Dennis Allen
Inupiat/Gwich’in filmmaker and storyteller Dennis Allen premiered his first film, Someplace Better, at the 2001 Sundance Festival, and later won imagineNATIVE’s Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award for CBQM (2009), his big-hearted tribute to a radio station known as the “moccasin telegraph,” located in the Gwich’in community of Fort McPherson. Crazywater (2013), in which he explores historical, colonial and intergenerational factors behind Indigenous substance abuse, received an Honourable Mention at Vancouver’s DOXA Festival. Allen was co-creator of Cashing In (2009-2014), an episodic TV series set within the world of an Indigenous-run casino.
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CBQM
Duration: 2h12
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The radio station CBQM operates out of Fort McPherson, a small town about 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Through storytelling and old-time country music, filmmaker and long-time listener Dennis Allen crafts a nuanced portrait of the "Moccasin Telegraph," the radio station that is a pillar of local identity and pride in this lively northern Teetl'it Gwic...
CBQM
Duration: 2h12
Subscription access
The radio station CBQM operates out of Fort McPherson, a small town about 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Through storytelling and old-time country music, filmmaker and long-time listener Dennis Allen crafts a nuanced portrait of the "Moccasin Telegraph," the radio station that is a pillar of local identity and pride in this lively northern Teetl'it Gwic...
