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Amanda Strong talks to CBC about her stop-motion short Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes)

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 01:40 PM PDT

Amanda Strong (NSI IndigiDocs) recently spoke to CBC about the making of her acclaimed stop-motion short Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) as the film has its CBC Gem streaming premiere.

Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) follows an Indigenous youth named Biidaaban who sets out to harvest sap from sugar maples in an urban Ontario neighbourhood, a practice that goes back to time immemorial for the Anishinaabe.

Helped by their friend, a 10,000-year-old shapeshifter named Sabe, and a ghost caribou and wolf — reminders of the history of the land — Biidaabaan can see the traces of the people, creatures, land and time as they work to continue in their ancestors’ movements.

Watch the film.

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Little Engine Moving Pictures announce sales, distro agent Imira for Starseeker series

Posted: 27 Jun 2019 12:57 PM PDT

Ben Mazzotta and Maria Kennedy (both NSI Features First) of Little Engine Moving Pictures have announced their agreement with Spanish company Imira Entertainment for management of international pre-sales and distribution of Little Engine pre-teen series Starseeker.

Imira’s regional sales teams across the globe will oversee worldwide distribution outside North America, while Maria will focus on the Canadian and US market.

Starseeker is about an unlikely team of four tweens who discover earth’s best-kept secret: extraterrestrials exist, and an Interplanetary Space Guard has recruited them to lead interstellar missions as the first human crew of the Starseeker.

Little Engine also announced that global sales for multi-platform preschool series Cutie Pugs will be handled by Bejuba! Entertainment.

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