A stop motion short film by two B.C. filmmakers is highlighting the life of a Nakwaxda’xw Elder and her experiences growing up near Alert Bay, a village off the coast of Vancouver Island.
Tiny is directed by Ritchie Hemphill and animated by Ryan Haché, longtime friends and founders of the Vancouver Island-based animation studio, Bronfree Films.
The short film is based on the life of ‘Nakwaxda’xw Elder Colleen Hemphill, Ritchie’s mother.
In Tiny, Colleen, who spent much of her childhood living on a float house near Alert Bay — a village on Cormorant Island, near the northeastern town of Port McNeill on Vancouver Island — is featured telling stories about her relationships with family, the community and nature.
To make the film, the duo
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