{{Short description|2004 short film by Jeff Barnaby}} {{Infobox film | name = From Cherry English | native_name = | image = | caption = Film poster | director = Jeff Barnaby | producer = Danièle Rohrbach | writer = Jeff Barnaby | starring = Nathaniel Arcand | music = Joe Barrucco | cinematography = | editing = Paul Raphaël | studio = Nutaaq Media | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2004}} | runtime = 11 minutes | country = Canada | language = English<br />Mi'kmaq | budget = }}
'''''From Cherry English''''' is a Canadian short film, directed by Jeff Barnaby and released in 2004.<ref>James Adams, "Rhymes for Young Ghouls director likes to lean on other art forms". ''The Globe and Mail'', January 30, 2014.</ref> Barnaby's first short film, it stars Nathaniel Arcand as Traylor, a Mi'kmaq man who is taken on a hallucinogenic journey by a mysterious woman, as an allegory for the threats to indigenous identity posed by modern life.<ref>T'Cha Dunlevy, "Home on native land; Rhymes for Young Ghouls, which just wrapped its shoot in Kahnawake, opts for story over an emphasis on aboriginals' plight". ''Montreal Gazette'', November 23, 2012.</ref>
The film won two Golden Sheaf Awards at the 2004 Yorkton Film Festival, for Best Aboriginal and Best Videography.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49601272/daniels-calvin-globetrotter-film/|title=Globetrotter film scores|last=Daniels|first=Calvin|date=31 May 2004|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=The Leader-Post|location=Regina, Saskatchewan|page=13|access-date=26 April 2020|ref=Leader-Post-2004}}</ref> At the 2004 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, it received an honorable mention for the Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Emerging Talent.<ref>"Ghost Riders top documentary". ''North Bay Nugget'', October 30, 2004.</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0443005}}
Category:2004 short films Category:2004 science fiction films Category:Mi'kmaq-language films Category:Canadian science fiction short films Category:Films directed by Jeff Barnaby Category:2004 English-language films Category:2004 Canadian films Category:English-language science fiction films Category:English-language short films
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