Paul M. Rickard
Mushkeg Media’s president Paul M. Rickard is an Omuskego Cree from Moose Factory in Northern Ontario. For the past ten years, he has been working as a producer, director and cameraman in collaboration with independent production companies and organizations such as Nutaaq Media Inc., Wildheart Productions, Wawatay, CBC North and the National Film Board of Canada. In 1994, he went south to Montreal to train as a camera operator with the National Film Board of Canada. In this capacity, Rickard did cinematography on several NFB documentary films for broadcast, including Multiple Choices in 1995 (Alison Burns), and First Nation Blue in 1996 (Dan Prouty). In 1996, he wrote, shot and directed his first film entitled Ayouwin: A Way of Life about a trapper in Moose Factory, Ontario. In 1997, he directed Okimah focused on the knowledge handed down by Cree hunting masters. In 1999, he directed and co-produced Finding My Talk, a pilot for the a 13 part series of the same name that followed.
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