Cara Mumford Films

The Post Production Team

Cara Mumford (director/ producer): Cara Mumford (Métis / Chippewa Cree) is a filmmaker, writer, and collaborative artist from Alberta, living in Peterborough, Ontario since 2010. Since becoming a filmmaker in 2006, Cara’s short films have screened regularly at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, and toured throughout Australia and internationally with the World of Women Film Festival. She has received industry training through Telefilm Canada's Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program (2010/11), Bell Media’s Diverse Screenwriters Program (2012), the imagineNATIVE Film Festival’s Story Lab with Maori writer/director Himiona Grace (2014) & imagineNATIVE Producer Mini-Lab with Heather Rae, former director of the Native Program at the Sundance Institute (2015), and the National Film Board’s Digital Studio (2016/17). Cara’s films tend to focus on the connections between her identity as an Indigenous woman and living in balance with the land, often incorporating elements such as dance, dreams, and futurisms to lift her storytelling out of the ordinary world. She believes in the power of visioning for the future, and that the connection we have with the land today determines the future we have tomorrow.

Faisal Lutchmedial (editor)  Faisal Lutchmedial won the Bell Media Diverse Screenwriters Program in 2012 and was assigned to the writing room of the fourth season of “The Listener.” He was subsequently hired to work as the story editor to that season’s webseries. As a director, Faisal wrote, directed, and acted in the short drama “Useless Things” (2009, 16 min), which won the Writer’s Guild of Canada English Script Prize at the Festival Nouveau Cinema Montreal.  He also wrote and directed the short drama “Mr. Crab” (2012, 9 min), which aired nationally on CBC’s Short Film Face Off. Faisal’s other life is in the world of documentary, where he directed the feature “My Cultural Divide” (2006, 75 min), and several other shorts for festivals and television. As an editor he has worked on projects like “Burgundy Jazz” (Radio-Canada), an interactive web-series which won multiple awards, and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. Faisal is based in Toronto, where he works as a writer and picture editor.

Rob Bertola (sound designer) Rob Bertola is an award winning Sound Designer. He has won several Genies, Geminis, Director's Guild Awards, a Golden Reel Award and an Emmy. Robert's diverse Sound Desinger credits include live theatre, dramatic film, IMAX, animation, toy sounds, and a Museum soundscape for the Canadian sculptor Tony Bloom. “I am fascinated with using conventional and unconventional sources, mixed with perspectives, to invoke, thought, feeling or vision.”

Edna Manitowabi (Anishinaabemowin vocals):  Edna Manitowabi (Ojibway/Odawa) is a gifted traditional singer, storyteller and Indigenous performance artist originally from Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island. She is a fifth degree Midewiwin, Head Woman of the Midewiwin Lodge at Roseau River, MB and the keeper of the Little Boy Water Drum. Always a strong supporter of Indigenous Arts, over the years she has served as the Traditional Cultural Director for Native Theatre School, The Centre for Indigenous Theatre, and the Aboriginal Dance Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has also performed in several theatrical productions, beginning in 1994 with her first role in Drew Hayden Taylor’s play “Someday,” in which she was able to incorporate her experience as a residential school survivor. Most recently, Edna appeared as the grandmother in the film "Indian Horse," which had it's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Edna will be recording "Aunty Mary" for the soundscape of "Ecstasy." She is also one of our cultural advisors for this project.

Eekwol (original music):  Eekwol aka Lindsay Knight (Cree Métis) is an award-winning hip hop performing artist in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, originally from Muskoday First Nation, Saskatchewan. Eekwol uses her music and words to spread messages of resistance, revolution, and keeping the language, land, and culture alive for the next generations. Through her original sound she displays her activist roots by living and creating as a supporter of both Hip Hop and Indigenous culture and rights. She has successfully completed her Indigenous-Music focused Master’s Degree at the University of Saskatchewan, which she has, along with her many years of dedication to hip hop, used to create something unique and astounding to give back to the community. Along with music and academic work, Eekwol frequently works with young people across the country as a mentor and helper. She achieves this through performances, workshops, speaking events, conferences, and programs. Check out her video for "Too Sick" (sampled in Cara Mumford's previous short film "When It Rains"):