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August 2008
 Mary
Code (Sayisi Dene) is a filmmaker from Whitehorse,
Yukon, with a special interest in the preservation of Native culture,
language, and stories. She has worked on a CBC radio show broadcast
in Dene and has recently been recording traditional stories in
the language with her husband Allan Code. In 1990 the Codes produced
and directed their first film, Nuhoniyeh: Our Story, a
history of the Sayisi Dene people, that won the Gemini Award for
excellence in television programming. Code's 2007 work Aydaygooay
is an animated retelling of a Sayisi Dene myth first told to the
filmmaker by her father.
Screened by NMAI
- Aydaygooay
(2007) director
- Nuhoniyeh: Our Story (1992) director
Image credit:
Mary Code - photograph by Allan Code
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