
    • Culture,
    • Documentary,
    • Families,
    • Feminism,
    • Gender,
    • History,
    • Identity,
    • Indigenous,
    • Portraits,
    • Racism,
    • Short,
    • Works by Women

    Original or Alternative Title

    • Empty

    Shooting Format

    • DSLR

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Music,
    • Voice-Over,
    • Colour,
    • Drawing,
    • Stereo

    Available Subtitle

    • French

    Region

    • Manitoba,
    • Central Canada,
    • Prairies

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • Digibeta,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Director: Jackie Traverse

    Provided By

    • Winnipeg Film Group logo

    Festivals

    • Gimme Some Truth Documentary Film Festival
    • Asinabka Film and Media Arts Festival
    • Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival
    • Biindigaate Indigenous Film Festival
    • ImagineNative Film & Media Art Festival
    • Dreamspeakers Film Festival
    • ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival

    Links

    Empty

    Empty

    Source: Winnipeg Film Group | Author: Jackie Traverse

    Purchase the DVD "Empty" from the Winnipeg Film Group

    FINDING FOCUS: FRAMING CANADIAN MÉTIS AND FIRST NATIONS ON FILM

    Finding Focus

    Source: Winnipeg Film Group | Author: Written by Kevin Nikkel, Edited by Monica Lowe

    "Empty" is part of "Finding Focus". a resource guide designed to help High School educators utilize the wealth of creative short films made by talented independent filmmakers in Manitoba and across Canada that focus on Métis and First Nations issues and subject matters.

    More By Jackie Traverse

    Two Scoops

    • 2008
    • Jackie Traverse

    Hand-drawn illustrations animate this touching personal story about the "60’s Scoop” of Aboriginal children into the Canadian child-welfare system.

    Two Scoops

    Butterfly

    • 2007
    • Jackie Traverse

    a Tribute to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWGs)

    Butterfly

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