Jean-Luc Kanapé is an Innu activist and actor from Canada, most prominent as a caribou conservationist.[1] A researcher for the Pessamit Innu Band council, he is involved in efforts to track and monitor the population of caribou in the Pipmuacan region near Pessamit and Baie-Comeau.[2]
In 2021 he received an emerging leadership award from the First Nations Guardians Gathering, an organization of indigenous environmentalists and conservationists.[3]
He had his first acting role in the 2021 film Nouveau Québec,[4] for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.[5]
In 2024 he appeared in François Péloquin's film The Thawing of Ice (La fonte des glaces).[6]
References
edit- ^ "In Canada’s boreal forest, one man works to save the caribou". Borneo Bulletin, November 24, 2022.
- ^ Marie-Laure Josselin, "Le gardien des atikuet". Ici Radio-Canada, April 24, 2021.
- ^ Josianne Bérubé, "Jean-Luc Kanapé remporte un prix soulignant le leadership autochtone". Le Manic, June 19, 2021.
- ^ "Jean-Luc Kanapé dans Nouveau-Québec : « une réconciliation entre les deux peuples »". Ici Radio-Canada Première, March 26, 2022.
- ^ "Le film québécois Viking obtient 13 nominations aux prix Écrans canadiens". Ici Radio-Canada, February 22, 2023.
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "La fonte des glaces en salle le 22 mars". Films du Québec, January 26, 2024.
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