Ervin Chartrand

Ervin Chartrand
Born
Winnipegosis, Manitoba, Canada
NationalityPine Creek First Nation, Canadian
EducationUniversity of Winnipeg (Bachelor of Arts, 2017)
Notable work504938C (2005)
First Stories: Patrick Ross (2006)
Awards2005 Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival - New Talent Award,
2006 Yorkton Film Festival, Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal,
2006 ReelWorld Film Festival, ReelWorld Award - Outstanding Canadian Short Film

Ervin Chartrand is a Canadian and Pine Creek First Nation director, writer and producer.[1] He is best known for directing the films 504938C (2005) and First Stories: Patrick Ross (2006).[1]

Personal life

Ervin Chartrand is a Métis/Ojibwe[2] from Pine Creek First Nation[3] Camperville, Manitoba, Canada.[1]

Chartrand earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in film studies[1] from the University of Winnipeg in 2017.[4]

Career

Chartrand first began his career in film in 2003, after enrolling in Winnipeg's Aboriginal Broadcast Training Initiative,[5] sponsored by the Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre.[1] He worked as a camera assistant on the APTN TV series The Sharing Circle and the Canadian TV series Tipi Tales as a puppet wrangler.[1][5] Chartrand studied acting with the Academy of Broadcasting Corporation in Winnipeg.[1]

In 2005, Chartrand received the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, Best New Talent award for the film 504938C (2005).[1] 50938C was created with the support of the Winnipeg Film Group's First Film program.[6] In 2006, he won the Reelworld Film Festival, Reel World Award for Outstanding Canadian Short Film for Patrick Ross (2006).[7] He was invited to direct this short film by the National Film Board of Canada for the movie series First Stories, the Manitoba (Volume I).[8] Patrick Ross also won the 2006 Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal.[8] If this Was Right (2008), a film with rap artist and CBC host Wab Kinew and directed by Chartrand, was nominated for the 2008 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award, Best Music Video.[1] Chartrand was the winner of the Canwest Mentorship Program at the 2010 imagineNATIVE film + Media Arts Festival.[9] In 2017, Other Side of The 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story was nominated for the Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Documentary History & Biography.[10]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes Reference
2005 504938C Director/Producer/Writer Winnipeg Film Group's First Film program short film [11]
2006 First Stories - Patrick Ross Director/Writer NFB Prairie Centre: First Stories a competitive documentary production program. [12]
2007 Sister Director APTN’s Short Cuts program [11][13]
2008 If this Was Right Director Music video with rap artist and CBC host Wab Kinew [14]
2011 Life From 95 Director/Writer/Producer Short film [11]
2012 Fight Director/Writer NFB Short film [15][12]
2014 Lifer Director/Writer Short film [1]
2014 Trafficking Director/Writer Short film [1][16]
2015 Illusion Delusion Director/Writer Short film [16]
2016 Other Side of 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story Director/Writer TV movie [10][17]

Further reading

  • Friesen (2016) "Tackling the Gangs 1998-2000" in The Ballad of Danny6 Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw. Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Pg. 133.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "About Ervin Chartrand". National Screen Institute. 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  2. ^ Fortney, Valerie (19 March 2017). "Former gang member says growing trend a wakeup call for all". Winnipeg Sun. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. ^ Fortney, Valerie (16 Mar 2017). "Education best tool to fight gangs: ex-member". Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Calgary Herald. p. 2. Retrieved 30 April 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "SPRING 2017 CONVOCATION" (PDF). University of Winnipeg. p. 15. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  5. ^ a b "The Sixth Annual REELWORLD Film Festival" (PDF). ReelWorld. Toronto, Ontario. 2006. p. 94. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  6. ^ Crowe, Kathleen Buddle (2006). "Bullets for B-Roll: Shooting Native Films and Street Gangs in Western Canadian Cities (From Big House to Home)". University of Manitoba. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  7. ^ Buddle, Kathleen (2011). "Urban Aboriginal Gangs and Street Sociality in the Canadian West". In Howard, Heather A.; Proulx, Craig (eds.). Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-55458-260-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  8. ^ a b "Our Collection: First Stories - Patrick Ross". National Film Board of Canada. 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Award Winners: 2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival". Media Indigena: interactive indigenous insight. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  10. ^ a b "2017 Winners & Nominees". Yorkton Film Festival. 2017. Archived from the original on 8 November 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  11. ^ a b c "Indigenous Filmmakers Distribution Catalogue" (PDF). Winniped Film Group. 2014. p. 12. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  12. ^ a b "Ervin Chartrand". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  13. ^ Knopf (2008). "Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence against Aboriginal Women as Represented in Canadian Films". In Knopf, Kerstin (ed.). Aboriginal Canada Revisited. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: University of Ottawa Press. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-7766-0679-8.
  14. ^ "Wab Kinew releases music video". Indigenous Music. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  15. ^ "Our Collection: Fight". National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  16. ^ a b "Ervin Chartrand Bio". IMDB. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  17. ^ "Other Side of the 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story". CBC News. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2020.