Fire Song
Wolfe VideoAndrew Martin gives a stellar performance as Shane, a gay Anishinaabe teenager in Northern Ontario struggling to support his family after his sister's suicide. Originally Shane planned to go away to college in the fall, and he had been trying to convince his secret boyfriend to come with him. Now he is torn between responsibilities at home and the promise of freedom calling from the city. When he finally has to choose between family or future, what will Shane do?
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- Fire Song picked up numerous awards at film festivals, including Best Picture awards at the Queer North Film Festival and ImagieNative Film and Media Arts Festival.
- It has also earned excellent reviews. Indiewire called it "a thoughtful and all-too-rare glimpse into an intersection of identities, marking a welcome new voice in Canadian cinema." The Film Corner called it "a deeply moving and an indelibly-captured slice-of-life portrait of young and old alike."
- Director Adam Garnet Jones is a gay Cree/Metis filmmaker originally from Edmonton. His short films have been broadcast widely on television and at film festivals. In 2008, Adam received the imagineNATIVE/Canwest Mentorship Award and was the recent recipient of the RBC Emerging Artist Award and the Jim Burt Screenwriting prize for the script for Fire Song.
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- Director: Adam Garnet Jones
- Writer: Adam Garnet Jones
- Length: 1 hrs. 36 mins.
- Rating: NR
- Released: Nov 08 2016
- Production Year: 2016
- TLA SKU: 1864277
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC Code: 754703764409
- Catalog #: DV37353402
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"FIRE SONG"
A Two Spirited Teen
Amos Lassen
Shane is a Two Spirited Anishinaabe teen. He lives in an aboriginal community in Northern Ontario with his mother Jackie. Shane's sister committed suicide some six weeks before the film opens... Read More
A Two Spirited Teen
Amos Lassen
Shane is a Two Spirited Anishinaabe teen. He lives in an aboriginal community in Northern Ontario with his mother Jackie. Shane's sister committed suicide some six weeks before the film opens... Read More