Tkaronto (2007)

Directed by

Shane Belcourt

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 45m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two Indigenous professionals meet in Toronto while working on separate projects. A Métis cartoonist pitches an animated series and an Anishinaabe artist paints a portrait of a local elder. Their time in the city leads to conversations about identity and home.

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What happens

Tkaronto is a Canadian drama film, which premiered in 2007 at the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto. Directed by Shane Belcourt, the film went into commercial release in the summer of 2008. The film, named for the Mohawk word from which the name of the city of Toronto is derived, stars Duane Murray and Melanie McLaren as Ray Morrin and Jolene Peltier, who meet while in Toronto on business. Ray, a Métis cartoonist from Vancouver, is in town to pitch an animated series called Indian Jones to a television network, and Jolene, an Anishinaabe artist from Los Angeles, is in town to paint a portrait of Max (Lorne Cardinal), a local indigenous elder. The film's cast also includes Cheri Maracle, Jeff Geddis, Mike McPhaden, Rae Ellen Bodie, Jonah Allison, Abby Zotz, Sandy Jobin-Bevans and Tricia Williams. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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