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February 2006
 Carol
Geddes (Tlingit) is a director from Teslin, Yukon.
She is presently writing and directing a six-part live-action
animation series on Tlingit people's interaction with Russians
in the 1800s. Her animation Two Winters: Tales from Above the
Earth swept the 2004 Nextfest Digital Motion Picture Festival,
winning the Best of Fest Award, along with awards for Best Convergence/Experimental,
Best Animation, and Best Post-Production Sound. To date the production
has won 11 awards. Geddes has directed many documentaries about
Aboriginal Canadians, including Picturing a People, which
had its US premiere in the 1997 Native American Film and Video
Festival and won the Best Story Award at the 1997 American Indian
Film Festival. She was a producer at Studio One, the Aboriginal
production unit of the National Film Board of Canada, when her
first major film Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (1988) won
a silver award for Educational Documentary at the San Francisco
Film Festival. She continued working with NFB to head Studio One
until it was closed in 1995. Geddes sits on the board of the Canadian
Conference of the Arts and the Women in Media Foundation. She
has participated in working groups of the Cultural Human Resources
Council, which builds capacity for arts employment in Canada,
and has served on the Yukon Heritage Resources Board. She was
educated at Concordia University and Carleton University.
Screened by NMAI
Image credits: Carol
Geddes - courtesy of the filmmaker
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