Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush

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Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush
Born
Nutashkuan, Quebec, Canada
Alma mater Institut national de l'image et du son
OccupationFilmmaker
AwardsBest Short Documentary – ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival
2010 Do Not Tell (Ne le dis pas / Nika tshika uiten mishkut)
Best Canadian Short – Vancouver International Film Festival
2023 Katshinau

Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush is an Innu filmmaker from Nutashkuan, Quebec, Canada. [1] She is most noted as director of Do Not Tell (Ne le dis pas / Nika tshika uiten mishkut), which was the winner of the Best Short Documentary award at the 2010 ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, [2] and co-director with Julien G. Marcotte of Katshinau (Les Mains sales), which won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival [3] and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2023. [4]

Bellefleur-Kaltush trained at the Institut national de l'image et du son (INIS) in Quebec. [5] [6]

She has also directed episodes of the children's television series Couleurs du nord, and had an acting role in the television series Les Oubliettes.

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References

  1. "L’amour du 7e art de Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush". Ici Radio-Canada Première, February 23, 2023.
  2. Anne-Marie Yvon, "Porter un regard sur soi la caméra au poing". Ici Radio-Canada Espaces Autochtones, October 26, 2019.
  3. V.S. Wells, "VIFF announces award winners". The Georgia Straight , October 5, 2023.
  4. Pat Mullen, "TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Includes BlackBerry, Solo, Humanist Vampire". That Shelf, December 6, 2023.
  5. "ARTIST. WOMAN. INDIGENOUS.KUSHAPETSHEKAN / KOSAPITCIKAN – A GLIMPSE INTO THE OTHER WORLD. Immersive installation by artists Eruoma Awashish, Meky Ottawa and Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush". National Film Board of Canada. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
  6. "Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush". Inis (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2024-01-03.