Red Snow | |
Director: | Marie Clements |
Producer: | Marie Clements Lael McCall Michelle Morris Jonathan Tammuz |
Starring: | Asivak Koostachin Samuel Marty Tarun Keram Tantoo Cardinal Mozhdah Jamalzadah |
Music: | Wayne Lavallee |
Cinematography: | Robert Aschmann Roger Vernon |
Editing: | Jamie Alain Rafi Spivak Darryl Whetung |
Studio: | Lily Pictures MCMedia Principia Productions Zhoh Daatsik Pictures |
Runtime: | 100 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English Gwich'in Inuvialuktun Pashto |
Red Snow (Gwichʼin:, Inuvialuktun:, Pushto; Pashto: سره واوره) is a 2019 Canadian war drama film, written and directed by Marie Clements.[1] The film stars Asivak Koostachin as Dylan Nadazeau, a Gwich'in soldier serving in the Canadian Army during the War in Afghanistan, who is captured by the Taliban.[2]
The film's cast also includes Tantoo Cardinal, Samuel Marty, Michelle Thrush, Tarun Keram, Mozhdah Jamalzadah, Steven Cree Molison and Leela Gilday. The film was shot in 2018 in various locations in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia, including Yellowknife, Dettah, Kamloops, Whistler and Cache Creek.[3] It includes dialogue in Gwich'in, Inuvialuktun, Pashto and English.[4]
The film premiered at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival,[1] where it won the Audience Award for Most Popular Canadian Film.[5] It subsequently won the award for Best Canadian Feature at the Edmonton International Film Festival.