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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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Urban Eclipse: Rising Tides of Kekekoziibii (Shoal Lake 40 First Nation)

By Jesse Green, Vanda Fleury-Green | 01:17:10 | Documentary | 2010-12-18

Filmmaker Jesse Green travels to his home community of Shoal Lake 40 interviewing people about the impacts of the City of Winnipeg aqueduct in the 100+ years since it was built. Weaving in interviews with historians and archival material Green builds a strong case about the exploitation of his community.

On the Trail of the Far Fur Country

By Kevin Nikkel | 01:20:00 | Documentary | 19/03/2014

In 1919, a film crew set out on an epic journey across Canada's North. Over the course of six months, their expedition traveled by icebreaker, canoe, and dog sled, capturing the Canadian fur trade in a silent feature documentary. The Romance of the Far Fur Country was released in 1920, two years before the legendary…

Controversies

By Ryan McKenna | 00:16:37 | Documentary | 01/03/2014

Using archival audio from the popular Action Line talk show, when it was a cultural phenomena in Winnipeg in the 1980s, the moderator â Peter Warren â has been edited out, focusing instead on the colorful characters that would call-in. Controversies unfolds like a filmed picture book, as we watch people listen to the various…

Rabbit Pie

By Allan Kroeker, Winnipeg Film Group (WFG) | 00:09:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/1976

The first production released by the Winnipeg Film Group! A restaurant serves cute little bunny rabbits. Yum-yum! One of the Film Group's greatest ventures, this light comedy features Peter Paul Van Camp as an industrious writer who sits and composes his poem about bunnies while at the very next table, the special entree - rabbit…

Souvenirs: Waiting for the Parade

By Paula Kelly | 00:07:18 | Documentary | 01/09/2008

Waiting for the Parade transforms the 75th anniversary celebration of Winnipeg in 1948 into a discourse on the city's shifting identities through decades of progress and regress, cynicism and hope.This film is part of a trio of shorts (Sand and Stone, Watermarks, Waiting for the Parade) about the city of Winnipeg, which sift through the…

Souvenirs: Sand and Stone

By Paula Kelly | 00:06:00 | Documentary | 01/09/2008

Souvenirs is a trio of short films (Sand and Stone, Watermarks, Waiting for the Parade) about the city of Winnipeg, which sift through the accumulated layers of history, experience and identity of a place which we, collectively, call home. Sand and Stone digs up the history of hard labour and the urban landscapeâthe workers who…

Governorâs Company of Adventurers, The

By Rob Haacke | 00:10:16 | Narrative-Fiction | 28/02/2011

In the year of 1824 an important female passenger sits mid-ship in a fur trade canoe en route to York Factory. Francois Leclair, a veteran of the trade and leader of the ill-fated expedition, is held responsible when the passenger does not reach her destination.

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The Winnipeg Film Group is located on Treaty 1 Territory and on the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples and in the homeland of the Métis Nation. We offer our respect and gratitude to the traditional caretakers of this land.

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