| Tkaronto | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Shane Belcourt |
| Written by | Shane Belcourt |
| Produced by | Shane Belcourt Duane Murray Jordan O'Connor Michael Corbiere |
| Starring | Duane Murray Melanie McLaren Lorne Cardinal |
| Cinematography | Shane Belcourt |
| Edited by | Jordan O'Connor |
| Music by | Jordan O'Connor |
| Distributed by | Kinosmith |
Release date |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Tkaronto is a Canadian drama film, which premiered in 2007 at the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto.[1] Directed by Shane Belcourt, the film went into commercial release in the summer of 2008.[2]
The film, named for the Mohawk word from which the name of the city of Toronto is derived, stars Duane Murray and Melanie McLaren as Ray Morrin and Jolene Peltier, who meet while in Toronto on business. Ray, a Métis cartoonist from Vancouver, is in town to pitch an animated series called Indian Jones to a television network, and Jolene, an Anishinaabe artist from Los Angeles, is in town to paint a portrait of Max (Lorne Cardinal), a local indigenous elder.
The film's cast also includes Cheri Maracle, Jeff Geddis, Mike McPhaden, Rae Ellen Bodie, Jonah Allison, Abby Zotz, Sandy Jobin-Bevans and Tricia Williams.