“Through acts of reclamation and collaboration we are telling our own stories, in
our own voice, lifting up and empowering the future of Indigenous storytelling in
film.” So reads the mission statement of Amanda Strong’s production company, Spotted
Fawn Productions. A filmmaker of Cree/Métis and European ancestry, Strong gives vital
expression to Indigenous oral traditions in artful “hybrid docs” like Four Faces of
the Moon. When Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin was given the 2016 Clyde Gilmour
Technicolor Award by the Toronto Film Critics Association, she bequeathed the cash
prize to Strong, acknowledging the young artist’s important contribution to contemporary
Indigenous cinema. Strong’s use of stop-motion puppetry has drawn comparisons to the
work of Tim Burton.
NFB. “Amanda Strong,” n.d. https://www.nfb.ca/directors/amanda-strong/.