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Kuessipan

By

Myriam Verreault

Duration

116 MIN

Language

French, Innu

Subtitles

French/english

Country

Quebec

Year

2019

Let yourself be tempted by an INITIATORY DRAMA on COMMUNITY
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Synopsis

Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community. While Mikuan has a loving family, Shaniss is picking up the pieces of her shattered childhood. As children, they promised each other to stick together no matter what. But as they’re about to turn 17, their friendship is shaken when Mikuan falls for a white boy, and starts dreaming of leaving the reserve that’s now too small for her dreams.

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Direction

Myriam Verreault

Myriam Verreault holds a bachelor’s degree from Université Laval, where she majored in film studies with a minor in history. After graduating from Cégep de Jonquière with a DEC in media arts and technology, she coordinated and directed a radio documentary series recorded in West Africa for Ados-Radio (Radio-Canada). Myriam Verreault is a co-founder of the Festival du film étudiant de Québec and of the Festival de films de Portneuf sur l’environnement. She has been a member of the board of the Spirafilm independent filmmakers’ cooperative during four years. She worked also as a property master and a freelance editor from her home studio.

Myriam Verreault scripted, co-directed, produced, and edited her first feature, West of Pluto. The film had its world premiere as the opening film of the Tiger Award competition at Rotterdam 2009 and went on to screen at some fifty festivals around the world, winning numerous prizes. Since then, she has directed several interactive works for the National Film Board of Canada. She also edited Québékoisie a feature documentary that explores the cultural legacy of Quebec’s First Nations. Kuessipan is her second feature film.

Costume

Marjolayne Desrosiers

Music

Louis-Jean Cormier

Editing

Amélie Labrèche
Sophie Leblond
Myriam Verreault

Sound mixing

Bernard Gariépy Strobl

Sound designer

Sylvain Bellemare
Frédéric Cloutier
Stephen De Oliveira
Samuel Gagnon-Thibodeau

Cinematographer

Nicolas Canniccioni

Screenplay

Naomi Fontaine
Myriam Verreault

Producer

Félize Frappier

Distributor

Andrew Noble

Cast

Cédrick Ambroise
Anniss Desterres
Joe Fontaine
Roselyn Fontaine
Ariel Fontaine St-Onge
Sharon Fontaine-Ishpatao
Étienne Galloy
Douglas Grégoire
Yamie Grégoire
Katinen Grégoire-Fontaine
Mike Innu Papu Mckenzie
Caroline Vachon

Art direction

Joëlle Péloquin

Original Title

Kuessipan

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