Two Winters: Tales From Above the Earth
(2004, 27 min.) CANADA
Director: Carol Geddes (Tlingit)
Produced in association with: Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
Actors: Arlene Bowman, Stella Martin, Warren Michael
In Tutchone with English subtitles.

Inspired by the stories of Yukon elders, a rotoscope animation tells of a family’s struggle to survive an ecological disaster, an extended period of winter that resulted from the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1816.

Image credits: Carol Geddes - courtesy of the filmmaker