Gorgeous Trailer for ‘Four Souls of Coyote’ Native American Animation
by Alex Billington
July 31, 2024
Source: YouTube
“Nothing is eternal, but the Earth and the mountains.” Gebeka has posted an official US trailer for an indie animation film titled Four Souls of Coyote, debuting in US theaters starting this weekend. The film first premiered last year at a few other film festivals, and it also just played at the 2024 Annecy Film Festival this year. Four Souls of Coyote is actually a Hungarian production from a Hungarian animation director named Áron Gauder, though telling a distinct story about Native Americans. They worked with Charles Cambridge on the script, and cast voice actors from America & Canada, along with hiring several Native musicians for music in the film. In Four Souls of Coyote, Indigenous teenagers confront an oil pipeline project, which is located just downhill from their ancestral land. The grandfather evokes the ancient tale of their Creation, reminding all of us that we need to find our place in the great circle of creatures. Starring Lorne Cardinal, Danny Kramer, John Eric Bentley, Clé Bennett, Priscilla Landham, Stephanie Novak, and many others. This animation style is gorgeous, I dig the imagery & energy of this footage. And it has good reviews.
Here’s the official trailers (+ posters) for Áron Gauder’s Four Souls of Coyote, direct from YouTube:
“This film honours the wisdom of a humiliated and crushed nation. Four Souls of Coyote is an alternative and more modest creation myth, in which the human being is neither the top creature of nature nor the king of the world, but only one of all the creatures. Surprisingly, these archaic myths depict the interrelations of the world quite similarly to modern scientific results. The former represents the only alternative to a capitalist society… ‘As long as the grass grows,’ the Native Americans once said, and they meant eternity. They did not know it might be endangered in the future. Earth has tolerated everything so far but its strength is reducing quickly. We can only save it together.” –Director Áron Gauder
We are slowly destroying Earth because we humans think we are special. Native populations have always known that we are just a small part of creation. The story is about our shared responsibility for each other and Earth. Set in the present day, Native American protesters confront the crew of an oil pipeline project, located just down the hill from the land of their ancestors. The grandfather evokes the ancient tale of their Creation myth, reminding all of us that the challenges facing humanity are universal, and that we need to find our place in the great circle of creatures. Four Souls of Coyote, also known as Kojot Négy Lelke in Hungarian, is directed by Hungarian animation filmmaker Áron Gauder, making his second feature after the animated film The District previously, plus many other short films. The screenplay is written by Géza Bereményi and Áron Gauder. Produced by Réka Temple. This first premiered at the Shanghai Film Festival & Arizona Film Festival last year. Cinemon Ent. debuts Gauder’s Four Souls of Coyote in select US theaters starting August 2nd, 2024 this summer. For more info, visit the film’s official site. Who wants to watch?
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