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January
2005
 Filmmaker
Gil Cardinal (Métis)
has directed over thirty documentaries and television dramas with
Native themes. In 2004 he joined the programming committee of
the National Film Board's Aboriginal Filmmaking Program, which
allocates over one million dollars of annual funding towards the
production of works by indigenous Canadian filmmakers. His documentary
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole won the Alanis
Obomsawin Best Documentary Award in 2003 at the ImagineNATIVE
Film Festival in Toronto. It has screened at many other festivals,
including the Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 and
the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, DC in 2004. Cardinal's
awards include Best Story/Script at the 1998 American Indian Film
Festival (Big Bear); Best of the Festival at the 1997 Dreamspeakers
Festival (David with F.A.S.); Best of the Festival at the
1994 Alberta Film Awards (Our Home and Native Land); Best
Direction, Information or Documentary Program or Series at the
1988 Gemini Awards (Foster Child). Cardinal directed his
first films for ACCESS, an Edmonton television station that focuses
on educational programming, where he worked his way up from cameraman.
He lives and writes in Edmonton, Alberta.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Gil
Cardinal with crew - image courtesy of the National Film Board
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