Bihttoš (Rebel) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and released in 2014."Vancouver filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers' emotional memoir screens at the Reel 2 Real Film Fest". The Georgia Straight, April 6, 2016. Blending live action and animation, the film depicts the relationship between her Sami father, Bjarne Store-Jakobsen, and her Blackfoot mother, Esther Tailfeathers, focusing in particular on the way her father's childhood experiences in Norway's residential school system contributed to their breakup.
The film premiered at the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in 2014, and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's Canada's Top Ten. It was shortlisted for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards."2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada, January 19, 2016.
References
Further reading
MacKenzie, Scott and Anna Westerståhl Stenport. 2016. “Contemporary experimental feminist Sámi documentary: the first person politics of Liselotte Wajstedt and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 6 (2): 169–82
External links
Rebel at Violator Films