Nakoda Audio
Visual Club
This is a small selections of films from our collection. To date, the Nakoda AV Club has completed over 100 short films. Some of these are available to watch online on our Vimeo Channel. We've worked with many partners including: Yellowstone to Yukon, Banff National Park (November 2 2019), the Whyte Museum and Archives, Calgary Public Library, Calgary Arts Development Association (and their Original Peoples Investment Program), Femme Wave, Truck Gallery, Emmedia, Calgary Society for Independent Filmmakers, Quickdraw Animation Society, Calgary Animated Objects Society, Nakoda Youth Council, Wapikoni Mobile and the Banff Centre.
Our films premiere in our community but they have also screened at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, AlterNative Festival (Calgary), ImagineNative (Toronto), The NYU Indigenous Film Festival (New York), Dreamspeaker Festival (Edmonton), ThirdACTion Film Festival (Calgary), Works Festival (Edmonton), First Nations Film and Video Festival (Chicago), and American Indian Film Festival (San Fransisco). Our documentary and other films are regularly shown at libraries, arts galleries, and universities.
We also engage in other arts projects. In 2019 we held an exhibit of visual art as part of Rubaboo Festival. Our members perform at events such as Cochrane Light Up! and contribute annually to Indigenous day festivities. Follow us on Instagram (@nakodaav) to see our most recent projects.
The Flood in Morley
When Southern Alberta was devastated by catastrophic flooding an emergency shelter and support centre was established at Morley Community School, which became a temporary home for many local children. The Stoney Nakoda Audio Visual Club volunteered with youth affected by the flood, teaching animation fundamentals, drawing, storytelling, and sound recording. Written, illustrated, animated, edited, and voiced by children aged 4–10, this film was one of the works produced through that project. The children chose to tell this story because, while they cherished being together, they deeply missed their homes.
2013. 1:02 minutes. Stoney Nakoda Audio Visual Club.
Round Dance
As part of our process we request access from our community to tell stories. When we made our documentary Ahomapénî; Relations and Rez Dogs, we requested permission to tell the story of dogs in Morley by sponsoring a memorial round dance. Our thanks to the hosts Trilena and Melvin Lefthand and their friends & relatives (Trylen & Margy, Carly & Delora, Jay, Ron, Pat, Sandy) as well as Travein Poucette, Renita Young, Cherith Mark, Mark Laycock, Desi & Olivia Ear, Hank & Iona Snow, Alice Kaquitts, Barbera Hunter, Krista Hunter, Billy Snow. Special thanks to both the MC's Douglas Bonaise & Daniel Wildman, the stickman Davey Bremner, the floorman Reichel Poucette & all 26 singers who have came to rock mini'thni.
2018. 6:16 The Stoney Nakoda Audio Visual Club
Trailer: Terhpi Thâkthâja
Like many Canadian institutions, The Whyte museum is confronting its responsibilities to Îethka and other Indigenous peoples through the complex and often contentious process of reconciliation—one that carries both difficulty and hope. Can Îethka and the Whyte forge a more equitable path forward? Or will efforts to “reconcile” a troubled history continue to entrench Western values and constrain Îethka futurity? Through conversations with museum staff, Îethka knowledge keepers, and members of the Nakoda AV Club, this film explores possible paths ahead—and takes tentative steps toward a new journey.
2024. 25:15 The Stoney Nakoda Audio Visual Club
Pandemic PSA
When the pandemic members of the Nakoda AV Club worried about our community. Our lifeways are conducive to viral spread, because we visit a lot, we take care of our Elders and young ones together, and we have large families living in small spaces.
In collaboration with the Stoney Nakoda Youth Council we made this film. It was requested by the Emergency Response department, and made using social distancing and Alberta Health Service protocols.
2020. 4:04 The Stoney Nakoda Audio Visual Club