Carol Geddes
Carol Geddes was born and grew up in Teslin. She completed a university degree in English and Philosophy at Carleton in 1978 and did graduate studies at McGill in Montreal. She became a successful filmmaker and spokesperson for the Inland Tlingit. She has produced more than twenty-five videos on the lives and culture of First Nation people in Canada. Geddes is a producer at Studio One of the National Film Board and has taught other filmmakers at the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has been a Director of the Yukon Human Rights Commission, the Yukon Heritage Resources Board, and the Women’s Television Network Foundation, and was the first northerner and first Indigenous person to be a Director of the Canada Council.1)
Geddes’s first major film, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, won a Silver Medal for Educational Documentary in San Francisco.2) Geddes created, wrote and directed two seasons of Anash and the Legacy of the Sun-rock for APTN television and they garnered an international Rocky Award for Best Youth Program as well as the Japan Prize for the accompanying web site. She also wrote and directed the Gemini-nominated documentary Picturing a People and the animated film Two Winters. Geddes was appointed for a three-year term on the Yukon College Board of Governors in 2012.3)