How People Got Fire
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{{Infobox film
| name = How People Got Fire
| image = How_people_got_fire_tish.jpg
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| director = Daniel Janke
| producer = Svend-Erik Eriksen, Martin Rose
| writer = Daniel Janke
| narrator = Louise Profeit-Leblanc
| animator = Christopher Auchter
Stuart Andrew Sharp
Jay White
| music = Daniel Janke
| cinematography = Brian Johnson
| editing = Andrew Connors
| distributor = National Film Board of Canada
| released = {{Film date|2008}}
| runtime = 16 minutes
| country = Canada
| language = English
French{{Cite press release | title = Graduate Scholarship Will Be Legacy of "How People Got Fire" | publisher = National Film Board of Canada | date = 2006-05-08 | url = http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/press-room/?id=14767 | accessdate = 2010-02-20}}
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How People Got Fire is a short, poetic animated film from the Yukon.
Synopsis
In a snowy village, a talented young girl listens to her grandmother's story of how Crow got fire for the people. A magical realist exploration of aboriginal American spirituality, oral story-telling, and a northern childhood.
About the film
"This short film is based in part on the story told by the late Kitty Smith of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation."{{Cite web
| title = How People Got Fire - DVD/Comment les humains ont obtenu le feu - DVD
| publisher = National Film Board of Canada
| date = 2006-05-08
| url = http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=57017
| accessdate = 2010-01-26
| archive-date = February 2, 2011
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110202031508/http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=57017
| url-status = dead
}}
The film was shot in Carcross-Tagish, Yukon and rotoscoped,{{Cite news
|title = How People Got Fire Premieres at ALFF
|publisher = "What's Up Yukon, All Northern, All Fun"
|date = 2009-02-20
|url = http://www.whatsupyukon.com/index.php/current-issue/931-how-people-got-fire-premieres-at-alff.html
|accessdate = 2010-02-20
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718035148/http://www.whatsupyukon.com/index.php/current-issue/931-how-people-got-fire-premieres-at-alff.html
|archive-date = 2011-07-18
|url-status = dead
}} with the addition of charcoal drawings by Christopher Auchter, and a contemporary classical sound track by Daniel Janke.{{cite web
|title=How People Got Fire excerpt
|publisher=Daniel Janke
|date=2010-02-20
|url=http://www.danieljanke.com/daniel/music/how_people_got_fire.mp3
|accessdate=2010-02-20
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The film was the 2009 World Indigenous Film Awards Winner for Best Animation, and received the 2009 American Indian Film Festival Award, Best Animated Short. It received an award for Best Short Documentary at the 2009
Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, and the TEUEIKAN Second Prize at the 2009 First Peoples' Festival (Land InSights), Montréal.{{Cite web
| title = Film Collection, National Film Board of Canada, How People Got Fire
| publisher = National Film Board of Canada
| date = 2010-08-03
| url = http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=53743#nav-prix
| accessdate = 2011-07-24}} The film was a finalist for the Writers Guild of Canada 2010 Screenwriting Award for Short Subjects.{{cite web
| title = The Finalists!
| publisher = Running with my Eyes Closed, Life at the Intersection of Television and Digital
| year = 2010
| url = http://www.jillgolick.com/2010/02/the-finalists-2/
| accessdate = 2010-06-26}}
Festivals
- "Tromsø International Film Festival, Frozen Land-Moving Pictures", Jan. 18-23, 2011{{cite web
| title = FFN – POLAR FOCUS 2
| publisher = Tromso International Film Festival
| year = 2010
| url = http://www.tiff.no/?go=film&id=440
| accessdate = 2010-06-26}}
- "Atlantic Film Festival", Sept. 16-25, 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia{{cite web
|title=How People Got Fire
|publisher=Atlantic Film Festival
|year=2010
|url=http://atlantic.bside.com/2009/films/howpeoplegotfire_atlantic2009
|accessdate=2010-06-26
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031092742/http://atlantic.bside.com/2009/films/howpeoplegotfire_atlantic2009
|archivedate=2009-10-31
}}
- "Sprockets: Toronto International Film Festival for Children", April 17–23, 2010{{cite web
|title=How People Got Fire
|publisher=Sprockets 2010, Toronto International Film Festival for Children
|date=2010-02-20
|url=http://www.sprockets.ca/filmsandschedule/films/howpeoplegotfire/default.aspx
|accessdate=2010-02-20
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313134849/http://www.sprockets.ca/filmsandschedule/films/howpeoplegotfire/default.aspx
|archivedate=2010-03-13
}}
- "ECOFILMS: Rhodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival", 2010{{cite web
| title = Competition short length films
| publisher = ECOFILMS: Rhodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival
| year = 2010
| url = http://www.ecofilms.gr/03.1.films_en.asp
| accessdate = 2010-06-26}}
- "Animation Celebration!", Museum of the American Indian, New York, February 2010{{cite web
| title = How People Got Fire
| publisher = Animation Celebration!", Museum of the American Indian, New York, February 2010
| date = 2010-02-20
| url = http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=events&second=ny
| accessdate = 2010-02-20
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100202025411/http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?second=ny&subpage=events
| archive-date = 2010-02-02
| url-status = dead
}}
- "American Indian Film Festival", Nov. 6-14, 2009, San Francisco, CA{{cite web
|title=34th Annual American Indian Film Festival
|publisher=American Indian Film Institute
|year=2009
|url=http://www.aifisf.com/aiff/2009/?fMenu=&q=&fContent=film&id=247
|accessdate=2010-06-26
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707094908/http://www.aifisf.com/aiff/2009/?fMenu=&q=&fContent=film&id=247
|archivedate=2011-07-07
}}
- "ImagiNATIVE Film - Media Arts Festival", Oct. 14-18, 2009, Toronto{{cite web
|title=Shout Out Loud Youth Program-
|publisher=ImagiNATIVE Film - Media Arts Festival
|year=2009
|url=http://www.imaginenative.org/program.php?id=74
|accessdate=2010-06-26
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091214162542/http://www.imaginenative.org/program.php?id=74
|archivedate=2009-12-14
}}
- "Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth, Vancouver BC, 2009{{cite web
| title = How People Got Fire
| publisher = Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth
| date = 2010-02-20
| url = http://r2rfestival.org/2009/shortfilms/How-People-Got-Fire
| accessdate = 2010-02-20}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
- "The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival", 14–29 October 2009{{cite web
| title = Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences
| publisher = British Film Institute
| year = 2009
| url = http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/338
| accessdate = 2010-06-26
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090914084351/http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/338
| archivedate = 2009-09-14 }}
See also
References
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External links
- {{imdb title|1545307}}
- Watch [http://www.nfb.ca/film/how_people_got_fire/ How People Got Fire] at the National Film Board of Canada website (requires Adobe Flash)
Category:National Film Board of Canada animated short films
Category:2008 animated short films
Category:Works about storytelling