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January 2005
 Darlene
Naponse (Ojibwe) is a filmmaker and poet from Whitefish
Lake First Nation in Ontario. Her company Pine Needle Blankets
Productions has won the 2004 First Nations Business Award, given
by Northern Ontario Business. Naponse sees filmmaking as a way
to generate jobs in her community. The majority of the cast and
crew of her feature film Cradlesong were Ojibwe residents
of Whitefish Lake First Nation. Her films have screened at the
Sundance Film Festival and have been broadcast in Canada on Aboriginal
People's Television Network and Women's Television Network. Naponse
was certified in multi-media design and production by Humber College
in Toronto and received a BA from Laurentian University in Sudbury,
Ontario.
"My work relates to my daily existence. What I write and
make films about is what breathes and lives beside me. My commitment
is to create images, sounds, textures, and movement of First Nations
people as they are, creating poetic descriptions and visceral
passages. Mother Earth is always a character in every piece I
create."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Darlene
Naponse - courtesy of the filmmaker
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