Still from MIA' (SALMON)
Still from MIA' (SALMON)
 

Mia’ (Salmon)

by Amanda Strong & Bracken Hanuse Corlett
A young Indigenous female street artist named Mia’ walks through the city streets painting scenes rooted in the supernatural history of her people.
2015  ·  8m  ·  Canada
English
About the Film
A young Indigenous female street artist named Mia’ walks through the city streets painting scenes rooted in the supernatural history of her people. Lacking cultural resources and familial connection within the city, she paints these images from intuition and blood memory. She has not heard the stories from her Elders lips, but has found her own methods to re-discover them. The alleyways become her sanctuary and secret gallery, and her art comes to life. Mia’ is pulled into her own transformation via the vessel of a salmon. In the struggle to return home, she traverses through polluted waters and skies, witnessing various forms of industrial violence and imprint that have occurred upon the land.  Mia’ is a hybrid documentary using animation and sound as a vehicle to tell the story of transformation and re-connection. Indigenous people in Canada experienced displacement once commercial trade turned into settlement. Today the urban population of Native people now outnumbers those living on-reserve. Many struggle being disconnected from their land, rites, and protocol. This film is not an adaptation or a re-telling of a traditional story but is based in the circular time of, and passage of, oral history. Mia’ challenges the notions and format of conventional documentaries and presents Indigenous oral traditions as truth and not myth or legend.
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Festivals and Awards
2015
Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) , Official Selection
2015
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Official Selection
Editor
Luke Sargent
Producer
Amanda Strong, Luke Sargent and Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Sound Editor
Mitchell Wrathgeb
Sound Recorder
Geoff Mitchell
Soundtrack Composer
Troy Slocum and Menalon
Stop Motion Animation
Edward Masterhuis and Amanda Strong
Computer Animation
Jay White and Ron McDougall
Writer
Amanda Strong & Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Puppet Creation
Amanda Strong
Puppet Consultant
Terril Calder
Set Construction
Edward Westerhuis, Jeneen Frei NJootli, Raven John, Troy Slocum and Damien Buddy Eagle Bear
Production Design
Jeneen Frei NJootli and Raven John
Visual Effects
Sahar Homami, Jay White, Amanda Strong, Ron McDougall and Terril Calder

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