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"Little Thunder"Little Thunder
(2009, 3 min.) CANADA
Director: Nance Ackerman, Alan Syliboy (Mi’kmaq)
Produced by: the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with APTN. Vistas series.

In a visually complex animation inspired by the Mi'kmaq legend of the stone canoe, Little Thunder leaves his family to go on a canoe trip in hopes of becoming a man.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI; Little Thunder

Alan Syliboy
2011 Native American Film + Video Festival

2011 Animation Celebration!, NYC

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