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Urban Nation

A filmmaking partnership between Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon.

Productions Include
1996 A Nation is Coming
2000 Blood River
2005 The Tunguska Project
2005 Future Nation (Co-Production with Big Soul)
2005 Group of Seven Inches
2007 Shooting Geronimo
2007 Robin's Hood

Kent Monkman

Gisèle Gordon

Gisèle Gordon was born in London, England and educated in Canada. She is a filmmaker, story editor and programmer. She directed the feature-length documentary, The Tunguska Project., which uses Cree theatre director Floyd Favel’s physical journey from Saskatchewan, Canada to the site of a mysterious explosion in Tunguska, Siberia as a metaphor for the mystery and struggle of creative process. Her short works include Girls With Opinions, a subtle critique of media influence on public opinion, shot at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, 2001 and the short impressionistic documentary, sugar , shot at one of the few remaining working sugar factories in Barbados describing the background of the sugar industry and thereby the history of slavery on the island. She co-directed (with Kent) Group of Seven Inches and Robin's Hood of the Miss Chief Share Eagle Testickle trilogy. Gisèle is a programmer for the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and has programmed for the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival since 2002. She curated a programme of Canadian films for the 2004 Salekhard Northern Nomadic Film Festival, Russia. She is Vice-Chair of the board of directors and a programmer for the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and is a past Secretary of the board of the Images Festival in Toronto.