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Red Snow

Directed by Marie Clements
Canada, 2019 (fiction, 100 minutes, colour, English / Gwich'in / Inuvialuktun / Pashto)

Film Description:
"Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, is caught in an ambush in Kandahar, Afghanistan. His capture and interrogation by a Taliban Commander releases a cache of memories connected to the love and death of his Inuit cousin, Asana, and binds him closer to a Pashtun family as they escape across treacherous landscapes and through a blizzard that becomes their key to survival. Filmed on location in Canada's Northwest Territories and the desert interior region of British Columbia (the Ashcroft Band Lands, and Kamloops), Red Snow paints a reflection of self that is distinct, breathtaking, and uniquely beautiful, forming a shared language of the people and the land. Reflected in the sky, in snow that can be dust, in a land that can be desert or tundra, a ski-doo or motorcycle, a face concealed or revealed, extreme cold or extreme heat, Red Snow heeds our ever-aching call to belong."
-- redsnow.ca (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Marie Clements
Produced by: Marie Clements, Lael McCall, Michelle Morris, Jonathan Tammuz, Carol Whiteman, Giuliana Bertuzzi, Pablo Saravanja, Jay Bulckaert
Principal Cast: Tantoo Cardinal, Tarun Keram, Samuel Marty, Michelle Thrush, Link Baker, Asivak Koostachin, Steven Cree Molison, Shafin Karim, Mozhdah Jamalzadah, Kane Mahon, Elias Mehdawi, Miika Bryce Whiskeyjack, Anousha Alamian, Ishaan Vasdev, Reneltta Arluk, Koen Meserah-Zdyb, Leela Gilday, Sadetlo Scott
Cinematography: Roger Vernon, Robert Aschmann
Film Editing: Darryl Whetung, Rafi Spivak, Jamie Alain
Music: Wayne Lavallee
Production Company: Marie Clements Media, Principia Productions, Lily Pictures
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"The idea [for Red Snow] came to [Marie] Clements while she was looking at photo essay about Afghanistan and realized that the people didn't look dissimilar to Indigenous people in Canada. This experience grew into a story about a young Gwich'in soldier named Dylan (Asivak Koostachin) who is forced to confront his difficult past after he is captured by the Taliban while on tour in Afghanistan."
-- Dorothy Woodend (source)

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