Unit 8: Theatre / Film Critical Reaction
Unit 8 of English First Peoples looks at Theatre & Film created by Indigenous artists (sorry Shakespeare!) Below is a list of films and plays that you can use. You can choose either a play or a film. If there is a film or play that you’d like to use that isn’t on this list let me know and we can discuss!
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FILMS:
- Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
- Indian Horse
- Monkey Beach
- Maker of Monsters (documentary)
- Colonization Road: Settlers Move Into Canada (documentary)
- Reel Injun (documentary)
- Smoke Signals
- Hank Williams First Nation
- Whale Rider
- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (documentary)
- Once Were Warriors
- Powwow Highway
- Edge of the Knife: SG̲aawaay Ḵ’uuna
- 8th Fire (documentary series)
- Dance Me Outside
- Searching for Winnetou (documentary)
- Four Sheets to the Wind
- Mekko
- Rabbit Proof Fence
- Ten Canoes
- White Shamans & Plastic Medicine Men (documentary)
PLAYS:
- ‘Only Drunks & Children Tell the Truth’ – Drew Hayden Taylor
- ‘The Rez Sisters’ – Tomson Highway
- ‘Thanks For Giving’ – Kevin Loring
- ‘Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing’ – Tomson Highway
- ‘Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion’ – Drew Hayden Taylor
- ‘Dead White Writer on the Floor’ – Drew Hayden Taylor
- ‘God and the Indian’ – Drew Hayden Taylor
- ‘Two Plays: Tales of an Urban Indian/The Trickster of Third Avenue East’ – Darrell Dennis
- ‘Where the Blood Mixes’ – Kevin Loring
- ‘Staging Coyote’s Dream’ Volumes 1 & 2 – Various authors
- ‘Two-Spirit Acts: Queer Indigenous Performances’ – Various authors
- ‘Tombs of the Vanishing Indian’ – Marie Clements
Here are the guidelines for this unit:
