With new skills, imagination, and creativity, we explore what is possible

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Tantoo Cardinal’s Tap Root Actors Academy is an acting and filmmaking academy for Indigenous youth based in Kikino Métis Settlement, Alberta

 
Today we kicked off day 1/2 of our April workshops! We had our acting coach and mentor, Jillian Dion, out with us teaching us some more acting skills! 🎭 Our focus today was building confidence, creativity and teamwork skills. Our youth worked on so
It was our Group A’s turn for this weekends workshop! 🤗 They got their hands on gear and equipment for the cinematography workshop with Brock! For the acting portion, they focused on character development and text analysis with Jillian! It
Today we had our second workshop of 2024. Our Group B’s were joined by our director of photography, Brock Mitchell, & our acting coach & mentor, Jillian Dion. We had a split day of two workshops: cinematography with Brock & acting

We enable students to discover the gems in Indigenous inheritance and to explore artistry in acting and filmmaking. These experiences are intended to fill the heart and soul, to strengthen community, and to expose students to hands-on filmmaking.

 

We explore our histories through family and friends; utilizing their skills and languages as storytellers, musicians, and carpenters

We give our artists the experience of telling their own stories, as well as experience being part of someone else’s

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