Director's Notes

FILMOGRAPHY

Paul M. Rickard

  • 2010 September

    Director / Producer / Director of Photography / Editor “Ever Good Hunter Me” Documentary (76 min) Production Company: Achimist Films Inc.

    The film follows five Aboriginal young hunters over the course of a week during the traditional spring goose hunt in Northern Ontario as they learn the importance of the hunt, overcome the many challenges that come with it, and in the process begin to take their place as young adults in the family.

  • 2009 June

    Producer “Finding Our Talk 3” Documentary Series (24 min x 13) Mushkeg Media (FOT3) Inc. Producers: Paul M. Rickard and George Hargrave

    The third season of Finding Our Talk looks at innovative programs with an international perspective that includes episodes shot in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Latin and South America.

    • 2009 International Cherokee Film Festival, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Hawaii and Chitimacha Episodes
    • Broadcast on Maori TV in New Zealand

  • 2009 May

    Director “Languages Under Attack” Finding Our Talk 3 Documentary Series (24 min) Mushkeg Media (FOT3) Inc. Producers: Paul M. Rickard and George Hargrave

    In the last two hundred years, Australia has suffered the largest and most rapid loss of languages known to history. In Nambucca Heads, the Guymbaynggirr people work to revive a near extinct language, while in Alice Springs vibrant languages learned at home are struggling to survive government policies and cultural prejudices.

  • 2008 July

    Producer “Little Caughnawaga: From Brooklyn and Back” Documentary (48 min) Mushkeg Media Inc. and National Film Board of Canada Producers: Paul M. Rickard, George Hargrave, Kat Baulu and Germain Wong Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards, Best Film, 2006

    The personal story of Mohawk filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell from Kahnawake, Quebec, as she explores her roots and traces the connections of her family to the Mohawk community in Brooklyn, New York.

    • 2009 Cine Las Americas
    • 2008 Imagine Native Media Arts + Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • 2008 Native American Film and Video Festival
    • 2008 Terre En Vues, First Peoples Film Festival
    • 2008 Deamspeaker Festival
    • 2008 Native Cinema Showcase
    • 2008 Cinema 10
    • 2008 American Indian Film Festival – Bellevue College
    • 2008 American Indian Film Festival – Best Feature Documentary
    • 2008 Weenebeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival
    • 2008 Winnipeg Aboriginal Festival – Best Documentary
    • TV Broadcast on APTN and PBS in the USA

  • 2008 June

    Director “Kanien’keha:ka – Living the Language” Feature Length Documentary (48 min x 2) Co-directed with Tracey Deer Mushkeg Productions Inc. in association APTN Producers: Paul M. Rickard and George Hargrave

    A two part documentary about the personal, thought provoking and honest stories of the Mohawk language (Kanien’kehá:ka) immersion program in Akwesasne.

    • 2008 Cine Las Americas
    • 2008 Native American Film and Video Festival – US Premiere
    • 2008 Terres En Vues, First Peoples Film Festival
    • 2008 Weenebeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival
    • 2007 Imagine Native Media Arts + Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • TV Broadcast on APTN

  • 2005 October

    Director “Aboriginal Architecture - Living Architecture” Feature Length Documentary (90 min) Mushkeg Media Inc. in association with National Film Board of Canada/APTN and SCN Producers: Paul M. Rickard and George Hargrave

    A documentary that explores the way Aboriginal architecture reflects the diversity of environments and Aboriginal cultures across North America.

    • 2005 Imagine Native Media Arts + Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • TV Broadcast on APTN and PBS in USA

  • 2005 April

    Director "The Winter Chill" Short Drama (24:50) Achimist Film Inc. Producers: Paul M. Rickard and Daniele Rohrbach Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards, Best Film, 2006

    A short drama that follows a young Cree man into the bush where he is reluctantly tending his father’s trapline only to run headlong into the legendary Cree creature, Pakaaskokan.

    • 2007 Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Mashantucket, CT, USA
    • 2006 NSI Film Exchange, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
    • 2006 Weeneebeg Aboriginal Film & Video Festival, Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada
    • 2006 Yorkton Short Film and Festival (Nominated Best Aboriginal Short and Best Performance Male for Dakota House), Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
    • 2006 Land Insights – Terres En Vues, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006 Rural Route Film and Video Festival, New York City, New York, USA
    • 2006 Native Cinema Showcase, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
    • 2006 Denver Indigenous Film Festival, Denver, Colorado, USA
    • 2006 Cinefest International Film Festival, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    • 2006 International Cherokee Film Festival, Tahlequah, OK, USA (Winner Best Native Short, Best Actor – Dakota House, Best Director – Paul M Rickard)
    • 2006 Native American Film and Video Festival, New York, NY, USA
    • 2005 Imagine Native Media Arts + Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • 2005 American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA (Nominated Best Live Short)
    • TV Broadcast on APTN

  • 2002

    Director “Finding Our Talk - Season One and Two” Documentary Series (26 x 45 mins) Mushkeg Media Inc. Producers: Paul M. Rickard and George Hargrave

    • TV Broadcast on APTN. SCN in Saskatchewan, NITV in Australia and Maori TV in New Zealand

  • 2000 March

    Director "Finding My Talk: A Journey into Aboriginal Languages" Documentary (48 min) Achimist Film Inc./Nutaaq Media Inc. Producers: Paul M. Rickard, George Hargrave

    A filmmaker looks at his Cree language roots and presents the work Native people across Canada are doing to revive and preserve First Nations languages.


  • 1998 June

    Director “Okimah” Documentary (50:40) National Film Board of Canada Producer: Germaine Wong

    Filmmaker Paul M. Rickard takes us along with his family on a fall goose hunt in the surrounding areas of Moose River in northern Ontario.

    • 1998 Vancouver International Film Festival
    • 1998 Best of the Fest Winner, Far North Film Festival, Yellowknife, NWT
    • TV Broadcast on Vision TV and APTN

  • 1996 March

    Director “Ayouwin: A Way of Life” Documentary (28 min.) Achimist Films and Wild Heart Productions Director: Paul M. Rickard

    In northern Canada, the videomaker documents his seventy-year-old father, a traditional Cree trapper and elder, as he harvests beaver at the end of the trapping season.

    • TV Broadcast on TV Ontario