In front of and behind the camera's eye: First Nations culture today
To provide young people with a place where they can dream, a place for meeting others, for expression, for learning, for exchanging ideas, and for gaining confidence in themselves, filmmaker Manon Barbeau has dedicated her time and energy over a number of years to the Wapikoni mobile and Cinéma Paradiso projects. These two travelling studios offer an ever- IETM Montréal 2007 16/32 increasing number of young people the chance to express themselves by making films and recording music, alone or in a group. Ms. Barbeau and one of the young filmmakers will be on hand to present several short films made in the Wapikoni mobile studio, a lead-in for a discussion about the contemporary First Nations artists who, without turning their backs on their culture of origin, reinvent the means of expression by which they transmit their messages to us.
