DOCUMENTARIES
As a cinematographer, Cliff adds his award-winning film lighting style to the world of documentary Films, creating beautiful images to enhance heart felt stories
Cliff is Métis and has a passion for Indigenous projects.
Beau Dick. He was an enigmatic carver from a small remote village on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. Beau Dick's remarkable masks have been celebrated across the global art scene as vibrant expressions of West Coast Indigenous culture and a sophisticated crossover into the contemporary art world.
Directed by
Barbara Todd Hager
In the feature documentary Leaving Beringia, Métis Cree filmmaker Barbara Todd Hager embarks on a life-changing journey to eight of the oldest Indigenous archaeological sites in North and South America, where she’ll discover that studying ancient tools is not the only way to uncover the ways of life of her ancestors. Filmed on location at sites from Nome Alaska to Tulum Mexico that were once occupied tens of thousands of years ago, her ground-breaking conversations with Indigenous knowledge keepers and culturally aligned archaeologists will reveal a compelling new narrative of the first people of the Americas drawn from origin stories and Indigenous ways of knowing.
Premiering 2025
Directed by
Leona Krahn
Vivi Dabee is thrilled to be selected as part of the 2019 lottery draw for one of 50 coveted spots in the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. And if writing and producing a play for the first time isn't daunting enough, Dabee is doing it without her sight.
This is the premise of Vivi's Vision, a new documentary released by CBC as part of the Absolutely Manitoba series.
Directed by
Barbara Todd Hager
This documentary explores the extraordinary lives of Kwakwaka’wakw Chief Mungo Martin and Jewish ethno-musicologist Ida Halpern. Their combined efforts nearly 75 years ago led to preventing hundreds of First Nations songs from being lost forever. Ida, an Austrian-Jewish musicologist, was born in 1910 in Vienna and was expelled by the Nazis from the University of Vienna. She recorded the songs of many Indigenous chiefs and song keepers in British Columbia. An impressive 342 songs that she recorded were released by Folkway Records in New York, and are now part of the Smithsonian Institution’s collections, saving lost Indigenous heritage. Premiering 2025