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Dennis Jackson

Wapos Bay: There's No 'I' in Hockey
(2005, 24 min.) CANADA
Director: Dennis Jackson (Cree)
Producer: Melanie Jackson (Metis/Saulteaux)
Produced by: Wapos Bay Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada
In English and Cree with English subtitles.

A lesson in sharing and cooperation is learned when a visiting hockey team with a girl captain flies into the northern community of Wapos Bay for a tournament. This claymation is the award-wining pilot for a new series produced for Canada's Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

Image credits: Dennis Jackson - courtesy of the filmmaker

Dennis Jackson

Melanie Jackson

2006 Animation Celebration!, NYC

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