What’s with that Treaty?: We’koqma’q First Nation, Nova Scotia
13 min. 2016 There is an agreement from the province of Nova to bring Treaty Education to all schools in the province. In this video students document a week of special activities taking place in the school for Treaty Day. Treaty Day honours the nation-to-nation relationship formed between Indigenous nations and the Canadian government, as…
Cross Cultural Conversations
Forum, Screenings, Talks Cross Cultural Conversations brings Saskatchewan filmmakers Janine Windolph and Trudy Stewart to Nova Scotia to engage with Nova Scotia film and theatre artists, students and Indigenous communities to explore themes of reconciliation and how we can de-colonize our approach to sharing stories. Through discussion, artist presentations, screenings and interactive Forum Theatre, the…
The Water’s Tale: Revisioned
multi-screen projection 2014 – 2015 Twenty years ago I began a six-year process of making a non-linear experimental narrative video called The Water’s Tale, an experimental feminist fairy tale. To mark the 20-year anniversary, I revisited the imagery and created a multi-screen video project piece. Haunting imagery of a woman submerged in the ocean, holding…
Annapolis Valley Gender & Sexuality Project
2015 AVGSAP is an on-line resource to support Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Trans Gendered, Trans Sexual, Queer, Questioning, 2-Spirited and Allies Youth (LGBTTQQ2SA) as well as educators and community partners. Students from across the region created a series of videos through a collaborative workshop process with theatre and media artists. A partnership with partnering with the Annapolis Valley…
Stroll
Nova Scotia 2013 21 min. 2013 written and produced by Tara Lee Reddick & Ann Verrall directed by Ann Verrall Lauren has been working in the sex trade in Toronto. She suddenly returns to her small rural African Nova Scotian community after a five-year absence. Not even the funeral of her beloved grandmother had brought her…
Les voix de Clare résonnent: Clare, NS
2014 A collaborative multi-media installation project that explores the evolving rural Acadian identity in the Clare region. Les voix de Clare résonnent is a multi-media installation project created by L’Acadie art exchange collective (Sheila LeBlanc, Ariella Pahlke, Ann Verrall) artists from Clare, Terence Bay and Halifax in collaboration with three generations of community members from…
We Call it Wikuom: Annapolis Valley First Nation, Nova Scotia
2014 Written and Directed by the youth participants Project Director: Ann Verrall Mentors: Tara Lee Reddick, Luckas Cardona, dancer Josee Bourgeois and Music group: Shoulder 2 Shoulder This inspiring video was created through the Annapolis Valley Summer Video Camp held at the Annapolis Valley First Nation and Central Kings School, Cambridge Station Nova Scotia. Through…