Tina Keeper
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Cree actress, producer, and former politician.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Birthday: March 20, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Mistress Madeleine
Overview: Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-12
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Indspire Awards 2023
Overview: The Indspire Awards reach a significant milestone as 2023 marks 30 years of honouring dedicated and community-focused First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-18
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Distant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery
Overview: Teevee Tenia has a plan - he intends to persuade Lynx River to dump the RCMP and establish an all Dene Police Force. But Corporal Michelle Kenidi is concerned: will a Dene Police Force in Lynx River be answerable to Canadian law, or to Teevee? When an elderly tourist is found beaten to death, Michelle’s concerns deepen as her suspicions fall upon Teevee’s friend, Matthew Fowler. As Michelle pursues the investigation, painful events from the past come alive. For the community of Lynx River, the investigation holds the town’s very future at stake.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Trial By Fire: A North of 60 Mystery
Overview: Blood may be thicker than water, but when RCMP officer Michelle Kenidi’s brother becomes a suspect in a deadly case of arson, only one thing matters – the truth. As the evidence against her brother continues to mount, Michelle tries to defend him – but gradually realizes that he has been lying to her. Torn between her sense of duty and her loyalty to her brother, she must trust her instincts to find out what Peter has been hiding – no matter what the cost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Dream Storm: A North of 60 Mystery
Overview: The body of a trapper from the community of Swan Landing washes up on the banks of Lynx River while the two towns are in bitter negotiations over a new gas pipeline. The near violent discussions have rekindled an ancient feud between the bands over land boundaries and trapping rights. At the same time, a strange illness sweeps through the homes of Lynx River, only affecting the children. Sarah Birkett’s skill as a nurse proves to be no match for the mass hysteria that results.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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In the Blue Ground: A North of 60 Mystery
Overview: Someone – or something – is stalking the woods of Lynx River, a small isolated town in the unforgiving wilderness. When a geologist on the verge of a major diamond find is murdered, Corporal Michelle Kenidi and her partner Constable James Harper suspect a hotheaded entrepreneur who’d been double-crossed by diamond hunters. But then the town nurse disappears under chilling circumstances and the two cops find themselves tracking a phantom. Through endless miles of rough terrain, their search leads to a startling discovery: the unknown stalker’s real target is Michelle. Now the madman is playing a deadly game with people as bait. And when the two finally meet, it’s a showdown that will leave only one of them standing.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-27
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Another Country: A North of 60 Mystery
Overview: While in Calgary on business for Lynx River Resources, Teevee Tenia is in the wrong place at the wrong time. A troubled young native woman reaches out to him for help and sets him up for a murder charge. Teevee is the perfect fall guy – young, alone and native. While Teevee struggles to hold his own in the urban justice system, Corporal Michelle Kenidi frantically searches for evidence that will exonerate him. Her efforts are thwarted and Teevee escapes and flees back to Lynx River. Michelle is left with a terrible choice: to turn Teevee in, or to betray the justice system that she has built her career on. Her only chance is to uncover the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-10
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Stellar
Overview: Set within the fluidity of time, touch, realism and reverie. Some may call this magic realism. Based within Indigenous knowledge and way of life, this story allows two people to heal, through touch, calm, love and patience in a fantastical space that leaves the audience dreamlike and yet it is dangerous and violent, there is love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-11
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For Angela
Overview: A young Native child struggles with her identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Falls Around Her
Overview: A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover that fame (and the outside world) are not easily left behind.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-08
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Through Black Spruce
Overview: The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-29
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No Turning Back
Overview: This film follows the aftermath of the Oka crisis, which brought Indigenous rights into sharp focus. After the barricades came down, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was created, and travelled to more than 100 communities and heard from more than 1,000 representatives. For two-and-a-half years, teams of Indigenous filmmakers followed the Commission on its journey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Smoked Lizard Lips
Overview: A recently-deposed Central American dictator re-locates to a small town in Northern Manitoba and starts a new repressive regime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Heater
Overview: In wintry Winnipeg a man struggling to keep the poor lodging he can find meets a homeless man lugging around an unopened electric heater. They cook up plots to get some money for the heater and survive the cold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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