World premiere on September 18th 2020 at FCVQ (Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec)
Prix Gémeaux: Best documentary film or series, Best directing, Best sound & Best original music in 2021
FCVQ : Collegial prize (ex aequo) & Special mention - Grand Prix Competition - Feature film 2020
VIFF : Best Canadian Documentary 2020
CIFF : Best Canadian Documentary & People’s Choice 2020
Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival - People's Choice 2020
Cinémania : Prix Visages de la francophonie TV5 2021
PCCQ : Collegial prize of Cinéma québécois 2021.
Call Me Human
“Sauvage,” says Joséphine Bacon, “means to be wholly free.”
When elders leave us, a link to the past vanishes along with them. Innu writer Joséphine Bacon exemplifies a generation that is bearing witness to a time that will soon have passed away. With charm and diplomacy, she leads a charge against the loss of a language, a culture, and its traditions. On the trail of Papakassik, the master of the caribou, Call Me Human proposes a foray into a people's multimillennial history, in company with a woman of great spirit who has devoted her life to passing on her knowledge and that of her ancestors. In her language, Innu means “human.”
Scriptwriter Kim Obomsawin
Director Kim Obomsawin
Director of photography Hugo Gendron, Michel Valiquette
Sound recordist Lynne Trépanier
Editor Alexandre Lachance
Animator Meky Ottawa
Sound design Luc Raymond
Original music Alain Auger
Sound mixing Jean-Philippe Goyette
Executive producer Josée Rock, Florent Vollant, Alexandre Bacon, Ian Boyd, Feu Réginald Vollant
Producer Andrée-Anne Frenette
Year 2020