Ervin Chartrand

Ervin Chartrand is a Canadian and Pine Creek First Nation director, writer and producer.

Personal life

Ervin Chartrand is a Métis/Ojibwe from Pine Creek First Nation Camperville, Manitoba, Canada.

Career Chartrand first began his career in film in 2003, after enrolling in Winnipeg's Aboriginal Broadcast Training Initiative, sponsored by the Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre. In 2006, he won the Reelworld Film Festival, Reel World Award for Outstanding Canadian Short Film for Patrick Ross (2006). He was invited to direct this short film by the National Film Board of Canada for the movie series First Stories, the Manitoba (Volume I). Patrick Ross also won the 2006 Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal. In 2017, Other Side of The 49th: The Garry Sawatzky Story was nominated for the Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Documentary History & Biography.

Filmography