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About Dennis Allen:
From a long line of ancient Inuvialuit and Gwich'in storytellers, Dennis Allen is a bona fide raconteur. With a slew of awards, and a hat full of accolades, Dennis Allen was born to entertain.
Followed by a screening of:
DIR. DENNIS ALLEN, 2006, NWT/YT | 66 MIN
Screening sponsored by Jazz Yukon
This feature-length documentary pays tribute to CBQM, the radio station that 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 Gwich'in community of 800 souls.
Recommended for all ages.
Selected by guest curator, Vivian Belik, as part of Yukon Film Society’s 40th anniversary celebration of Yukon filmmaking and presentation