WINNIPEG FREE PRESS: MANITOBA DOCUMENTARY WINS AWARD

A documentary co-produced by two sibling filmmakers has picked up a national award. The film — Treading Water: Plight of the Manitoba First Nation Flood Evacuees — was co-produced by Wookey Films and Nüman Films and was written and directed by the brother-and-sister team of Janelle Wookey, 28, who lives in St. Boniface, and Jérémie Wookey, 26, a West End resident. The film won Best Short Documentary at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto on Oct. 24, which was the doucumentary’s first festival screening. It first aired on APTN in May and on CBC in August. Pictured: Clint Beardy looks over a piece of land on Lake St. Martin First Nation that was fully submerged in water during the flood of 2011.