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Kuessipan
By
Myriam VerreaultDuration
116 MIN
Language
French, Innu
Subtitles
French/english
Country
Quebec
Year
2019
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.
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
