By TRT Staff with files from Janet Rogers
Two Haudenosaunee from Six Nations, both living on the west coast of the Turtle, brought their talents together as media artists to help celebrate CKRZ FM’s 25th Anniversary this weekend.
Producer Janet Rogers and Director Jackson TwoBears pitched a documentary idea to the National Screen Institute to attend their two-week intensive doc-making bootcamp.
Their idea was to document the history of native radio in North America. However, the concept proved to be too broad to be covered in a 10-minute documentary. It was then Jackson TwoBears suggested they focus their documentary on Six Nations CKRZ FM – The Voice of the Grand.
When Rogers followed up with acting station director, Sabrina Saunders, she learned CKRZ was marking 25 years of being an official radio station. “That’s when everything fell into place,” said Rogers.
2Ro Media has already conducted interviews in the pre-production stage of their film and will be returning for principal production this month from July 23rd– August 7th bringing with them a second camera person Jessie Marie Anthony, a Capilano College Film Student also from Six Nations.
They also enlisted the talents of Six Nation’s ‘Thru the Red Door’ soundman Shane Powless. You will see them gathering footage at the Six Nations Music Festival and Grand River Pow Wow as well as at various locations around the rez collecting B-Roll for the documentary
Keep listening to CKRZ FM as you may hear an invitation for community members to call in or come into the station to lend your voice and memories about CKRZ FM.
Community members may be included in the film, due to air on APTN in March 2016. The film is titled ‘NDNs on the Airwaves’ and will include interviews from many of the artists from Six Nations who’s careers have been helped by having their music played on the station such as Derek Miller, Murray Porter, and Logan Staats.
2Ro Media is looking for archival photos, film, audio tape, news clippings etc. which best documents the history and importance of the station. If you have any audio, video or visual materials of this nature, please contact Producer Janet Rogers at 2Romediainc@gmail.com for information on where to submit.
