MEET BEAU DICK: MAKER OF MONSTERS

Directed by NATALIE BOLL AND LATIESHA TISITLA FAZAKAS

Date

August 13, 2019

About Project

DIRECTOR

NATALIE BOLL AND LATIESHA TISITLA FAZAKAS

COUNTRY

CANADA

RUNNING TIME

92 mins

YEAR

2017

LANGUAGE

English

ABOUT THE FILM

Meet Beau Dick gives an intimate look into the life of one of Canada’s greatest artists. He was a Kwakwaka’wakw carver from Alert Bay, a small remote village on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. Beau Dick’s remarkable masks have been celebrated across the global art scene as vibrant expressions of West Coast Indigenous culture and a sophisticated crossover into the contemporary art world. Dick had an unprecedented ability to tap into the collective memory of his people and breathe new life into age – old traditions. Beau’s celebrity status called attention to the injustices done to his people and the environment.