"My Own Private Lower Post" is the story of Duane Gastant’ Aucoin, a two-spirited Tlingit, as he seeks to understand how his mother Vicky Bob’s trials at Lower Post Indian Residential School have influenced his life. As she shares her story, he comes to understand how he too is a survivor. Haa Koosteeyi (Our Tlingit Way) is where mother and son find the strength to overcome and truly survive.
World Premiere at 2008 imagineNATIVE Film Festival - Toronto, Canada This is the first 5 min of a 32 min production.
Directors
Alanis Obomsawin, Byron Chief-Moon & Loretta Todd
Awards
19th International 2-Spirit Male Warrior, 2007
2004 Vancouver Entrepreneur of the Year Award Nominee “Education Category”
2003 Xtra West’s Western Canada’s Community Achievement Awards Winner “Achievement in the Arts”
2003 Out On Screen Vancouver Queer Film & Video Festival Audience Favourite Award Winner “Best Feature” Kichx Anagaat Yatx’i: Children of the Rainbow
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Festivals
* My Own Private Lower Post; Video; Yukon Hall Residential School Healing Ceremony, Whitehorse, YT
* My Own Private Lower Post; 2009 Dawson City Film and Video Festival
* My Own Private Lower Post; Video; 2009 Tlingit Clan Conference, Juneau, AK
* My Own Private Lower Post; Video; 2009 Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse, YT * My Own Private Lower Post; Video; Canada Council Staff Screening * My Own Private Lower Post; Video; 2008 Toronto imagineNATIVE Film Festival *Children of the Rainbow; Video; 2007 Montreal First Peoples Festival *The End; Video; 2007 Dawson City Film and Video Festival *The End; Video; 2007 Weeneebeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival *The End; Video; 2006 Toronto imagineNATIVE Film Festival *Children of the Rainbow/Chez D’s; Video; 2006 Kelowna Digging Deep from Memory Exhibit *Chez D’s; Video; 2005 Toronto imagineNATIVE Film Festival *Chez D’s/Queer as Chief; Video; 2005 Vancouver IMAGeNATION Film Festival *Chez D’s; Video; 2004 Vancouver Out On Screen Queer Film Festival *Urban NDN; Video; 2004 Vancouver Pride in Art Exhibit *Susie & Charlie’s 2-Spirit Tour; Video; 2004 Edmonton Stats Canada Conference *Sex & the Rez/Susie & Charlie; Video; 2004 Vancouver IMAGeNATION Film Festival *Sex & the Rez/Susie & Charlie; Video; 2004 CBC Radio 3 Website *Children of the Rainbow; Video / Live; 2004 Kingston Reel Out Film Festival * Urban NDN/Sneakin in the Movies; Video; 2003 Whitehorse Longest Night Concert *Children of the Rainbow; Video / Live; 2003 Vancouver Out On Screen Queer Film Festival
Professional Affiliations
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Duane Gastant' Aucoin's Interests
General
I narrated this documentary for the Arctic Athabaskan Council.
The World Premiere was at the 2005 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Montreal, PQ www.arcticathabaskancouncil.com
About me:
Gastant' yoo xat doowasaakw lingit x'einax.
Lingit xat seetee.
Gooch nax xat seetee.
Yanyeidi aya xat.
Dlet Kaa yadee ka Desheetan Dachxank.. aya xat.
Delesleen kwaan aya xat.
Gastant' is my Tlingit name.
I am Tlingit.
I am Wolf moiety.
My clan is Yanyeidi.
I am a White Man Child and a Desheetan Grandchild.
I am of the Teslin People.
Duane Gastant’ Aucoin is a Wolf/Yanyedi member of the Teslin Tlingit Council and recently returned home from Vancouver, BC.
He received training from his elders as the lead singer/drummer/dancer for the Deslin Khwan Dancers in the Yukon and has performed with them throughout Canada and the US since 1996.
Aucoin received formal schooling in the First Nation Theatre Training taught by nationally acclaimed director Carol Grey-Eyes. He is currently performing “Cash Creek Charlie” along with Sharon Gramma Susie” Shorty in the stand-up comedy routine “Susie & Charlie”. He has also starred in the First Nation’s Theatre Production “Raven’s Tale” in Whitehorse, Yukon, which he also co-wrote and directed. This was featured on APTN’s NEDAA.
Aucoin produced/directed/wrote/starred in “Kichx Anagaat Yatx’i: Children of the Rainbow,” a celebration of two-Spirited peoples that integrated both live and digital video pieces into one 90-minute production. The world premiere was at the 2003 Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival in Vancouver. It won the top award of “Audience Favorite for Best Feature”. It has played at various venues across the country and has received much acclaim and publicity.
Aucoin won the 2003 XtraWest’s Community Achievement Award for Achievement in the Arts for Children on the Rainbow.
He was also a nominee for the 2003 Vancouver Entrepreneur of the Year, “Education” Category.
In 2004 Aucoin was the associate producer for the Our City Our Voices Project with the National Film Board of Canada, a Storyscapes Project designed by Kamala Todd. This project helped the First Nations People living in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside tell their own story and share it with the general public.
He recently received an international award by being named the “International Two-Spirit Male Warrior” at the 19th International Two-Spirit Gathering held in Saskatchewan, 2007. As part of his duties he publicly speaks on issues pertaining to Two-Spirited People, their history, duties and their rights in First Nations Society.
Aucoin is currently performing solo & with Sharon Shorty at various venues around the country as well as working on new video productions. But his most important work continues to be supporting his elders in his community of Teslin to help bring back his Inland Tlingit Language & Culture.
FILM/VIDEO/WEB
*My Own Private Lower Post, Gagaan Kook'; Lead Male Actor; imagineNATIVE Film Festival
*CORE video; Lead Male Actor; Yukon Government
*Chez D's; Lead Actor; Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival
*Children of the Rainbow; Lead Actor; Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival
STAGE
*2007 Western Canada Summer Games; Performer; Sherwood Park, Alberta
*2007 National Day of Action; Lead Drummer; Ottawa, Ontario
*2007 Toronto PRIDE Parade; Marcher; Toronto, Ontario
*2007 Montreal First Peoples Festival; Storyteller/Singer; Montreal, Quebec
*2007 Canada Winter Games; Performer; Whitehorse, Yukon
*2007 Native Folklore Show; Co-MC; Whitehorse, Yukon
*2006 Dawson City Music Festival; Co-MC; Dawson City Music Festival Society
*DP..S Colonial Cabaret; Lead Actor; Sto:lo Nation Fundraiser, N Vancouver, BC;
Dir: Frank Moher
*Bareskins xxxndn Cabaret; MC; Vancouver IMAGeNATION Film Fetival
*Children of the Rainbow; Lead Actor/Singer/Dancer; Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival
*2003 & 2005 Vancouver; Co-MC; Aboriginal Art & Culture Celebration Society;
National Aboriginal Day Celebrations
*Stand Up Comedy/Improv; Cash Creek Charlie; Partner: Sharon Shorty (Gramma Susie);
various venues
*Raven..s Tale Theatre; Lead Singer/Drummer/Actor; Prod: Lee Francouer, Raven..s Theatre Co.,
Co-Host; Whitehorse, Yukon
*Heart of a Distant Tribe; Leading Actor; Nakai Theatre, Whitehorse, Yukon;
Lead Singer/Drummer; Dir: Carol Grey-eyes
*MC; Commissioner General of Canada's Banquet; Whitehorse, Yukon
*Deslin Khwan Dancers; Lead Singer/Drummer/Dancer; Various Venues and Locations
VOICE OVER
*My Own Private Lower Post; Video; DGA Productions
*Anash, The Legend of the Sunrock; Television; APTN
*Blah Blah Blah; Video; NFB Our World
*The End; Video; NFB Our World
*Commercial; Radio; Environment Canada
*Documentary; Video; Arctic Athabaskan Council
*Commercial; Television; Out On Screen Commercial, Showcase
*Documentary; Television; Out On Screen Pridevision Documentary
*Commercial; Radio; Raven..s Tale Theatre, Raven..s Theatre Co.
PRODUCING
*My Own Private Lower Post; Co-Producer: Video; DGA Productions
*Our City Our Voices; Associate Producer: Video; National Film Board of Canada
*Chez D's / Sunbox; Producer: Video/Stage; DGA Productions
*Children of the Rainbow; Producer: Video/Stage; Out On Screen, Executive Producer
DIRECTING
*My Own Private Lower Post; Co-Director: Video; 2008 imagineNATIVE Film Festival
*The End; Director: Video; 2006 Toronto imagineNATIVE Film Festival
*Chez D's / Sunbox; Director/Stage Manager: Video/Stage; Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival
*Children of the Rainbow; Director/Stage Manager: Video/Stage; Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival
*Susie & Charlie; Co-Director: Stage; Partner: Sharon Shorty
*Raven..s Tale Theatre; Assistant Director: Stage; Prod: Lee Francouer
*Heart of a Distant Tribe; Assistant Director (Singing/Dancing): Stage; Nakai Theatre
*Deslin Khwan Dancers; Director: Stage; Various Venues and Locations
WRITING
*My Own Private Lower Post; Co-Writer: Video; 2008 imagineNATIVE Film Festival
*The End; Co-Writer: Video; 2006 Toronto imagineNATIVE Film Festival
*The Giant Owl & the Old Woman; Writer: Stage; Society of Yukon Artists of Native Ancestry
*Chez D..s / Sunbox; Writer: Video/Stage; Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival
*Children of the Rainbow; Writer: Video/Stage; Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival
*Commercial; Co-Writer: Radio; Raven..s Tale Theatre, Raven..s Theatre Co.
*Susie & Charlie at KFC; Co-Writer: Television; Beyond Words, APTN
PANELS / COMMITTEES / PROGRAMS
* Yukon Filmmaker Fund Jurist, 2008; Yukon Film Commission, Whitehorse, Yukon
* Yukon Film Advisory Committee; Yukon Film Commission; Whitehorse, Yukon
*19th International 2-Spirit Gathering; Workshop Presenter; Fort Quepelle, Saskatchewan
*Yukon Arts Centre Board; Board Member; Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT
*New Voices from an Ancient Culture; Panelist; 2006 Performance Creation Canada Conference
*Aboriginal Media Arts Award Jurist, 2006; Canada Council for the Arts
*Arts in the Communities Panelist; 2006 Yukon Arts Summit
*Yukon Advanced Artist Award Jurist, 2005; YTG Arts Section
*ReD HoTt Series; Programmer; 2005 IMAGeNATION Film Festival
*Selection committee member; 2005 IMAGeNATION Film Festival
*Media & Repatriation Panel; Moderator; 2004 Haida Repatriation Conference
*On a Shoestring Panelist; 2004 Out On Screen Queer Film Festival
*Video Scholarship Award Jurist; 2004 Out On Screen Queer Film Festival
TRAINING
*Our City Our Voices Video Training: NFB Pacific/Yukon, Vancouver, BC - 2004
*First Nations Theatre Training, Carol Greyeyes: Nakai Theatre, Whitehorse, YT - 2001
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