Living with Bigfoot
The year is 2045. Large cities are uninhabitable. Extreme environmental devastation resulting from centuries of disrespect and neglect and worldwide pollution and have pushed the scattered humans left…
Living with Bigfoot
The year is 2045. Large cities are uninhabitable. Extreme environmental devastation resulting from centuries of disrespect and neglect and worldwide pollution and have pushed the scattered humans left into the wild spaces. Even in the brush of Manitoba's vast prairies, those who remain must wear air filtration masks at all times. Just a few hours breathing the yellow fog of unfiltered air is enough to poison the body. ISHKODE is a strong-willed Ojibwe woman who has always lived on her home reserve of Nookai-Noodin (Gentle Wind) First Nation. After the death of her companion SAM, Ishkode follows her only remaining instinct - survival. Ishkode's cheap, general-issue mask is breaking down, and any uncontrolled and excessive breathing wears the mask's filters out faster. Ishkode has seen enough suffocation to make an effort to keep her emotions in check. Speaking, taking deep breaths while running, or even crying are the fastest ways to die besides being killed for the little you have. On Ishkode's first night alone, a stranger stumbles upon her camp. NIIFE, a Nigerian climate refugee who is searching for her sister in the remote part of Northern Manitoba she calls "Paradise." Ishkode quickly realizes that although Niife is no threat, she doesn't speak or understand any English. Ishkode tries to ditch Niife, but using body language, Niife offers Ishkode her pristine mask for a few hours a day in exchange for food and the safety of an ally. Ishkode's failing health motivates her to take the deal. The women's tenuous arrangement works well until a destructive force starts ripping through the reserve - a Deaf man who calls himself ODIN. In this new world, Odin's other heightened senses give him an advantage in navigating the bush. Odin had been vulnerable and bullied his whole life. Having lost his loving family to the yellow fog, almost all of Odin's empathy has been drained. With his skills giving him a survival advantage, Odin spends his days hunting down anyone left and stealing their masks. Yet as much as he strives to be the last man standing, Odin longs for connection. Forced off the reserve by Odin's aggression, Niife draws Ishkode off the familiarity of the reserve to run for their lives through the open prairies, exposed with few places to hide. The land itself is beginning to rebel against human neglect with strange weather and mutated animals, making the women's journey all the more difficult. With the yellow fog of poisonous air and Odin ever on their heels, Ishkode and Niife must learn to communicate with, trust, and help each other find "Paradise," which may or may not exist. What does exist is the drive to live and to hope.
Living with Bigfoot
Comedy
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The year is 2045. Large cities are uninhabitable. Extreme environmental devastation resulting from centuries of disrespect and neglect and worldwide pollution and have pushed the scattered humans left into the wild spaces.
Even in the brush of Manitoba's vast prairies, those who remain must wear air filtration masks at all times. Just a few hours breathing the yellow fog of unfiltered air is enough to poison the body. ISHKODE is a strong-willed Ojibwe woman who has always lived on her home reserve of Nookai-Noodin (Gentle Wind) First Nation.
After the death of her companion SAM, Ishkode follows her only remaining instinct - survival. Ishkode's cheap, general-issue mask is breaking down, and any uncontrolled and excessive breathing wears the mask's filters out faster. Ishkode has seen enough suffocation to make an effort to keep her emotions in check.
Speaking, taking deep breaths while running, or even crying are the fastest ways to die besides being killed for the little you have. On Ishkode's first night alone, a stranger stumbles upon her camp. NIIFE, a Nigerian climate refugee who is searching for her sister in the remote part of Northern Manitoba she calls "Paradise." Ishkode quickly realizes that although Niife is no threat, she doesn't speak or understand any English.
Ishkode tries to ditch Niife, but using body language, Niife offers Ishkode her pristine mask for a few hours a day in exchange for food and the safety of an ally. Ishkode's failing health motivates her to take the deal. The women's tenuous arrangement works well until a destructive force starts ripping through the reserve - a Deaf man who calls himself ODIN.
In this new world, Odin's other heightened senses give him an advantage in navigating the bush. Odin had been vulnerable and bullied his whole life. Having lost his loving family to the yellow fog, almost all of Odin's empathy has been drained.
With his skills giving him a survival advantage, Odin spends his days hunting down anyone left and stealing their masks. Yet as much as he strives to be the last man standing, Odin longs for connection. Forced off the reserve by Odin's aggression, Niife draws Ishkode off the familiarity of the reserve to run for their lives through the open prairies, exposed with few places to hide.
The land itself is beginning to rebel against human neglect with strange weather and mutated animals, making the women's journey all the more difficult. With the yellow fog of poisonous air and Odin ever on their heels, Ishkode and Niife must learn to communicate with, trust, and help each other find "Paradise," which may or may not exist. What does exist is the drive to live and to hope..