# How People Got Fire

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***How People Got Fire*** is a short, poetic [animated film](/source/Animated_film) from the [Yukon](/source/Yukon).

## Synopsis

In a snowy village, a talented young girl listens to her grandmother's story of how [Crow](/source/Crow) got fire for the people. A magical realist exploration of [aboriginal American spirituality](/source/Native_American_mythology), [oral story-telling](/source/Storytelling), and a northern childhood.

## About the film

"This short film is based in part on the story told by the late Kitty Smith of the [Kwanlin Dun First Nation](/source/Kwanlin_Dun_First_Nation)."[2]

The film was shot in [Carcross-Tagish](/source/Carcross,_Yukon), Yukon and [rotoscoped](/source/Rotoscoping),[3] with the addition of charcoal drawings by [Christopher Auchter](/source/Christopher_Auchter), and a contemporary classical sound track by Daniel Janke.[4]

The film was the 2009 World Indigenous Film Awards Winner for Best Animation, and received the [2009 American Indian Film Festival Award](/source/American_Indian_Film_Festival), Best Animated Short.[5][6] It received an award for Best Short Documentary at the 2009 Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, and the TEUEIKAN Second Prize at the 2009 [First Peoples' Festival (Land InSights)](/source/Terres_en_vues/Land_InSights), Montréal.[7] The film was a finalist for the Writers Guild of Canada 2010 Screenwriting Award for Short Subjects.[8]

## Festivals

- "[Tromsø International Film Festival, Frozen Land-Moving Pictures](/source/Troms%C3%B8_International_Film_Festival)", Jan. 18-23, 2011[9]
- "[Atlantic Film Festival](/source/Atlantic_Film_Festival)", Sept. 16-25, 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia[10]
- "Sprockets: Toronto International Film Festival for Children", April 17–23, 2010[11]
- "ECOFILMS: Rhodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival", 2010[12]
- "Animation Celebration!", Museum of the American Indian, New York, February 2010[13]
- "[American Indian Film Festival](/source/American_Indian_Film_Festival)", Nov. 6-14, 2009, San Francisco, CA[6]
- "ImagiNATIVE Film - Media Arts Festival", Oct. 14-18, 2009, Toronto[14]
- "Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth, Vancouver BC, 2009[15]
- "[The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival](/source/London_Film_Festival)", 14–29 October 2009[5]
- "Dreamspeakers Film Festival", June 18–21, 2009[5]
- "Available Light Film Festival," Yukon Arts Center, 2009[3]

## See also

- [Angela Sidney](/source/Angela_Sidney)
- [Raven in mythology](/source/Raven_in_mythology)
- [Prometheus](/source/Prometheus)
- [Kwanlin Dün First Nation](/source/Kwanlin_D%C3%BCn_First_Nation)
- [Carcross/Tagish First Nation](/source/Carcross/Tagish_First_Nation)

## References

1. ["Graduate Scholarship Will Be Legacy of "How People Got Fire""](http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/press-room/?id=14767). National Film Board of Canada. 2006-05-08. Retrieved 2010-02-20.

1. ["How People Got Fire - DVD/Comment les humains ont obtenu le feu - DVD"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110202031508/http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=57017). National Film Board of Canada. 2006-05-08. Archived from [the original](http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=57017) on February 2, 2011. Retrieved 2010-01-26.

1. ["How People Got Fire Premieres at ALFF"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110718035148/http://www.whatsupyukon.com/index.php/current-issue/931-how-people-got-fire-premieres-at-alff.html). What's Up Yukon, All Northern, All Fun. 2009-02-20. Archived from [the original](http://www.whatsupyukon.com/index.php/current-issue/931-how-people-got-fire-premieres-at-alff.html) on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-02-20.

1. ["How People Got Fire excerpt"](http://www.danieljanke.com/daniel/music/how_people_got_fire.mp3). Daniel Janke. 2010-02-20. Retrieved 2010-02-20.[dead link]

1. ["Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences"](http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/338). British Film Institute. 2009. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090914084351/http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/338) 2009-09-14 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2010-06-26.

1. ["34th Annual American Indian Film Festival"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110707094908/http://www.aifisf.com/aiff/2009/?fMenu=&q=&fContent=film&id=247). American Indian Film Institute. 2009. Archived from [the original](http://www.aifisf.com/aiff/2009/?fMenu=&q=&fContent=film&id=247) on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-06-26.

1. ["Film Collection, National Film Board of Canada, How People Got Fire"](http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=53743#nav-prix). National Film Board of Canada. 2010-08-03. Retrieved 2011-07-24.

1. ["The Finalists!"](http://www.jillgolick.com/2010/02/the-finalists-2/). Running with my Eyes Closed, Life at the Intersection of Television and Digital. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-26.

1. ["FFN – POLAR FOCUS 2"](http://www.tiff.no/?go=film&id=440). Tromso International Film Festival. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-26.

1. ["How People Got Fire"](https://web.archive.org/web/20091031092742/http://atlantic.bside.com/2009/films/howpeoplegotfire_atlantic2009). Atlantic Film Festival. 2010. Archived from [the original](http://atlantic.bside.com/2009/films/howpeoplegotfire_atlantic2009) on 2009-10-31. Retrieved 2010-06-26.

1. ["How People Got Fire"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100313134849/http://www.sprockets.ca/filmsandschedule/films/howpeoplegotfire/default.aspx). Sprockets 2010, Toronto International Film Festival for Children. 2010-02-20. Archived from [the original](http://www.sprockets.ca/filmsandschedule/films/howpeoplegotfire/default.aspx) on 2010-03-13. Retrieved 2010-02-20.

1. ["Competition short length films"](http://www.ecofilms.gr/03.1.films_en.asp). ECOFILMS: Rhodos International Films + Visual Arts Festival. 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-26.

1. ["How People Got Fire"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100202025411/http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?second=ny&subpage=events). Animation Celebration!", Museum of the American Indian, New York, February 2010. 2010-02-20. Archived from [the original](http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=events&second=ny) on 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2010-02-20.

1. ["Shout Out Loud Youth Program-"](https://web.archive.org/web/20091214162542/http://www.imaginenative.org/program.php?id=74). ImagiNATIVE Film - Media Arts Festival. 2009. Archived from [the original](http://www.imaginenative.org/program.php?id=74) on 2009-12-14. Retrieved 2010-06-26.

1. ["How People Got Fire"](http://r2rfestival.org/2009/shortfilms/How-People-Got-Fire). Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth. 2010-02-20. Retrieved 2010-02-20. [dead link]

## External links

- [How People Got Fire](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1545307/) at IMDb
- Watch [*How People Got Fire*](http://www.nfb.ca/film/how_people_got_fire/) at the [National Film Board of Canada](/source/National_Film_Board_of_Canada) website (requires [Adobe Flash](/source/Adobe_Flash))

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