Bretten Hannam

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Bretten Hannam is a Canadian screenwriter and film director.[1] They are most noted for their 2015 feature film debut North Mountain, which premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2015 before going into limited commercial release in 2018.[2]

A Two-Spirit, non-binary Mi'kmaq person, Hannam was born and raised in Nova Scotia.[1] Educated at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Dalhousie University, they made a number of short films prior to North Mountain; the most noted of these, , premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2011[3] and was included in the short film compilation Boys on Film 9: Youth in Trouble.[4]

In 2018, they participated in Now and Then, an exhibition of works by LGBTQ artists in conjunction with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.[5] Their contribution was the short film Elmiteskuatl, an interrogation of the complex relationship between First Nations peoples and colonialist conceptions of archives and museums.[5]

Their most recent short film, Wildfire, was produced with the assistance of the Whistler Film Festival's Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship,[6] and premiered at BFI Flare in 2019. A feature film expansion of Wildfire, titled Wildhood, was funded by Telefilm Canada in June 2019,[7] and is slated to premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.[8]

In 2020, Hannam received a grant from the Inside Out Film and Video Festival's Re:Focus Emergency Relief Fund for the completion of a short documentary film titled Walqwin, about two-spirit culture in the Wabanaki Confederacy.[9]

Filmography[]

  • New Skin (2008)
  • Puppy (2010)
  • Deep End (2011)
  • North Mountain (2015)
  • Elmiteskuatl (2018)
  • Wildfire (2019)
  • Wildhood (2021)

References[]

  1. ^ a b Jordan Parker, "Two-Spirit filmmaker puts queer representation first in films". Halifax Today, June 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Rhiannon Johnson, "Two-spirit thriller North Mountain to have theatrical premiere in Toronto". CBC News Indigenous, June 29, 2018.
  3. ^ "Dal filmmakers take to the big screen". Dalhousie Gazette, September 6, 2011.
  4. ^ "BOYS ON FILM 9: Youth in Trouble – DVD Review". Front Row Reviews, May 1, 2013.
  5. ^ a b Peter Knegt, "What is queer identity in 2018? These artists are looking to the past to understand the present". CBC Arts, March 21, 2018.
  6. ^ Regan Reid, "Whistler ’17: Feature Project, Doc, Screenwriter Lab finalists named". Playback, October 26, 2017.
  7. ^ Jeremy Kay, "Telefilm Canada unveils eight indigenous filmmakers to receive backing". Screen Daily, June 27, 2019.
  8. ^ Rebecca Rubin, "Toronto Film Festival Unveils Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery Lineup ". Variety, July 28, 2021.
  9. ^ Dino-Ray Ramos, "Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival Unveils Recipients For Re:Focus Emergency Relief Fund". Deadline Hollywood, July 9, 2020.

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