Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2006
Logline
At the beginning of the century a number of Mohawk ironworkers and their families moved to Brooklyn and created a thriving community. This is the story of one girl’s Mohawk grandmother and the parallels she draws between both of their lives.
Reaghan Tarbell
Director
Reaghan Tarbell is from the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve just outside of Montreal, Quebec. She has co-directed and co-written, along with Paul Rickard, two episodes of the TV series Finding Our Talk: A Journey into Aboriginal Languages. Reaghan also worked as a researcher on Aboriginal Architecture: Living Architecture which was recently broadcast on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). In 2005 she received a Canada Council for the Arts Aboriginal Media Arts Grant for research and development of an hour long documentary Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back. For the past year and a half she has been working as a Program Assistant at the Film and Video Center of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
Paul Rickard
Producer
Paul M. Rickard is an Omuskego Cree from Moose Factory in Northern Ontario. For the past ten years, he has been working as a producer, director and cameraman in collaboration with independent production companies and organizations such as Nutaaq Media Inc. Wildheart Productions, Wawatay, CBC North and the
National Film Board of Canada. He is president of Mushkeg Media a production company specializing in films and videos about the Native experience. In 1996, he wrote, shot and directed his first film, entitled Ayouwin: A Way of Life. This documentary about Rickard's father, a trapper in Moose Factory, Ontario, was produced by Wildheart Productions for broadcast on the TV Ontario Aboriginal series. In 1997, he directed Okimah at the National Film Board. This film focuses on the knowledge handed down by Cree hunting leaders, the okimah, and stresses the importance of the annual goose hunt to the survival of traditional Cree culture. Released in 35 mm, it premiered at the Vancouver Film Festival in 1998. In 1999, he directed and co-produced Finding My Talk, a pilot for the 13 part series; Finding Our Talk, on the Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN), which has since gone into its second season. Paul is currently in development of a feature length film script entitled Sideways North.