Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush | |
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Born | Nutashkuan, Quebec, Canada |
Alma mater | Institut national de l'image et du son |
Occupation | Filmmaker |
Awards | Best 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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