• OUR ENDLESS RESISTANCE

    Featuring songwriter Shane Belcourt, author Maria Campbell
    and Metis Rights Advocate Tony Belcourt
    Directed by Shane Belcourt

    Shane Belcourt playing music

Amplify The Resistance

  • The only thing my grandmother, my great-grandmother, really bottom line, was land, that we get our land back.

    Maria Campbell

  • We had blinders on, we had a focus, we had a mission, we knew where we wanted to go. We wanted recognition by the government that we were an Aboriginal people with rights. Getting recognition of our rights and getting our land back, as far as I’m concerned that’s still the goal.

    Tony Belcourt

Episode 13

Synopsis

Métis writer, director, cinematographer and songwriter Shane Belcourt is a two-time CSA-nominated Director, with award-winning narrative and documentary works in both film and TV. Shane is an alumna of the TIFF Talent Lab and NSI’s Totally Television programs, and a member of the DGC. In this episode, Shane finds inspiration looking back on interviews he did with celebrated Métis author Maria Campbell, as well as with his father, an acclaimed Métis Rights leader Tony Belcourt. In the interviews Maria and Tony discuss the origins of the Rights movement in the 1960’s and the lessons gleaned from it. The episode shows us, from a Métis perspective, the ever-present focus on land in shaping identity and in providing a place for the community but how that is still something being sought today. Tony notes, “Getting recognition of our rights and getting our land back, as far as I’m concerned that’s still the goal.”

Shane interviews Maria and Tony as a way to retain Métis stories and political thought, while at the same time looking for ways to teach that to the next generation through his art. The episode explores Indigenous rights, the struggle to be recognized and asks what are the best ways to go about getting those things. It’s been a struggle and resistance for hundreds of years and today, there is still a resistance.

The Team:
  • Director: Shane Belcourt
  • Producer: Michelle St John
  • Producer: Jeremy Edwardes
  • Producer: Shane Belcourt
  • Executive Producer: Jim Compton
  • Executive Producer: R. Todd Ivey
  • Featuring: Shane Belcourt
  • Featuring: Maria Campbell
  • Featuring: Tony Belcourt
  • Cinematographer: Sean Stiller
  • Editor: Shane Belcourt
  • Sound and score: Anthony Wallace




Exerpts

28 Oct 2019,Exerpt

Web Teaser

Metis songwiter Shane Belcourt watches as Metis Author Maria Campbell and Metis Rights Advocate Tony Belcourt discuss the origins of the Rights movement in the 1960’s.

12 Oct 2019,Music Video

Again

Watch the music video for Shane Belcourt’s song Again.

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19 Jul 2019,Exerpt

Amplifier

Songwriter Shane Belcourt is accompanied by his producer Anthony Wallace and studio engineer Stephen Koszler, as they walk through the songwriting and studio recording process for Again.

  • SHANE BELCOURT Songwriter



    Shane Belcourt is a two-time CSA-nominated Director, with award-winning narrative and documentary works in both film and TV. His debut feature film TKARONTO, had a theatrical release, was sold to SuperChannel and Air Canada, and was showcased in both the TIFF Indigenous Cinema Retrospective and the UCLA Film & Television Archive traveling exhibition, “Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema”. Shane also directed CHANIE WENJACK which Walrus Magazine noted as “the Heritage Minute Canada needs to see”. His most recent feature film, RED ROVER, premiered at the Whistler Film Festival, opened the Canadian Film Festival, and was released in March 2020 to glowing reviews.

    On the documentary side of things, Shane directed KAHA:WI, which features dancer and choreographer Santee Smith. It premiered at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, aired on APTN and CBC Docs, and won a CSC award for Best Cinematography in 2016, along with a CSA Best Director nomination. Shane co-directed (with Lisa Jackson) the CBC one-hour INDICTMENT: THE CRIMES OF SHELLY CHARTIER which won Best Doc at imagineNATIVE. And most recently, Shane is in post-production on a new 13-part music documentary series, AMPLIFY, which he created and will air on APTN in the Fall of 2020. And was a Consulting Producer (writing room story editor) on CBC”s new drama seres, THE TRICKSTER, set to air Fall 2020.

    Currently Shane is in development to direct a feature documentary, BEAUTIFUL SCARS, for TVO and Sky Network on internationally acclaimed songwriter Tom Wilson, and a feature narrative based around a family tale entitled DUMBBELL, which received development funding from Telefilm Canada.

    Shane is an alumna of the TIFF Talent Lab and NSI’s Totally Television programs, and a member of the DGC.

    WEBSITE
    shane belcourt

Again was recorded at Revolution Studios Toronto.

Combining the highest standards in acoustic architecture with distinctive design character, Revolution Recording aims to provide a creative environment for artists, writers and producers, celebrating the joy and work of making music.

Address: 36 Laing St, Toronto, ON M4L 2N2
Website: www.revolutionrecording.com
Filming locations: City of Ottawa, National Archives of Canada