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  • A moving portrait of actress Tantoo Cardinal, travelling through time and across the many roles she's played, capturing her strength and her impact—and how.
  • Quebec-based Innu singer-songwriter Florent Vollant, who has worked extensively with Indigenous musicians, is also among the lifetime artistic.
  • Documentary Series - Telling Our Story is part of a transmedia project whose mission is to give a voice to the First Peoples of Quebec.

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    Indigenous Governor General's arts award winners reflect on pipeline protests

    First Nations star Tantoo Cardinal has a theory that she likes to hold onto in crucial times: That someone with a good heart and strong mind will "stand up" or "swing by" at just the right moment to offer support and keep the light on.

    "That's my hope, because sometimes that's all we've got to go on," said the prolific performer who was born in Fort McMurray, Alta., and stars in the series "Stumptown."

    "There's just this moment that pops out in the air and lands in front of you and lets you keep going on, that invites you to keep going on."

    On Thursday, that moment was the announcement that Cardinal — along with stars Ryan Reynolds and Catherine O'Hara, among others — is getting a Governor General's Performing Arts Award.

    While Cardinal's career is thriving, the award comes at a time of tension between Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and federal and provincial leaders

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    Telling Our Story

    Director:Kim O’Bomsawin

    Producer:Francine Allaire

    Line producers:Ian Boyd, Réginald Vollant

    Research and visual archives:Nancy Marcotte

    Field research:Ivanie Aubin-Malo, Eruoma Awashish, Alexandre Bacon, Janie Bellefleur-Kaltush, Réal Junior Leblanc, Brad Gros-Louis, Maurice J. Kistabish, Karine Lanoie-Brien, Caruso-Moro, Ossie Michelin Mathieu O'Bomsawin, Eric P. Thisdale

    Scriptwriters:Geneviève Albert, Alexandre Bacon, Mathieu Fournier, Guillaume Lonergan, Angie-Pepper O'Bomsawin, Kim O'Bomsawin

    Direction of photography:Hugo Gendron

    1st camera assistant:Louis-Philippe Michaud

    Sound:Lynne Trepanier, Luc Raymond, Bernard Gariépy Strobl

    Editor:Alexandre Lachance, Mélanie O'Bomsawin

    Illustrations:Eruoma Awashish, Pasa Mangiok (Prim), Saige Nalakwsis Mukash, Kaienteri McGregor

    Direction of animation and graphic design:Étienne Deslières

    Graphic design:Sébastien Aubin

    Narration:Marie-Andrée Gill

    Original music:Studio Makusham, beneath the supervision of Flo

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