Yellowknife musician, writer and now filmmaker Miranda CurrieSA国际影视传媒檚 10-minute documentary Tails on Ice was featured in last weekSA国际影视传媒檚 2021 Cannes Short Film Festival.
Currie applied for her film to be featured back in May on an app called Film Freeway. She was scrolling though the app, noticed the festival and remembered her sister always saying, SA国际影视传媒淵ou miss 100 per cent of the opportunities you donSA国际影视传媒檛 take.SA国际影视传媒�
Three months after she applied, SA国际影视传媒淚 honestly forgot about it,SA国际影视传媒� Currie admitted.
Then one morning in July, she woke up to an email that her film was going to be featured.
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Tails on Ice is CurrieSA国际影视传媒檚 first ever film released to the public.
The project was made possible with support from the National Screen InstituteSA国际影视传媒檚 IndigiDocs training program. She thought this program would be a great way to help her gain the skills to learn how to make a quality film.
Currie applied in August 2019 but didnSA国际影视传媒檛 hear back until four months later. For two weeks in February, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, she travelled to Winnipeg to participate in the two-week IndigiDocs program boot camp. Out of four people, CurrieSA国际影视传媒檚 concept was chosen to receive $26,000 to proceed to the filming stage.
Then she dove right into creating a film during a virus fraught 2020.
Out on Yellowknife Bay, SA国际影视传媒淲e started filming in a pandemic right at the beginning of COVID-19, which was crazy,SA国际影视传媒� she recalled.
Her location was right outside her backyard, and she filmed out on the lake for three days with three sled dogs.
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Currie said to make and finalize the documentary took her and a team about a year.
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Having her film screened during such a high-profile event in France can help build her reputation, she said.
SA国际影视传媒淚 think the most significant thing about having my film in the official collective of the Cannes Short Film Festivals, is that it lends me some credibility as a filmmaker,SA国际影视传媒� she said. SA国际影视传媒淔or me, thatSA国际影视传媒檚 a really important stepping stone in my career as a filmmaker.SA国际影视传媒�
CurrieSA国际影视传媒檚 future goals include the creation of a Northern Indigenous childrenSA国际影视传媒檚 television show.
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Even though the 2021 Cannes Short Film Festival is over, SA国际影视传媒淚SA国际影视传媒檓 keeping my figures crossed that it [Tails on Ice] might be a selection at the Yellowknife Film Festival as well.SA国际影视传媒� That event runs from Nov. 3 to Nov. 7.
