Meet Beau Dick “Maker of Monsters“

This film, in production, is a full-length documentary about the remarkable artist Beau Dick. The hallmark of a truly great artist is the ability to give form to the intangible. Tapping into the collective memory of his people and turning their greatest fantasies into reality, Beau Dick is one such artist. An enigmatic carver of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations, Beau’s eclectic masks have been celebrated across the global art scene as vibrant expressions of West Coast Native mythology. But the line where artist ends and society begins is constantly blurred, and with the commercial aspects of his work often overshadowing its cultural connections, the deeper matter of who Beau and his people are ends up pushed to the wayside. Looking to his past for answers, Meet Beau Dick strives to unearth the factors that have made Beau who he is today -- his upbringing, his struggles with identity -- and like a carver chipping away at a block of wood, bring something clearer out of the woodwork. As Beau reconn