Laura Rietveld
Laura Rietveld is a filmmaker and emerging documentary writer. Bound by themes of identity, family, and the human-nature connection, Rietveld’s work has appeared in English, Inuktitut, and French. Her first documentary, Okpik's Dream (2015) won the Rigoberta Menchú Award at Présence autochtone, Montreal First Peoples’ Festival. She was also laureate of the Prix du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Work by an Emerging Artist in Montréal in 2015. Her first music video, Broke Down Ski’Tuuq, was nominated for Best Music Video at the Native American Music Awards in 2018. Her latest feature documentary, The Family of the Forest (2022), selected for First Pitch at Forum RIDM in 2018 and workshopped with Sundance Collab in 2021, has been nearly seven years in the making. Rietveld was not always a filmmaker. In 2010, frustrated by a lack of diverse and meaningful stories told by mainstream media, Laura resigned from a corporate media career. Laura holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business and a BA in History from Queen’s University, both Ontarian institutions. She now lives in rural Quebec with her young family and chickens, surrounded by the nature that nourishes her.
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The Family of the Forest
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Gérard and Catherine left Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of Gaspésie, Quebec. Fifteen years later, as their three boys have grown up, what will become of this way of life?
The Family of the Forest
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Gérard and Catherine left Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of Gaspésie, Quebec. Fifteen years later, as their three boys have grown up, what will become of this way of life?
The Family of the Forest
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Gérard and Catherine left Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of Gaspésie, Quebec. Fifteen years later, as their three boys have grown up, what will become of this way of life?
The Family of the Forest
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Gérard and Catherine left Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of Gaspésie, Quebec. Fifteen years later, as their three boys have grown up, what will become of this way of life?
