SGAAWAAY K’UUNA Edge Of The Knife

Directed by Gwaai Edenshaw & Helen Haig-Brown
Produced by ISUMA (Atarnajuat: The Fast Runner)

Premiered at TIFF 2018, TIFF Top 10, BEST OF VIFF
Leo Award for Best Costume Design, Best Feature Film - Athena Theny
CAFTCAD Award for Best Costume Design - Athena Theny

Celebrated as the first Haida language film ever made, this folk horror story is set in the 1850’s on the remote archipelago of Haida Gwaii off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.  Sgaawaay K’uuna tells the cultural story of a man’s descent and metamorphosis into becoming a supernatural wild man (Gaagiixiid in Haida), and the community that brings him back to humanity.

Costumes were all woven, dyed, and sewn custom for the film with the expertise of master Haida weavers.  Designed in consultation with the Haida Nation.

Actor Portraits courtesy of Georgie Lawson.