Wayne Wapeemukwa

Wayne Wapeemukwa is a Canadian film director and screenwriter of Métis descent from Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] He is most noted for his feature film debut Luk'Luk'I (2017), which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival[2] and the Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award.[3]

Wayne Wapeemukwa
Born
Vancouver, British Columbia
Occupation(s)teacher, filmmaker
Known forLuk'Luk'I (Feature film)

Education and filmmaking

Wapeemukwa participated in his high-school film program and has been influenced and inspired, since childhood, by Chelsea McMullan.[3] He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree and is pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophy and psychoanalysis at the New School for Social Research.[4]

Wapemukwa also works as a public-school teacher and research assistant.[3]

Angel Gates is Wapeemukwa's muse, having first consulted on research for his short films and later starring, and being featured, in four of his documentary films.[5]

Filmography
  • Limp Clown - 2010
  • Blood Job - 2010
  • Street Spirit - 2011
  • Spiritualized - 2011
  • Foreclosure - 2013[6]
  • Weeper: Father - 2014
  • Luk'Luk'I: Mother - 2014
  • Balmoral Hotel - 2015[6]
  • Srorrim - 2016[6]
  • Luk'Luk'I - 2017[6]

Awards

References
  1. "The Façade of Settler Patriotism: Wayne Wapeemukwa Talks Luk’Luk’I". Point of View, September 7, 2017.
  2. "Toronto: 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' Captures Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 17, 2017.
  3. "Luk'Luk'I among winners at Directors Guild of Canada Awards". CBC News. October 29, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
  4. "Wayne Wapeemukwa". Cinema Politica. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  5. Alarcon, Krystle (January 25, 2018). "From the Streets to Film, With Her Heart in the Downtown Eastside". The Tyee. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  6. "TFS Festival Quickie: Wayne Wapeemukwa, Director of Luk’Luk’I: Mother". Toronto Film Scene, September 8, 2014.
  7. "Films from Rozema, Maddin, Falardeau make Canada's Top Ten Film Festival". Canadian Press, December 8, 2015.
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