ʔEʔanx (The Cave) (2009)
October 14, 2009Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Edmund Lulua
Ahan
Elaina William
Spirit World Woman 1
Kelly William
Spirit World Lead Male
Kelly William
Spirit World Lead Male
Helen Haig-Brown
Director
Loni Solomon
Spirit World Woman 2
Natalie Boll
Producer
Daana Gilpin
Spirit World Woman 3
Adrian Cox
Producer
Rita Lulua Meldrum
Spirit World Woman 4
Nolan Guichon
Spirit World Man 2
Leena Minifie
Producer
Linda Haig-Brown
Spirit World Woman 5 / Prop Designer
Randy Che
Cinematographer
Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill
Spirit World Woman 6 / Props
Raven Anne Potschka
Spirit World Woman 7 / Still Photographer / Hair Designer / Wardrobe Master
Damien Alphonse
Spirit World Man 3
Linda Smith
Spirit World Woman 1 (voice)
Luis Almazan
VFX Supervisor / Digital Compositor
Stacey Bishop
Props
D'Arcy O'Connor
Sound Designer / Music
Henry Solomon
Story
Marty Ballentyne
Sound Designer / Music
Alec MacNeill Richardson
Editor
Simon Guibord
Sound Designer
Olivier Jomphe
Sound Designer
Morgan Green
Makeup Artist / Costume Designer
Michelle Lapratt
Makeup Designer
Jesse Corcorian
Props
Shelley Hunlin
Still Photographer
Details.
Wiki.
The Cave (Tsilhqot'in: ?E?anx) is a Canadian short science fiction film, directed by Helen Haig-Brown and released in 2009. The first science fiction film shot in an Indigenous Canadian language, the film adapts a Tsilhqot'in tale about a man who discovers a portal to the spirit world while hunting a bear.The film stars Edmund Lulua as the hunter, and Kelly William as his spirit world guide. Narration is provided by the original tape recording of the story, which was first recorded by Haig-Brown's great uncle.The film was produced as part of the Embargo Collective, a project spearheaded by the ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival to commission the creation of short films in indigenous languages. It was shot in summer 2009 in the Nemaiah Valley near Williams Lake, British Columbia, and premiered at ImagineNATIVE in October 2009.The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2009.