Los Angeles Festival Premiere

ANIMATION | Canada | 8 MINUTES | English

I am the Warrior

A Residential School Story. A mother and daughter Fox have a poor relationship. The daughter wants to right the wrongs the residential schools have committed to make her mother this way. She becomes the Warrior in her thoughts to save the young version of her mother, only to find her mother is the true Warrior after surviving Residential School.

CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Tara Audibert

Tara Audibert is a multidisciplinary artist & film maker with 20+yrs experience in animation, comics and fine art. She combines Traditional First Nations Art and Storytelling with contemporary design and digital mediums.

Award-winning works include animated short film The Importance of Dreaming (2017), comics This Place: 150 Years Retold (2019), and Lost Innocence (2011) which has been placed in the Archives of Canada, Nitap: Legends of the First Nations, a storytelling app and creator of Lil Glooscap and the Legends of Turtle Island (2022) animated TV show. Books JoJo Makoons (2021), Fiddleheads for Fox (2019), Moonbeam (2020). She is of hybrid Wolastoqey-French heritage residing in Sunny Corner, NB.

Director

Tara Audibert

Producer

Tara Audibert

Screenwriter

Tara Audibert

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