Rebel (2014 film)

Bihttoš (Rebel) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and released in 2014.[2] Blending live action and animation, the film depicts the relationship between her Sami father, Bjarne Store-Jakobsen, and her Blackfoot mother, Esther Tailfeathers, focusing in particular on the way her father's childhood experiences in Norway's residential school system contributed to their breakup.[2][3]

Rebel
Film poster
Bihttoš
Directed byElle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Written byElle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Produced byElle-Máijá Tailfeathers
CinematographyOliver Millar
Edited byBridget Durnford
Music byChad Neufeld
Ánde Somby
Jordan Wilson
Production
company
Violator Films
Release date
  • October 26, 2014 (2014-10-26) (ImagineNATIVE)[1]
Running time
14 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film premiered at the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in 2014, and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's Canada's Top Ten.[4] It was shortlisted for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.[5]

References
  1. "2014 imagineNATIVE Catalogue".
  2. "Vancouver filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers' emotional memoir screens at the Reel 2 Real Film Fest". The Georgia Straight, April 6, 2016.
  3. Storfjell, Troy (2019). "ELSEWHERES OF HEALING: TRANS-INDIGENOUS SPACES IN ELLE-MÁIJÁAPINISKIM TAILFEATHERS' BIHTTOŠ". In Stenport, Anna Westerståhl; Lunde, Arne Olav (eds.). Nordic film cultures and cinemas of elsewhere. Traditions in world cinema. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-3805-6. OCLC 1085204238.
  4. Bellrichard, Chantelle (January 25, 2015). "5 under 30 to watch in 2015". CBC News. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  5. "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada, January 19, 2016.

Further reading
  • MacKenzie, Scott and Anna Westerståhl Stenport. 2016. “Contemporary experimental feminist Sámi documentary: the first person politics of Liselotte Wajstedt and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 6 (2): 169–82


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