One Day left of DOXA! June 18-26: Tickets | Feedback Form
See Healing Inner Voices at DOXA until June 18 – 26!!
Have you seen Healing Inner Voices? Joined our Talking Circle today? We’d love your feedback. And if you have not seen it, you have until midnight Friday. Click for Tix! Tickets |Feedback Form
Talking Circle on Thursday June 25 – Martin, Flo, Val, Aaron and Rylan, hosted by Darren Ho of the CBRC for an online discussion about HIV/AIDS, stigma, and the making of Healing Inner Voices.
“I want to share our truths, our realities, our struggles, but also our accomplishments, our strengths, our resilience, our hopes and dreams, and the compassion we’ve had for ourselves. I want to take this film to the heart of communities to show what HIV has taught us, how we’ve empowered ourselves, our resilience, our healing journeys, our teachers. Let’s show them a way out of the darkness. Let’s show them how we are still Healing Our Inner Voices.”
~ Martin Morberg, producer, project creator
Through the lived experiences and voices of eight Indigenous people living with HIV, this poetic short documentary combines storytelling and the healing power of Indigenous culture to reflect on the realities of stigma and discrimination for Indigenous people.
Offering inspiration and empathy, the film offers up hope that understanding and compassion will decrease experiences of HIV stigma and discrimination. Most importantly, it will be a way to connect those who made it and those who will watch it, to community, and to culture.
DOXA! June 18-26; Talking Circle Held on June 25, 2020:
Panelist Bios:
Martin Morberg, Indigenous HIV Activist, Healing Inner Voices Project Creator
Martin is a 2 Spirit Northern Tutchone/Tlingit man. It is his goal to empower the voices of 2 Spirit and Indigenous people and those affected by HIV/AIDS.
Flo Ranville, Community Engagement Associate, Qualitative Interviewer, Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity
Flo is Woodlands Cree, Lakota, French and Scottish. She enjoys working in community-based research with the HIV community to help her peers be a part of the solution in the fight against stigma and HIV.
Val Nicholson, Peer Navigator – AIDS Vancouver, Researcher – BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Val is Mi’kmaq, Haida, Gypsy and UK Islander descent. Val is a mother of 4 boys, and a grandmother to 1 grand daughter and 4 grandsons.
Aaron Jackson, HIV and Harm Reduction Activist
Aaron is from the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation in North Vancouver. Aaron is passionate about peer-led initiatives and working with Indigenous people affected by HIV/AIDS and addictions.
DOXA! June 18-26: Tickets | Talking Circle
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DOXA: Committed, more than ever, to cultivating curiosity and critical thought, DOXA 2020 delivers some of the very best in contemporary documentary cinema over eight days. DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs June 18-26, 2020, offering an exceptional selection of films, filmmaker Q+A’s and live streaming events. Films will be available to stream for the duration of the above festival dates. Films are geo-blocked to British Columbia and virtual tickets will be limited. Select screenings will include pre-recorded filmmaker Q+As and extended discussions. We’re part of the BC Voices Shorts Program: Get TIX!
Credits
A Drawing Wisdom Production
Created & Produced by Martin Morberg, Northern Tutchone/Tlingit
Directed by Jada-Gabrielle Pape, Saanich & Snuneymuxw Nations
In collaboration with
Lulu Gurney
PRA / Interviewer Outreach Worker
Nisga’a Nation
Ron Horsefall
Mashkiki-waabika-inini
(Medicine Circle of Stones Man)
Pasqua First Nation, Saskatchewan
Tyler-Alan Jacobs
Sxela’pchtn (chief of chiefs)AJ Low Horn
Siksika Nation
Valerie Nicholson
The one the eagles watch over
Mi’kmaq
Flo Ranville
Sioux Lakota/Woodlands Cree
French/Scottish
Aaron Jackson
Indigenous Peer Navigator – (RAAC) Rapid Access Addiction Clinic, St Paul’s Hospital
Tsleil-Waututh Nation
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This project is dedicated to those who suffer in silence
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Created and Produced by
Martin Morberg
Directed by
Jada-Gabrielle Pape, Saanich and Snuneymuxw Nations
Director of Photography
D’Arcy Hamilton
Edited by
Katherine Dodds
D’Arcy Hamilton
Location sound recording by
Devon Cooke
Production Manager
Rylan Friday
Culture Saves Lives Sound Recording by
Dan Ponich, Park Sound Studio
Sound Mix by
John Sawa, Sawa Sound
Featuring
Culture Saves Lives
Robert Williams Jr. “Lalakenis”
Patrick Smith “4 Bears”
Cody Hunt
Rory Dawson
Marnie Scow
Songs performed by Culture Saves Lives
Used with permission from the song owners
Yelukwala, Robert Williams
Hamatsa Nakaxala, Chief Robert Williams Sr.
Tłilkwała, Chief William Peters
Amlala, Musgamawk Kwickwasutaineuk, Gilford Island BC
Tree of life song, Robert Williams & Chief Robert Williams Sr.
Special thank you to Gabriel George
For granting us permission for the use of his original songs
From the Album “Cry of The Wolf”
Nature
Eagle
Sla Hal
Big George
Salish Anthem
All Traditional Songs Performed by Gabriel George
Salish Anthem Performed by Gabriel George and Leonard George
© Gabriel George 2009
All songs used with the permission of Gabriel George
And dedicated to his brother Isaac George who died of AIDS related illness in 2006
“He taught people how to dance, and shine and love. Then he journeyed to be with all the grandmothers and grandfathers. He is a wolf. This is his cry.”
Original Compositions by Matthew Cardinal
Feb 21st
May 7th
My Own
Special Thanks to
Glida Morgan
Darren Ho
Jody Jollimore
Matthew Halse
Craig Dales-Furlani
Elena Kanigan
Native Education College
David Ng
Gavin Hamilton
Leena Minifie
Rachelle George
Mathew Fischer
Vanessa Kroeker
Brackendale Art Gallery
Urban Native Youth Association
Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre
Vancouver Native Health Society
Produced with Support from
Vancouver Island Persons Living with HIV/AIDS Society (VPWAS)
Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC)
Youth Co HIV & Hep C Society
Drawing Wisdom
Hello Cool World
With Funding from
ViiV Healthcare
FNHA
PHSA
Filmed on location in the unceded Traditional Lands and Waters of the əsəlil̓wətaʔɬ, Xʷməθkwəy̓əm, & Sḵwx̱wú7meshsi Nations and all their ancestors
