THE COLONY

Toronto Film Festival, Top Ten Canadian Films of 2007

Directed by Jeff Barnaby

(Fiction, 2007, 24 min)

A bi-racial ménage a trois drenched in surrealist urban skank.  Maytag, a

reservation displaced Mi’gMaq, latches onto the only other Indian within

light years of the city only to have her snatched away by his drug dealer

and friend.  Sadistically lovesick and drug addled, Maytag launches an

insecticide on the cockroaches that have colonized his trailer convinced

that they helped steal his fiancé.  Heart broken and thoroughly crushed,

he turns to his only friend for solace, his chainsaw.  A demented allegory

on miscegenation, the plight of modern native Canadians and their affinity

for self-destruction.

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Jeff Barnaby was born and raised on the rural Mi’gMaq reserve of Listuguj Quebec.  A multi disciplined artist, he has won several awards for his artwork, poetry, short stories and films.  His work provides a bare knuckled view of the post colonial Indian and the world they live in.  Jeff Barnaby’s first short film, From Cherry English, won 2 Golden Sheaf awards and played in dozens of festivals including Sundance, Tribecca, Fantasia, Vancouver International Film Fest and the Atlantic International Film Fest. The Colony, Jeff Barnaby’s second short is a gritty depiction of deception, desolation and decay. Born of an imaginative script and proficiently executed, this powerful film witnesses cockroaches and chainsaws wreak havoc during one man’s descent into madness.

EyeSteelFilm was founded by veteran documentary filmmakers Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin. The company is dedicated to using cinema as a catalyst for social and political change. Our mandate is to develop and create cinema that empowers people who are ignored by mainstream media.

World Premiere:

2007 Toronto International Film Festival

Languages:

English, Mi’gMaq

Staring:

Glen Gould as Maytag

Kaniehtiio Horn as Myriam

Kent McQuaid as Jackson

Mike Tsar as Criddle

Directed, Written & Edited by:

Jeff Barnaby

Producer:

John Christou

Executive producers:

Daniel Cross, Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Rorhbach

Music:

Tom Waits & The Black Keys

Director of Photography:

Michel St-Martin

Contact:

Sales: halima@eyesteelfilm.com

educational: education@eyesteelfilm.com

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