Film
The Words We Can’t Speak By Lindsay McIntyre
Actor Table Read Workshop
The Words We Can’t Speak is a screenplay in progress by writer and filmmaker Lindsay McIntyre. Festival audiences are invited to join for the last two hours of the workshop to listen to a final read through, followed by a Q&A with the writer.
The screenplay, based on the true story of the writer’s grandmother, is set in 1936 Nunavut, within the labour dynamics of the Hudson Bay Company, members of an Inuit community, and the RCMP. When a seasoned Inuk translator bravely amputates a Qallunaat (white) woman’s injured leg but fails to prevent her death, she becomes unwelcome in her community. In search of acceptance and a better life, she leaves the Arctic for the white man’s world on a dangerous 1800-mile journey by dog sled with her young daughter and an over-confident RCMP Constable, who fancies her for his wife. Unprepared for their journey together or their arrival, they encounter life-threatening difficulties and a serious clash of cultures.Professional actors will workshop the script, providing Lindsay with the opportunity to hear her words come to life.
Workshop: Wednesday, May 26
Reading and Q&A: Wednesday, May 26, 6:00-8:00PM
This event is presented in partnership with Women in Film and Television Vancouver’s Tricksters and Writers screenwriting program for Indigenous Women.
Lindsay McIntyre
is a filmmaker and artist of Inuit and settler Scottish descent. Recent projects include an animated documentary for Quamajuq, the Inuit Art Centre, Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut: We Are All Different (2021), a Telus Optik Local documentary Final Roll-Out: The Story of Film (2018) and a monumental projection-mapping installation on the Vancouver Art Gallery, If These Walls (2019). She was named the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award recipient for Excellence in Media Arts by the Canada Council (2013), was honoured with the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards (Hnatyshyn Foundation 2017), and her personal documentary Her Silent Life won Best Experimental Film at imagineNATIVE (2012). Often working with 16mm film using experimental, handmade and documentary techniques, her short films circle themes of portraiture, place, form and personal histories.
Ryan Cooper
is an Ojibwe, two spirited, LGBTQ Producer from Treaty One Territory Peguis First Nation, Ryan is a graduate of the National Screen Institute’s CBC New Indigenous Voices program, and The National Screen Institute’s Indigidocs program where he had the opportunity to producer an award-winning short documentary that went on to be programmed in festivals all around the globe. Ryan is also the creator of two web series, one titled Daybreak People that has aired on Bell MTS Fibe TV1 in 2019 and the ImagineNative/APTN pitch winning series iNdigiThreads. Ryan is producing two TELEFILM TALENT TO WATCH one of which is INdigiThreads and the other being Alter Boys. Alter Boys is also a part of the CFC Netflix series accelerator program. Ryan was also named as one of Playback’s Ten to Watch for 2021. Ryan is also a part of this year’s Banff World Media Festival & IPF producer Bursary with his project My Sassy Sasquatch. Ryan is focused on producing and writing contemporary, cultural & modern stories in an authentic way through scripted and factual storytelling.
Kevin Allan Hess
Nadia George
Kiley May
Chanin Payea
Danielle Riley
Michale Riley