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How people got fire [videorecording (DVD)] = Comment les humains ont obtenu le feu.

National Film Board of Canada, 2009.

First Nations -- Drama.

Oral tradition -- Canada -- Drama.

First Nations women -- Drama.

Alternate title:

Comment les humains ont obtenu le feu

[videorecording (DVD)] =

1 videodisc (17 min.) : digital sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 12 cm.

Animated (Rotoscope with black and white charcoal and computer rendering).

Based on an oral story by Kitty Smith entitled "How Indians got fire".

DVD-R format. May not play on all DVD players.

Public performance rights.

Closed-captioned.

English ; optional French subtitles.

A National Film Board of Canada production ; Screenwriter/Director, Daniel Janke ; Producers, Svend-Erik Eriksen, Martin Rose ; Executive producer, Rina Fraticelli ; Animation, Christopher Auchter.

Mae Hume, Jonnie-Lyn Kushniruk, Amy Smarch, Austin Smith.

How people got fire centres on Grandma Kay (based on elder Kitty Smith) and the connection she forges with the village children through the oral tradition of their culture. Twelve-year-old Tish is one of those children - an introspective, talented girl who feels particularly drawn to Grandma Kay's kitchen. Here, past and present blend, myth and reality meet, and the metaphor of fire infuses all in a location that lies at the heart of the community's spiritual and cultural memory.

Animated films -- Canada.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Smith, Kathy. How Indians got fire.

Janke, Daniel, 1957-

Eriksen, Svend-Erik.

Fraticelli, Rina.

Auchter, Chris.

Kushniruk, Jonnie-Lyn.

National Film Board of Canada.

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