JULES ARITA KOOSTACHIN

JULES ARITA KOOSTACHIN

2642MelfaLane,Vancouver,BCV6T2C6Email:[email protected]:#604.928.1226Website:juleskoostachin.com

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Born in Moose Factory Ontario, Jules was raised by her Cree speaking grandparents in Moosonee, and also with her mother in Ottawa, a warrior of the Canadian Residential school system. Jules is a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation, the ancestral lands of the MoshKeKo InNiNeWak. She currently resides in Vancouver where she is a PhD candidate with the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, her research focus is Indigenous documentary. In 2010, she completed her masters at Ryerson University in Documentary Media where she was awarded the Award of Distinction for her thesis work, as well as the Graduate Ryerson Gold Medal for highest academic achievement. While in graduate school, she produced her first feature documentary film Remembering Inninimowin regarding her journey of remembering Cree. After graduation, Jules was one of six women selected for the Women in the Directors Chair program at the Banff Center, where she directed a scene from her feature script Broken Angel, which is currently in development. Jules’ television series AskiBOYZ (2016) co-produced with Big Soul Production is now being aired on Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. Jules’ company VisJuelles Productions Inc. has a number of films and other media works in development. In 2017, she released her short documentary NiiSoTeWak and her second CBC short OshKiKiShiKaw: A New Day will be released in early 2019. In 2017, she released a short documentary Butterfly Monument about her relation, the late Shannen Koostachin with co-director/producer Rick Miller. Jules was the 2017 Aboriginal Storyteller in Residence with the Vancouver Public Library where she further developed her poetry. In the fall of 2018, Jules latest narrative film OChiSkwaCho (2019 MATRIX Award) premiered at ImagineNative Film Festival, and she is also in development with two (2) APTN television series Threshold with Jules Koostachin and SACRED. In 2018, her first book of poetry Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths was published with Kegedonce Press, and she was also a selected filmmaker for the TIFF Filmmakers Lab. Jules is currently writing her first novel Moccasin Souls to be published in 2020, and is aiming to defend her PhD thesis in the fall of 2020. Jules is also the voice of Layla (Mom) on the new PBS Kids/CBC Kids (2019) animated series Molly of Denali. She carries extensive knowledge working in Indigenous community in several different capacities and these community experiences continue to feed her advocacy and her arts practice.



EDUCATION

2015/20, University of British Columbia, Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, PhD 2008/10, Ryerson University, Documentary Media Graduate Program, MFA 1991/96, Concordia University, Fine Arts Major Theatre Program, BFA 1994/96, Carleton University, Extended Credit Program, Visiting student 2008, Ryerson University, Summer Intensive Film Program, Certificate 2007/08, George Brown College, Writing & Video Production, Certificate 2001/03, Seneca College, Early Childhood Education Diploma 1996/98, George Brown College, AWCCA Program, Diploma (Honours)

PROFILE AT-A-GLANCE • 15+ Senior managerial skills and expertise in the social service sector • 25+ years of multi-disciplinary arts experience • Short and feature independent film production skills • Experience in live event, short feature, and series production

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

• Solid expertise in assembling teams to develop and follow through on productions • Cross cultural communications and development of Anti-Racism Frameworks/Strategies • Indigenous contemporary and traditional awareness: Innininewak pedagogy • Group facilitation and Individual counselling • Human Resources, proposal writing, and reporting

FILM/TELEVSION/PRODUCTION

2007/20, VisJuelles Productions Inc. & AskiBOYZ Productions Inc., Producer, Writer & Director 2020, CBC Shorts, Producer/Writer/Director, KaYaMenTa: Sharing Truths about Menopause 2018/19, APTN Development, Writer/Director, Sacred 2018/19, CMF Development, Writer/Producer, Threshold with Jules Koostachin 2018/19, CBC Short Doc, Producer/Writer/Director, OshKiKiShiKaw: A New Day 2018, Short Drama, Producer/Writer/Director, OChiSkwaCho 2017, CBC Short Doc, Co-producer/Co-writer/Co-director, Butterfly Monument 2017, Short Doc, Executive Producer/Writer/Director, NiSoTeWak 2017, WIOT Online Magazine, Video Poem, Writer/Director, Children of the Children 2017, Feature Drama, Development, Writer/Director, Broken Angel 2016, Healing Arts, Dying of Thirst Exhibit, NiiPii Water Teaching 2016/17, Short Drama (HD) Development, Producer/Director/Writer, OChiSkwaCho 2013/17, AskiBOYZ Productions, TV Series APTN, with Big Soul Productions 2014, Short Documentary, Writer/Director, with Sharik Productions, Without Words 2013/14, TV Hour Documentary, Development Shaw Media RedBarz 2012/13, Short (HD), Director, Wakeling Productions, Alien Night 2012, Short Doc, Writer/Director, B3 Media, UK, PLACEnta 2012, Short (HD) Writer/Director, CSV/Imaginative Program Recipient NiiPii 2012, Multi-Media Installation, Artistic Director, WARC Gallery, Alive with Breath 2011, Doc-Reality TV Series (HD) Writer/Producer, APTN/CMF Development AskiBOYZ 2011, Short (8mm), Writer/Director, Niso Kakastesinowin 2011, Multi-media Installation, Artistic Director, Beit Zatoun, Alive with Breath



2010, Feature Doc (HD), V Tape, Writer/Producer/Director, Remembering Inninimowin 2009, Photography Series, Producer/Director, Birch Talking 2008, Short (HD), Writer/Producer/Director, Napaw Mahiiganish 2008, Short (HD), Writer/Producer/Director, Morning Rush 2008, Short (16mm), Wrote/Produced/Directed, Petit Mort 2020, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Faculty of Arts Instructor

• Indigenous Studies INDG1100 2020, University of British Columbia – GRSJ/Critical Indigenous Studies Instructor

• Gender, Race, and Indigeneity in Canada 301 201 • Indigenous Cinema Studies 401T 101 • Indigenous Documentary 401E • Indigenous Foundations Studies 100 001

2019/20, Capilano University – Indigenous Independent Digital Filmmaking Instructor

• Indigenous Cinema Studies IDF120 • Professional development PD119 • Technical Directing IDF142 • Screenwriting IDF233 • Production Development IDF243

2019, DOC BC – Documentary Filmmaking Instructor

• Approach to Indigenous Story • Protocols and Process

Fall 2019/Summer 2020, Emily Carr – Screenwriting Instructor

• Script Writing WRTG 313 F001

2019, NSI/TELUS Storyhive) – Indigenous Storytellers Edition Mentor

• Mentoring emerging Indigenous filmmaker • Provide advice and support • Review, provide feedback and advise on digital short process

2017, Vancouver Public Library Indigenous Storyteller in Residence

• Public presentations • Group workshops • Consultations with new storytellers • Storytelling/public events



2015/16, University of British Columbia Teaching Assistant/Indigenous Pedagogies Researcher

• 2015/16, Gender, Race, Sex and Power - TA • 2016, Critical Studies in Sexuality – TA • 2016, Joint Book Review – BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly • 2017, Mothers/Mothering: Space and Place, Demeter Press “PLACEnta: Finding Our Place” • 2015/17, Indigenous Pedagogies Research Network - RA • 2020, University of Regina Press “Children of Survivors: Canadian Residential Schools” Editor

2014/15, Laurentian University Equity and Diversity Advisor - Human Rights Office

• Departmental presentations: Laurentian University community • Research and development of human rights training modules • Provide human rights information, training and workshops • Provide assistance and support to the Human Rights Advisor • Investigation support and action/strategic planning

2014/15, University of Sudbury, School of Indigenous Studies Sessional Instructor

• Course: Indigenous Arts of the Americas • Course: Indigenous Literature and Plays • Coordinator of the 2nd Annual Film Festival featuring Indigenous women filmmakers

2014/15 ImagineNATIVE, Northern Ontario Film and Video Tour, Filmmaker in Residence

• Travelling film festival featuring award winning Indigenous films • Youth video production/training for Indigenous youth

2013/15 OCADU, Northern Recruitment Coordinator

• Outreach: Community visits and presentations • Internal strategic planning and assessment: Education and Indigenous youth in Ontario • Instructor and assisted in coordination of OCADU Duke Redbird Summer Institute

2011/13 George Brown College, Assaulted Women/Children Counselling/Advocacy Program Instructor

• Working with Abused Women Course: Level 1 & 2 • Northern Aboriginal Anti-violence AWCCA program Instructor: Indigenous approach to counseling

and advocacy course • Curriculum assessment and development for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous components

2010/13 Elizabeth Fry Toronto Court and Volunteer Manager

• Part-time contract in unionized environment • Program assessments, supervision, and committee work • Managerial administration and program budget overview



• Oversaw operations of Partner Assault Response program (PARS), Volunteer program, Direct Accountability & Aboriginal Court Intervention program

• General bookkeeping, strategic planning, statistical collection and ministry reporting 2007/12 North York Women Shelter, Toronto Counsellor

• Case management, statistical collection, and safety planning • Group and individual counseling: Women, youth and children • Intake, discharge, assessments and referrals

2009/10 Elizabeth Fry Toronto Homelessness and Outreach Manager

• Part-time contract in unionized environment • Managerial administration, budget overview and oversaw daily operations of programs: Housing,

Work Safe, BEST (Employment) and Peer Support Program • General bookkeeping, program assessments & Ministry reports

2003/07 Anduhyaun Inc, Toronto Director of Shelter/Acting CEO

• Administration, budget overview and overall management of agency • Oversaw daily operations of programs and services for Indigenous women, youth and children • General bookkeeping and government financial submissions • Departmental executive reports and statistical collection/information • Management of departments: Daycare, Crisis Centre, Shelter and Second Stage Housing • Reported directly to the Board of Directors and funding agents as ‘Acting CEO’

2001/03 Awashishuck Daycare, Toronto Manager

• Full time permanent manager in unionized environment • Administration and management of daycare according to Day Nurseries Act • Monitored program expenses as budgeted • Metro Toronto Children’s Services: Subsidies, discharges, transfers and admissions • Organized/supervised daily operations and activities of daycare

1998-01 Earlscourt Family Centre, Toronto Counsellor

• Direct services and case management • Assessments and crisis management • Court accompaniment, intake, referrals and discharge

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS/PUBLIC SPEAKING EVENTS (Selected)

2020, VPL Indigenous Storytellers, ONLINE, Vancouver, BC 2019, HASTAC, UBC Conference, MooNaHaTihKaSiWew, Vancouver, BC 2019, Quest University, Race, Power and Privilege Symposium, Squamish, BC 2018, University of Kent, Indigenous Media, Guest Speaker, Canterbury, UK 2018, UBC Indigenous Critical Studies, Book signing/reading of Unearthing, Vancouver, BC



2018, Vancouver Public Library, Book launch of Unearthing Secrets, Vancouver, BC 2018, Kwantlen University, Powerful Medicine Event, Guest Poet, Vancouver, BC 2018, UBC SCARP Symposium, Mars Panel, Panelist, Vancouver, BC 2018, SFU Gallery, Indigenous Film and Resurgence, Guest Speaker/filmmaker, Vancouver, BC 2018, Great Moon Gathering, Indigenous Media, Guest Speaker, Timmins, ON 2017, UBC Undergraduate Film Students Association, Guest speaker, Vancouver, BC 2017, BC Civil Liberties Association: Youth Conference, Keynote speaker, Vancouver, BC 2017, Aboriginal Voices: Evening of Poetry and Prose, Guest Poet, Event Magazine, Vancouver, BC 2017, F-Word Conference, A Year in Review UBC GRSJ, Keynote speaker, Vancouver, BC 2016, Solid Screen Festival, Australia – Film Presentation/Artist Talk 2016, Wairoa Film Festival, Film Presentation/Artist Talk on Indigenous Media, Auckland, NZ 2016, UniTech, Indigenous Film, Guest speaker, Auckland, NZ 2016, NAISA Conference, Indigenous Women in Documentary Film, Academic speaker, Hawaii, US 2015, Belize Film Festival, Garifuna/Maya, Artist Talk & Community Visit, Guest speaker, Belize 2015, Pre-screening of AskiBOYZ series/Artist Talk, Nipissing University, Guest, North Bay, ON 2015, Dream Big Conference, Indigenous Media Artist Talk, Guest filmmaker, North Bay, ON 2015, Belize Indigenous Cultural Exchange & Film Presentation on Indigenous Media, Belize 2014, Belize Film Festival, Garifuna/Maya Community Artist Visit/Screening of PLACEnta, Belize 2014, Truth and Reconciliation, Pearls of Wisdom, Panelist, Edmonton, AB 2014, TRC Premier - The Jingle Dress – Film Presentation/Guest speaker, Edmonton, AB 2014, TRC, Pearls of Wisdom Panel – Panelist on Intergenerational Trauma, Edmonton, AB 2014, OCADU - Change in the Direction of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Panelist, Toronto, ON 2013, Laurentian University, Artist Talk & Alive with Breath Installation, Sudbury, ON 2013, Nipissing University, Artist Talk on Indigenous Media, North Bay, ON 2012, Truth and Reconciliation, Remembering Inninimowin - Film Presentation 2012, TDSB, OISE Conference – Guest speaker on Attawapiskat, University of Toronto, ON 2011, World Indigenous Conference, Academic speaker - Remembering Inninimowin, Peru 2011, Indigenous Conference on Language, Remembering Inninimowin, Arizona University, AZ 2011, SILS Conference, Academic speaker Indigenous Media, University of New Mexico, US 2010, Algonquin Conference, Memorial University, Guest - Remembering Inninimowin, NFL 2010, Canada Council, Media Collaboration Exchange, Australia 2010, Indigenous Education Conference, Academic speaker on Indigenous Media, Cairns, Australia 2010, Indigenous Film Symposium, Artist talk/screening - Remembering Inninimowin, Maine, US 2010, Eagle Valley, Residential School Workshop on Intergenerational Trauma, Eagle Village, PQ 2010, Residential School Symposium, Intergenerational Resilience, Nipissing U, North Bay, ON 2009, Traveling Canoes, Academic speaker on Indigenous Media, UBC, Vancouver, BC 2009, Indigenous Women’s Symposium, Academic speaker Indigenous Media, Trent University, ON 2009, Indigenous Awareness, Academic guest Indigenous Media, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (Selected) 2019, Whistler Screenwriters Lab, Broken Angel (Story editor/mentor Dennis Foon) 2018, TIFF Filmmaker Lab 2015, Banff Centre, Lougheed Ambassador Leadership Program - Certificate 2014, Banff Indigenous Leadership and Management, Indigenous Governance - Certificate 2012, Banff Centre Hi Rez Storytelling Media – Artist Residency 2012, Women in Film & Television, Convergent Media - Certificate 2011, Cross Cultural Communication, Human Rights (ARAO) - Certificate



VOLUNTEER/BOARD EXPERIENCE/MENTORSHIP (Selected)

2016/20, Board Member - Kids Help Phone, Canada 2017/19, Frames Advisory Committee, Frames Film Program, Vancouver, BC 2015/16, Mentor - Coady Institute, Indigenous women in Community Leadership 2012/15, Project Lead - Shannen Koostachin Monument, New Liskeard, ON 2014/15, Jury - City of Sudbury Arts and Culture Grant Program, Sudbury, ON 2004/14, Programmer/Mentor, Female Eye Film Festival (Indigenous Programming) 2011/12, Board Member, ANDPVA (Indigenous Arts Organization), Toronto, ON 2007/09, Board Member, Constance Hamilton Cooperative Housing, Toronto, ON

FILM FESTIVAL CIRCUIT (Selected) 2020, Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse, NiiSoTeWak 2020, Maoriland Film Festival, NZ, OshKiKiShiKaw: A New Day 2019, Wairoa Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, OChiSkwaCho 2019, DOXA Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, OshKiKiShiKaw: A New Day 2019, VIWFF, Vancouver, BC, OChiSkwaCho (Matrix Award Outstanding BC Short) 2019, Maoriland Film Festival, New Zealand, OChiSkwaCho 2018, LA Skins Festival, Los Angeles, OChiSkwaCho 2018, imagineNative Film Festival, Toronto, ON, OChiSkwaCho 2018, Native Spirit Film Festival, London, UK, NiiSoTeWak, PLACEnta & Butterfly Monument 2017, LA Skins Film Festival, Awarded Best Short Documentary, Los Angeles, NiiSoTeWak 2017, Best Shorts Competition, Award of Excellence, International, NiiSoTeWak 2016, Canadian Indigenous Shorts, Air Canada In-Flight Entertainment, Without Words 2016, Caribbean Tales Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Without Words 2016, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, Without Words 2016, Wairoa Film Festival, Wairoa, New Zealand, Without Words and PLACEnta 2016, Reel Kanata IV: Canadian Indigenous Shorts, Berlin, Without Words 2015, American Indian Film Festival, Without Words 2015, CION Film Award Nomination, Sudbury, ON, Script: Broken Angel 2015, Asinabka Film Festival, Ottawa, ON, Without Words 2015, Canadiana 8Fest, Toronto, ON Niso Kakastesinowin 2015, ImagineNative Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Without Words 2015, Belize International Film Festival, Artist Talk Workshop, Without Words 2015, Saw Gallery Screening/Artist Talk, Ottawa, ON, NiiPii 2014, American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco, PLACEnta 2014, Belize International Film Festival, Belize City, PLACEnta (Best Short Doc) 2014, Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, ON, PLACEnta 2014, Asinabka Film Festival, Ottawa, ON, PLACEnta 2013, Biindigaate Film Festival, Thunder Bay, ON, Remembering Inninimowin & NiiPii 2013, Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, UK, PLACEnta 2013, Pacific Voices Screening, Auckland, NZ, PLACEnta 2013, Dreamspeaker Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB, NiiPii 2012, Sweetgrass Film Festival, Kenora, ON, NiiPii 2012, WARC/Female Eye Film Festival Multi-media Installation, Toronto, ON, Alive with Breath 2012, Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Niso Kakastesinowin 2010/14, Aboriginal Programs Director, Toronto, ON, Female Eye Film Festival Jury Lead



2011, Sweetgrass Film Festival, Kenora, ON, Remembering Inninimowin 2011, Sweetgrass Film Festival, Kenora, ON, Youth Film Workshop/Presentation 2011, ImagineNative Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Niso Kakastesinowin 2011, Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Remembering Inninimowin 2010, Beit Zatoun, Toronto, ON, Remembering Inninimowin 2010, TVFest, Montenegro, Remembering Inninimowin 2010, American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco, Remembering Inninimowin 2010, DocNow Multi-Media Festival, Toronto, ON, Remembering Inninimowin

2018/20 PUBLICATIONS Moccasin Souls, Memoir, Kegedonce Press, Editor Joanne Artnott Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths, Kegedonce Press, Editor Joanne Arnott Insiders Outsiders: The Cultural Politics and Ethics of Indigenous Representation and Participation in Canada’s Media Arts Wlifrid Laurier University Press, Editor Dana Claxton Mothers and Mothering: In and Out of Place – Demeter Press, Editors Jennifer Johnson & Krista Johnston Mothers of Invention: Parenting and/as Filmmaking Practice, Editors Sophie Mayer and Corinn Columpar

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