Chic Choc !
Chic Choc ! was a Canadian French-language TV magazine for teenagers which aired on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network for three non-consecutive seasons, hosted by Aboriginal singer-composer-producer Christian Laveau and actress Mélanie Napartuk, and directed by Québec-born but Ontario-based TV produced/director Léa Pascal. The show shown the teenage life of young Aboriginal teenagers of Quebec, by going through interviews, testimonials and short biographies. In 2008, the show won a Prix Gémeaux for Multiculturalism, however, original producer Attraction Images, who first created the show along with TV producer Léa Pascal, lost interest to do a second season, causing the show to go on hiatus. But a year later, Christian Laveau, one of the two hosts, decided to self-produce the show through his Wendake, Quebec-based company, Andawa Productions, and thus, retrieved the rights from Attraction Images in order to do so. The now redesigned show returned on the-air in 2009 and was renewed a second year in 2010, this time with co-executive producer Joanne Couture. The show then ended permanently, but the show website remained active. After Chic Choc ended, Laveau remained active in television production through Andawa Productions and produced a TV documentary series named La Vie est Hockey, still for APTN, which aired in 2013. Also in 2013, he recorded an album of original Aboriginal-language songs called Sondawka with the help of musician-producer Gilles Sioui.