ABOUT US

Terre Innue is an Indigenous production company based in Wendake.

Since being founded in 2010 by Ian Boyd and the late Réginald Vollant, Terre Innue has produced quality projects in documentary and fiction for all types of media and platforms. Its objectives are to promote and foster the development of an Indigenous media industry in order to enhance the cultures and languages of the First Peoples, as well as to contribute to the training of the next generation of Indigenous media professionals.

BACKGROUND

TERRE INNUE – TELLING OUR HISTORY

It was in 2009, around the fiction feature film project Mesnak, that Innu producer Reginald Vollant, Innu businesswoman Josée Rock, and Montreal producer Ian Boyd met for the first time. This occasion led to the birth of Terre Innue, an independent, Innu-owned, audiovisual production company located in Maliotenam. Its mission: to showcase the Innu culture and its traditions, to promote the Innu-aimun, and to employ new digital formats to tell the stories of the First Peoples of Quebec while contributing, through the various projects, to employment and professional training within the community. While doing so, Réginald Vollant wished to situate the First Peoples in their own history, as well as in the history of the world. Terre Innue would then be the tool to achieve those objectives; a platform for creation, for training and participation, for cultural engagement, and for positive change.

Building on the success of their collaboration on Mesnak, the producers and their ally since 2011, Andrée-Anne Frenette, undertake the production of the award-winning documentaries Innu Nikamu: Resist and Sing (2017), the story of the music festival in Maliotenam taking place on the foundations of a former residential school; Du teweikan à l'électro (2018), an introduction to Indigenous music; Tipatshimun (2020), an initial professional podcast training with CKAU Radio; and Je m'appelle humain (2020), a sensitive portrait of poet Josephine Bacon and an exploration of her relationship with the land of her ancestors.

At the same time, they are developing new productions: Nitassinan, a feature-length documentary on the history of the Innu nation and its relationship with the land; Dans un territoire près de chez vous, a 13-episode adventurous encounter with the 11 Indigenous peoples of Quebec on their territories; and Laissez-nous raconter, a vast transmedia project whose goal is to decolonize the history of the First Peoples of Quebec. 

Réginald Vollant, who always led his projects at Terre Innue with an unwavering love for life, his people, and his community, left us in 2018. He remains irreplaceable.