Ervin Chartrand

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Ervin Chartrand
Born
Winnipegosis, Manitoba, Canada
Nationality Pine Creek First Nation, Canadian
Education University of Winnipeg (Bachelor of Arts, 2017)
Notable work504938C (2005)
First Stories: Patrick Ross (2006)
Awards2005 Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival - New Talent Award,
2006 Yorkton Film Festival, Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal,
2006 ReelWorld Film Festival, ReelWorld Award - Outstanding Canadian Short Film

Ervin Chartrand is a Canadian and Pine Creek First Nation director, writer and producer. [1] He is best known for directing the films 504938C (2005) and First Stories: Patrick Ross (2006). [1]

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Personal life

Ervin Chartrand is a Métis/Ojibwe [2] from Pine Creek First Nation [3] Camperville, Manitoba, Canada. [1]

Chartrand earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in film studies [1] from the University of Winnipeg in 2017. [4]

Career

Chartrand first began his career in film in 2003, after enrolling in Winnipeg's Aboriginal Broadcast Training Initiative, [5] sponsored by the Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre. [1] He worked as a camera assistant on the APTN TV series The Sharing Circle and the Canadian TV series Tipi Tales as a puppet wrangler. [1] [5] Chartrand studied acting with the Academy of Broadcasting Corporation in Winnipeg. [1]

In 2005, Chartrand received the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, Best New Talent award for the film 504938C (2005). [1] 50938C was created with the support of the Winnipeg Film Group's First Film program. [6] In 2006, he won the Reelworld Film Festival, Reel World Award for Outstanding Canadian Short Film for Patrick Ross (2006). [7] He was invited to direct this short film by the National Film Board of Canada for the movie series First Stories, the Manitoba (Volume I). [8] Patrick Ross also won the 2006 Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal. [8] If this Was Right (2008), a film with rap artist and CBC host Wab Kinew and directed by Chartrand, was nominated for the 2008 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award, Best Music Video. [1] Chartrand was the winner of the Canwest Mentorship Program at the 2010 imagineNATIVE film + Media Arts Festival. [9] In 2017, Other Side of The 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story was nominated for the Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Documentary History & Biography. [10]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotesReference
2005504938CDirector/Producer/Writer Winnipeg Film Group's First Film program short film [11]
2006First Stories - Patrick RossDirector/Writer NFB Prairie Centre: First Stories a competitive documentary production program. [12]
2007SisterDirector APTN’s Short Cuts program [11] [13]
2008If this Was RightDirectorMusic video with rap artist and CBC host Wab Kinew [14]
2011Life From 95Director/Writer/ProducerShort film [11]
2012FightDirector/WriterNFB Short film [15] [12]
2014 Lifer Director/WriterShort film [1]
2014TraffickingDirector/WriterShort film [1] [16]
2015Illusion DelusionDirector/WriterShort film [16]
2016Other Side of 49th: The Garry Sawatzky StoryDirector/WriterTV movie [10] [17]

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References

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  2. ↑ Fortney, Valerie (19 March 2017). "Former gang member says growing trend a wakeup call for all". Winnipeg Sun. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. ↑ Fortney, Valerie (16 Mar 2017). "Education best tool to fight gangs: ex-member". Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Calgary Herald. p. 2. Retrieved 30 April 2020– via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "SPRING 2017 CONVOCATION" (PDF). University of Winnipeg. p. 15. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  5. 1 2 "The Sixth Annual REELWORLD Film Festival" (PDF). ReelWorld. Toronto, Ontario. 2006. p. 94. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  6. ↑ Crowe, Kathleen Buddle (2006). "Bullets for B-Roll: Shooting Native Films and Street Gangs in Western Canadian Cities (From Big House to Home)". University of Manitoba. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  7. ↑ Buddle, Kathleen (2011). "Urban Aboriginal Gangs and Street Sociality in the Canadian West". In Howard, Heather A.; Proulx, Craig (eds.). Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 199. ISBN   978-1-55458-260-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
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  9. ↑ "Award Winners: 2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival". Media Indigena: interactive indigenous insight. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  10. 1 2 "2017 Winners & Nominees". Yorkton Film Festival. 2017. Archived from the original on 8 November 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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  13. ↑ Knopf (2008). "Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence against Aboriginal Women as Represented in Canadian Films". In Knopf, Kerstin (ed.). Aboriginal Canada Revisited. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: University of Ottawa Press. p. 361. ISBN   978-0-7766-0679-8.
  14. ↑ "Wab Kinew releases music video". Indigenous Music. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  15. ↑ "Our Collection: Fight". National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
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  17. ↑ "Other Side of the 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story". CBC News. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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