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Ervin Chartrand is a Canadian Ojibway/Métis director, writer and producer. He is best known for directing the films 504938C (2005) and First Stories: Patrick Ross (2006).

Early life

Ervin Chartrand is an Ojibway/Métis from Pine Creek First Nation Camperville, Manitoba, Canada.

Career

Chartrand is an award-winning Ojibway/Métis filmmaker currently living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in film studies from the University of Manitoba in 2017.

Chartrand first began his career in film in 2003, after enrolling in Winnipeg's Aboriginal Broadcast Training Initiative, sponsored by the Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre. He worked as a camera assistant on the APTN TV Series The Sharing Circle and the Canadian TV series Tipi Tales as a puppet wrangler. Chartrand studied acting with the Academy of Broadcasting Corporation in Winnipeg.

In 2005, Chartrand received the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, Best New Talent award for the film 504938C (2005). 50938C was created with the support of the Winnipeg Film Group's First Film program. In 2006, he won the Reelworld Film Festival, Reel World Award for Outstanding Canadian Short Film for First Stories: Patrick Ross (2006). He was invited to direct this short film by the National Film Board of Canada for movie series First Stories, the Manitoba (Volume I). Patrick Ross also won the 2006 Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal. . If this Was Right (2008) a film with rap artist and CBC host Wab Kinew, directed by Chartrand was nominated for the 2008 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award, Best Music Video. Chartrand was the winner of the Canwest Mentorship Program at the 2010 imagineNATIVE film + Media Arts Festival. He directed the Other Side of The 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story, 2016 was nominated for the Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Documentary History & Biography.

Filmography

Further reading

• Friesen (2016) "Tackling the Gangs 1998-2000" in The Ballad of Danny6 Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw. Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Pg. 133.

References

1. ^ "About Ervin Chartrand". National Screen Institute. 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
2. Fortney, Valerie (19 March 2017). "Former gang member says growing trend a wakeup call for all". Winnipeg Sun. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
3. Fortney, Valerie (16 Mar 2017). "Education best tool to fight gangs: ex-member". Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Calgary Herald. p. 2. Retrieved 30 April 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
4. ^ "Ervin Chartrand Bio". VUCAVU. Canadian Filmmaker Distribution Centre. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
5. Gibson, Jennifer (2017). "Moving IMages - an exhibition of short film and video" (pdf). University of Winnipeg. p. 11. Retrieved 27 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
6. "SPRING 2017 CONVOCATION" (pdf). University of Manitoba. p. 15. Retrieved 28 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
7. ^ "The Sixth Annual REELWORLD Film Festival" (pdf). ReelWorld. Toronto, Ontario. 2006. p. 94. Retrieved 29 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
8. Crowe, Kathleen Buddle (2006). "Bullets for B-Roll: Shooting Native Films and Street Gangs in Western Canadian Cities (From Big House to Home)". University of Manitoba. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
9. Buddle (2011). "Urban Aboriginal Gangs and Street Sociality in the Canadian West". In Howard, Heather A.; Proulx, Craig (eds.). Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-55458-260-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
10. ^ "Our Collection: First Stories - Patrick Ross". National Film Board of Canada. 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
11. "Award Winners: 2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival". Media Indigena: interactive indigenous insight. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
12. ^ "2017 Winners & Nominees". Yorkton Film Festival. 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
13. ^ "Indigenous Filmmakers Distribution Catalogue" (pdf). Winniped Film Group. 2014. p. 12. Retrieved 26 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
14. ^ "Ervin Chartrand". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 27 April 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
15. Knopf (2008). "Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence against Aboriginal Women as Represented in Canadian Films". In Knopf, Kerstin (ed.). Aboriginal Canada Revisited. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: University of Ottawa Press. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-7766-0679-8.
16. "Wab Kinew releases music video". Indigenous Music. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
17. "Our Collection: Fight". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
18. ^ "Ervin Chartrand Bio". IMDB. Retrieved 27 April 2020.

External links

• Ervin Chartrand on Twitter
• Ervin Chartrand at IMDb
• Ervin Chartrand on Vimeo

• Film directors from Manitoba
• Canadian directors
• Canadian filmmakers
• First Nations filmmakers
• Canadian Métis people
• Artists from Manitoba
• Living people
• University of Manitoba alumni
• First Nations screenwriters