“Northern Feathers” follows a group of Indigenous women on a transformative journey to create their own regalia and dance in a cultural event. Participants and project staff share their deeply personal experiences of cultural reclamation and Indigenous community-building from a harm reduction perspective.
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SHELTERED PERSPECTIVE FILMS presents:
“Northern Feathers: Love, Culture, Harm Reduction”
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director & producer JASON S. CIPPARRONE
executive producer LES HARPER
editor JASON S. CIPPARRONE
camera operator IAN MARACLE
original score & music ANSLEY SIMPSON
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featuring the northern feathers dance troupe: MELANIE BROWN, ALLISON FRANCIS, CHRISSY KEWAYOSH, DAKWAAKIN DICK, DELORES COLLINS circle singers ISAIAH CADA, ISIAH MACFARLANE, DAN SECORD, LES HARPER, with ELDER WANDA WHITEBIRD
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program coordinators LES HARPER and AMANDA LEO
program facilitators NICHOLE LEVECK and NAZARENE POPE
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The development of the film was supported and co-led by South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC).
Production of this video has been made possible through a financial contributttion from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.

©Sheltered Perspective Films 2023

In this episode, Lorraine discusses her experience as an outreach worker for Sanctuary Toronto, and her hope that people become more curious about the social policies that lead to homelessness, and ultimately premature and preventable death. At a time of immense loss, Lorraine, to echo Mariame Kaba, is focused on hope as a discipline, and the belief that current realities can and should be better.

Despite the constant call to shelter in place, within Tkaronto/Toronto, more than 8,000 people remain unhoused. Generation Homeless is a series dedicated to the crises that rampant real estate speculation created across Turtle Island; particularly as lived and experienced by youth.

Dedicated to Chris Vanhartskamp
Featuring Lorraine Lam
Directed and produced by Jason S. Cipparrone
Producer Amanda De Lisio
DOP/Editor/Colour Jason S. Cipparrone


Special thanks to Kyle Laurin and Liam Peters

In this episode, Chris discusses his “skydive through life” wherein his premature removal from the child welfare system resulted in his first experience of homelessness at sixteen. He has been perpetually homeless ever since and is desperate to secure a more permanent home for him and his dog, Casper.

Despite the constant call to shelter in place, within Tkaronto/Toronto, more than 8,000 people remain unhoused. Generation Homeless is a series dedicated to the crises that rampant real estate speculation created across Turtle Island; particularly as lived and experienced by youth.

Featuring Christopher
Directed and produced by Jason S. Cipparrone
Producer Amanda De Lisio
Producer Dale Tidy
Cinematographer Kyle Laurin
Editor & Colour Jason S. Cipparrone
Audio & second camera Brad Ardley
Audio processing Michael McDonnell

In this episode, Adrianna discusses the “eternity of death” that is settler colonialism. From the child welfare system, homelessness to premature death, she is candid and poised in her description of state-sanctioned violence and the intergenerational trauma that has attempted to define her life as a Two-Spirit Indigenous person.

Despite the constant call to shelter in place, within Tkaronto/Toronto, more than 8,000 people remain unhoused. Generation Homeless is a series dedicated to the crises that rampant real estate speculation created across Turtle Island; particularly as lived and experienced by youth.

Directed and produced by Jason S. Cipparrone
Producer Amanda De Lisio
Cinematographer Sara Cornthwaite
Produced for CBC Creator Network 2021

In this episode, Amy discusses her experience of homelessness in Toronto amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Her experience is shaped by colonial violence—specifically the residential school system, child welfare and addiction—but she has retained optimism for a future life more liveable for her and her three-year-old child.

Despite the constant call to shelter in place, within Toronto, more than 8,000 people sleep inches apart—and these are the fortune few. Generation Homeless is a series that takes an intimate look at the impact of the unhoused crisis within Canadian cities; particularly as lived and experienced by youth.

Directed and produced by Jason S. Cipparrone

OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

Modern Thunder Society Presents "MUTATIONS" - Grand Analog featuring Posdnuos. 

Starring: Nathan Leppky, 
Director: Odario
Cinematographer: Jason S.C
Grip/Camera Assistant: Daniel J. Dwyer

©2018 Grand Analog Music.

21 Entertainment Group INC. presents - Ryland James "Good To You"

Starring: Ryland James, 
Director: Jason S.C
Cinematographer: Adrian Vieni
First A.D: Daniel J. Dwyer
Grip/Camera Assistant: Scottie Watt

©2018 Jason S.C.

Filmed in 2017 in Toronto. This music video was contracted by Vaness Legacy for her new single "Hoping & Waiting".

Directed by: Jason Cipparrone
Cinematography: Jason S.C
Editor: Jason S.C
First A.D/Producer: Daniel J. Dwyer

©Jason Cipparrone 2017.

Pop Guru. presents - Grand Analog's "Love is a Battlefield"

Starring: Grand Analog
Director: Jason S.C
Cinematographer: Jason S.C
First A.D: Daniel J. Dwyer
Editor: Jason S.C

©2018 Jason S.C.

Pop Guru. presents - Grand Analog's "Love is a Battlefield"

Starring: Cayley Jensen
Director: Jason S.C
Cinematographer: Jason S.C
First A.D: Daniel J. Dwyer
Editor: Jason S.C

©2018 Jason S.C.

This is a film I made for Labatt Breweries of Canada for Goose Island Brewhouse Toronto & Highland Hop Yard in 2017.

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Directed, Edited, DOP by: Jason Cipparrone

Assistant: Chris Fitzsimmons

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©Jason Cipparrone 2019

Produced for the Canadian Opera Company in 2017.
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Directed, edited by: Jason Cipparrone
Animation: Juliana Eye
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©Jason Cipparrone 2019

This is part of a series of films produced for YaYA Foods Corp of Toronto, Ontario. The films were made for their newly launched website.
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©Jason Cipparrone 2019

This is part of a series of films produced for YaYA Foods Corp of Toronto, Ontario. The films were made for their newly launched website.
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©Jason Cipparrone 2019