Tank Standing Buffalo

Last updated

Tank Standing Buffalo is a Canadian artist from Calgary, Alberta. [1] He is most noted for his 2023 animated short film MONSTR, which was included in HBO Max's animation anthology Only You: An Animated Shorts Collection. [2]

Contents

Background

Of mixed Potawatomi and Black Canadian descent, his mother is a member of the Caldwell First Nation in Southwestern Ontario. [3] He had a troubled childhood, and spent some time in detention as a young offender following a robbery. [4]

Career

His 2020 short film RKLSS centred on his time as a young offender, shedding light in particular on the inhumanity of solitary confinement practices, and premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. [4]

He followed up in 2022 with SAVJ, a prequel film about the childhood experience of being taken into foster care that first set him on the path to his troubled teenage years. [5] The film, which featured Corey Feldman voicing Standing Buffalo's character, premiered at the 2022 Calgary International Film Festival. [6]

MONSTR centred on his experience following his wife's death of a brain aneurysm, when he confronted his inner demons walking in the forest along the British Columbia Coast before taking a year-long apprenticeship with a wood carver. [2] The film premiered as part of HBO Max's Only You in March 2023. [1]

In addition to animation, Standing Buffalo has also worked in sculpture, illustration, tattoo art and tiki mug design. [4]

Awards

In May 2023, he was named one of the recipients of the inaugural Jeff Barnaby Grant for emerging indigenous filmmakers from Netflix and the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. [7]

At the 2023 Calgary International Film Festival, MONSTR won the Devon Bolton Memorial Award for best Alberta short film, [8] and the Audience Choice award for best Alberta short film. [9]

Related Research Articles

The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is a film festival held annually in Calgary, Alberta, in late September and early October.

Calgary Animated Objects Society (CAOS) is a non-profit charitable arts organization based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kent Hehr</span> Canadian politician (born 1969)

Kent Hehr is a Canadian politician from Alberta. He served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Calgary Centre from 2015 to 2019. Hehr was named Minister of Veterans Affairs in the federal Cabinet, headed by Justin Trudeau, on November 4, 2015, and was shuffled to be Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities in August 2017. Hehr resigned from cabinet on January 25, 2018, after allegations of workplace misconduct surfaced from when he was the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Buffalo.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Camden International Film Festival</span> Annual film festival in Camden, Maine

The Camden International Film Festival, stylized as CIFF, is an annual documentary film festival based in Camden, Rockport, and Rockland, Maine, in the United States that takes place mid-September.

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is the world's largest Indigenous film and media arts festival, held annually in Toronto. The festival focuses on the film, video, radio, and new media work of Indigenous, Aboriginal and First Peoples from around the world. The festival includes screenings, parties, panel discussions, and cultural events.

Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis are a Canadian animation duo. On January 24, 2012, they received their second Oscar nomination, for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short film, Wild Life (2011). With their latest film, The Flying Sailor, they received several nominations and awards, including for the Best Canadian Film at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, and on January 24, 2023, they received a nomination for the 95th Academy Awards under the category Best Animated Short Film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cheryl Foggo</span> Canadian journalist

Cheryl Dawn Foggo is a Canadian author, documentary film director, screenwriter and playwright.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Benjamin Ross Hayden</span> Canadian film director, writer, producer, and actor

Benjamin Ross Hayden is a Métis Canadian film director, writer, producer, and actor. His debut feature film, The Northlander, was the first ever Telefilm Canada micro-budget selected for Perspective Canada program at the Cannes Film Festival, and premiered at the 40th Montreal World Film Festival in 2016. The film received a wide theatrical release in Canada during fall 2016. He is also the youngest film director in Canada to be accepted into the Telefilm micro-budget program, and from that is the only film director to ever to receive a theatrical release in Landmark Cinemas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thao Lam</span> Vietnamese-Canadian childrens author and illustrator

Thao Lam is a Vietnamese-Canadian children's author and illustrator. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Jasmine Road is a Canadian drama film, directed by Warren Sulatycky and released in 2020. The film stars Greg Ellwand as Mac Bagley, a rancher in rural southern Alberta who has been emotionally closed off since the death of his wife; after his schoolteacher daughter Loretta learns that her student Heba, a Syrian refugee who came to Canada with her mother Layla and uncle Salem, needs to find a new place to live, she invites the family to stay at the ranch, with Mac's initial resistance to the idea giving way to acceptance and a new lease on life as he gets to know them.

Francheska: Prairie Queen is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Laura O'Grady and released in 2022. The film is a portrait of Francis Yutrago, a gay immigrant to Canada from the Philippines who performs as a drag queen under the name Francheska Dynamites in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Berkley Brady is a Canadian filmmaker. She is known for writing and directing the 2022 horror film Dark Nature.

The 2023 edition of the Calgary International Film Festival, the 24th edition in the event's history, took place from September 21 to October 1, 2023 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Jen Markowitz is a Canadian film and television director and producer, whose feature documentary film debut Summer Qamp was released in 2023.

References

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.