Ervin Chartrand

Ervin Chartrand is a Canadian Métis/Ojibwe director, writer and producer.[1] He is best known for directing the films 504938C (2005) and First Stories: Patrick Ross (2006).[1]

Ervin Chartrand
Born
Winnipegosis, Manitoba, Canada
NationalityMétis/Ojibwe, Canadian
EducationUniversity of Winnipeg (Bachelor of Arts, 2017)
Notable work504938C (2005)
First Stories: Patrick Ross (2006)
Awards2005 Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival - New Talent Award,
2006 Yorkton Film Festival, Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal,
2006 ReelWorld Film Festival, ReelWorld Award - Outstanding Canadian Short Film

Personal life

Ervin Chartrand is a Métis/Ojibwe[2] from Pine Creek First Nation[3] Camperville, Manitoba, Canada.[1]

Chartrand earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in film studies[1] from the University of Winnipeg in 2017.[4]

Career

Chartrand first began his career in film in 2003, after enrolling in Winnipeg's Aboriginal Broadcast Training Initiative,[5] sponsored by the Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre.[1] 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.[1][5] Chartrand studied acting with the Academy of Broadcasting Corporation in Winnipeg.[1]

In 2005, Chartrand received the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, Best New Talent award for the film 504938C (2005).[1] 50938C was created with the support of the Winnipeg Film Group's First Film program.[6] In 2006, he won the Reelworld Film Festival, Reel World Award for Outstanding Canadian Short Film for Patrick Ross (2006).[7] He was invited to direct this short film by the National Film Board of Canada for the movie series First Stories, the Manitoba (Volume I).[8] Patrick Ross also won the 2006 Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal.[8] If this Was Right (2008), a film with rap artist and CBC host Wab Kinew and directed by Chartrand, was nominated for the 2008 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award, Best Music Video.[1] Chartrand was the winner of the Canwest Mentorship Program at the 2010 imagineNATIVE film + Media Arts Festival.[9] In 2017, Other Side of The 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story was nominated for the Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Documentary History & Biography.[10]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes Reference
2005 504938C Director/Producer/Writer Winnipeg Film Group's First Film program short film [11]
2006 First Stories - Patrick Ross Director/Writer NFB Prairie Centre: First Stories a competitive documentary production program. [12]
2007 Sister Director APTN’s Short Cuts program [11][13]
2008 If this Was Right Director Music video with rap artist and CBC host Wab Kinew [14]
2011 Life From 95 Director/Writer/Producer Short film [11]
2012 Fight Director/Writer NFB Short film [15][12]
2014 Lifer Director/Writer Short film [1]
2014 Trafficking Director/Writer Short film [1][16]
2015 Illusion Delusion Director/Writer Short film [16]
2016 Other Side of 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story Director/Writer TV movie [10][17]

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.
  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. "SPRING 2017 CONVOCATION" (PDF). University of Winnipeg. p. 15. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  5. "The Sixth Annual REELWORLD Film Festival" (PDF). ReelWorld. Toronto, Ontario. 2006. p. 94. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  6. 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.
  7. Buddle, Kathleen (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)
  8. "Our Collection: First Stories - Patrick Ross". National Film Board of Canada. 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  9. "Award Winners: 2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival". Media Indigena: interactive indigenous insight. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  10. "2017 Winners & Nominees". Yorkton Film Festival. 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  11. "Indigenous Filmmakers Distribution Catalogue" (PDF). Winniped Film Group. 2014. p. 12. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  12. "Ervin Chartrand". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  13. 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.
  14. "Wab Kinew releases music video". Indigenous Music. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  15. "Our Collection: Fight". National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  16. "Ervin Chartrand Bio". IMDB. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  17. "Other Side of the 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story". CBC News. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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