Grape Soda in the Parking lot / How to Lose Everything

This exquisite animated short film has been featured at 12 international festivals so far. It’s like watching a painting come to life.

Done with oil pastel animation by Inuk artist Megan Kyak-Monteith, it paints the childhood memories of Taqralik Partridge over how English caused the loss of her grandmother’s Scottish Gaelic and her father’s Inuktitut languages.

It’s part of How to Lose Everything, an Indigenous series of animated films here.

About Megan Kyak-Monteith, here.

Grape Soda in the Parking Lot is the fifth and final episode in the series of Indigenous animated short films, How to Lose Everything. The story behind the series, here.

With 12 festivals and counting, Grape Soda in the Parking Lot has been on big screens around the world and is now available on YouTube and on on CBC Gem.

Directed by @mk.monteith and Taqralik Partridge
Written and performed by Taqralik Partridge
Music by Inge Thomson