Chaakapesh
A FILM BY ROGER FRAPPIER & JUSTIN KINGSLEY
Documentary – Quebec – 2019 – 126 min
Color | French, English, Cree, Inuktitut | 16:9 | 5.1
SYNOPSIS
An orchestra and its famous conductor go on tour in the great northern tundra of Quebec to visit the Cree, Innu and Inuit communities and share with them an Aboriginal chamber opera where white people are taught to laugh, and by the same token to love more. Chaakapesh, The Rogue’s Journey – written by Tomson Highway, composed by Matthew Ricketts and performed by l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal under the direction of Kent Nagano – is the most powerful and modern example of intercultural collaboration.
CREW
DIRECTORS : Roger Frappier, Justin Kingsley
SCREENPLAY : Roger Frappier, Justin Kingsley
PRODUCTION : Roger Frappier (Max Films)
CINEMATOGRAPHY : Mario Janelle
SOUND DESIGN : Sylvain Brassard
EDITING : René Roberge
SCORE : Chaakapesh de Matthew Ricketts
BIOGRAPHY
With a career spanning over fifty films and forty years, Roger Frappier belongs to the elite of Canadian film producers. He’s also the only Canadian producer to have won three Golden Reel
Awards for the biggest box-office gross of the year, and four Genies for Best Canadian Film. Two of his films have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, one of which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Since starting to produce at the National Film Board of Canada in the 1970s, Frappier has worked with most of Québec’s best-known directors and discovered the talent of numerous young filmmakers. He has contributed to the creation of a major cinematographic body of work.
Justin Kingsley finds the best way of telling the right stories – as an author, strategist, director and photographer. He founded creative storytelling workshop Makumaku. He has written two
No.1 National Bestselling books – The Way of the Fight (New York Times Bestseller) a look at Georges St-Pierre’s life philosophy, and Weology: How Everybody Wins When We Comes
Before Me, a book of ideas on leadership. With his third book, Justin joined an elite group of authors to publish original works in multiple languages with Le livre du don.