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9th ANNUAL FILM + MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL October 15-19, 2008 www.imagineNATIVE.org A B Starring
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Staff 5 Venues & Box Office 6 Schedule 8 Special Events 10 Welcome Reception 11 Sponsors 12 Acknowledgements 14 Message from imagineNATIVE 16 Greeting Letters 18 Mediatheque & Radio Lounge 23 Radio Works 24 New Media Works 26 Youth Activities 28 Special Screening at the NFB 29 Performance Art 30 Installations 22 Opening Night Screening 37 Film & Video Screenings Thursday, Oct. 16 32 Friday, Oct. 17 52 Saturday, Oct. 18 62 Sunday, Oct. 19 68 Closing Night Screening 71 2008 Awards 73 Workshops & Panels 74 Index 82
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401 Richmond Street West, Suite 349 Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8 Canada Tel: +1.416.585.2333 Fax: +1.416.585.2313 [email protected] Left to Right: Sage Paul, Kerry Potts, Rebeka Tabobondung, Aaron Sykes, www.imaginenative.org Danis Goulet, Lisa Charleyboy, Violet Chum
Board of Directors Staff Jason Ryle (Chair) Managing & Development Director: Kerry Potts Gisèle Gordon (Vice-Chair) Executive Director (Maternity Leave): Kerry Swanson Marcia Nickerson (Treasurer) Artistic Director: Danis Goulet Charlotte Engel (Secretary) Festival Director: Rebeka Tabobondung Eileen Arandiga Events & Marketing Coordinator: Sage Paul Shane Belcourt Programming Coordinator: Lisa Charleyboy Denise Bolduc Guest Services Coordinator: Aaron Sykes Kathleen Meek Administrative Assistant: Violet Chum Candace Wilde Volunteer & Front of House Coordinator: Amy Rouillard Print Traffic Coordinator: Siue Moffat Advisors Youth Outreach Coordinator: John Hupfield Marisha Roman Audience Development Coordinator: Lisa M. VanEvery Technical Director: Eyan Logan Patrons Technical Manager: Sean Rogers Roberta Jamieson Event Assistant: Miles + Shaneeka Melanson Rhonda Kite Event Photographer: S. Turner, Nadya Kwandibens Frank Meawasige Laura Michalchyshyn Design Team Merata Mita Festival Creative: Terry Lau, beehivedesign.com Alanis Obomsawin Illustration: Wes Lowe - Sharpshooters Inc. Bill Roberts Photography: Keesic Douglas, keesicphotography.com Carla Robinson Web Design: Twig Design, twigdesign.ca N. Bird Runningwater Lisa Steele Programming Team Kim Tomczak Gisèle Gordon Patrick Watson Danis Goulet Margaret Zeidler Michelle Latimer Jason Ryle Jesse Wente
Publicity Ingrid Hamilton GAT 508 – 355 Longsdale Road Toronto, Ontario M5P 1R5 Canada www.gat.ca 5 BOX OFFICE INFO TICKET PRICES
DAVENPORT Tickets and festival passes for the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival are available online, by phone, or in person. Ticket sales begin Wednesday, Sept 24 at 10am. 1 FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE
DUPONT ENUE RD AV 2 AL GREEN THEATRE All-Access Festival Pass $100 Student/Senior $60 3 A SPACE GALLERY 9 Opening Night Screening (includes after-party) $12 5 7 Student/Senior $10 4 BAILEY FINE ARTS BLOOR Closing Night Screening (includes awards celebration) $12
5 BLOOR CINEMA 12 2 13 Y 1 Student/Senior $10 YONG E BA Regular Screenings $7 6 HARD ROCK CAFÉ Workshops and Panels FREE HARBORD 7 HOLIDAY INN MIDTOWN êkâya-pâhkaci [ee-guy-uh-puck-a-chee] (don’t freeze up) by Cheryl L’Hirondelle 8 NFB MEDIATHEQUE 11 admission: $5, All-Access Pass-holders: FREE COLLEGE 9 NATIVE CANADIAN CENTRE Please note: Internet and phone tickets are subject to services fees of $4.50 per order for Internet tickets, $3.50 10 A 4 per order for phone tickets, and $2.00 per order for in-person advance tickets. Tickets purchased in-person from REVIVAL
10 THURST ADIN A October 15 – 19 are not subject to additional service fees. All prices include GST. Major credit cards, debit, and BA AUGUST DUNDAS SP cash are accepted advance methods of payment. Major credit cards and cash are accepted methods of payments 11 ROYAL CINEMA
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RICHMOND . for lost or stolen passes or tickets. A limited number of seats are available for each screening; Pass-holders and 3 8 Complimentary Ticket-Holders must arrive at least 20 minutes prior to the screening to ensure seating. SH AW ADELAIDE JOHN ST LANSDOWN E DUFFERIN DOVERCOUR T OSSINGTO N KING Admittance to screenings is restricted to those 18 years of age or older, with the exceptions of:
Thursday, October 16: Voices of Tomorrow Youth Program, 11:00AM (p. 36) Kanesatake: 270 Years of Resistance, 10:30AM, 1:30PM (p. 29)
Friday, October 17: FESTIVAL VENUES Club Native, 10:30AM, 1:30PM, 7:00PM (p. 29)
1 Festival Box Office 7 Holiday Inn Midtown ONLINE TICKETS Manulife Centre (main floor, north entrance) 280 Bloor Street West 55 Bloor Street West (North side of Bloor, 2 1⁄2 blocks east of Spadina) www.imagineNATIVE.org (Southeast corner of Bloor and Bay) 416.968.0010 Tickets on sale online October 1 – 19 416.967.1528 Box Office Location and Dates 8 NFB Mediatheque 2 Al Green Theatre 150 John Street Manulife Centre Miles Nadal JCC (Northwest corner of John and Richmond) Tickets on sale, in-person or by phone September 24 - October 19 Main Screening Venue Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm 750 Spadina Avenue 9 Native Canadian Centre of Toronto 55 Bloor Street West (Southwest corner of Spadina and Bloor) 16 Spadina Road Tel: 416.967.1528 (West side of Spadina, 1⁄2 bock north of Bloor Street) 3 A Space Gallery Bloor Cinema October 15 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110 10 Revival 506 Bloor Street West (South side of Richmond, 1⁄4 block east of Spadina) 783 College Street Opening Night screening tickets on sale at theatre 1 hour before screening (South east corner of College and Shaw) 4 Bailey Fine Arts Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre 243 College Street, Suite 500 11 Royal Cinema October 16 - 19 (South side of College, 1⁄4 block west of Huron) 608 College Street 750 Spadina Avenue (North side of College, west of Clinton Street) Tickets on sale at theatre 1⁄2 hour before each screening 5 Bloor Cinema Royal Cinema Opening Night Screening Venue 12 Toronto Free Gallery October 19 506 Bloor Street West 1277 Bloor Street West 608 College Street (North side of Bloor, 1⁄2 block east of Bathurst) (South side of Bloor, 1⁄2 block east of Lansdowne) Closing Night screening tickets on sale at theatre 1⁄2 hour before screening
6 Hard Rock Café 3 Trinity Square Video TICKET AVAILABILITY 279 Yonge Street 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376 When a screening is sold out, there are usually a number of “rush” tickets available at the theatre. Not all (at Yonge-Dundas Square) (South side of Richmond, 1⁄4 block east of Spadina) ticket-holders may attend and the remaining seats are sold, just before the screening, to those waiting in the Rush Line. This line forms at least 15 minutes before show time at the theatre box office. Pass-holders and Complimentary Ticket-holders must be at the theatre at least 20 minutes prior to the screenings to ensure seating. 6 7 FESTIVAL WORKSHOP & SCREENING SCHEDULE Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. The Hard Rock Café, 279 Yonge St. Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. West The Royal Cinema, 608 College St. Revival, 783 College St. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave.
WORKSHOPS Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 15-Oct 16-Oct 17-Oct 18-Oct 19-Oct
10:00 am 10:00am - 11:45am 10:00am - 11:15am 10:00am - 11:45am RAPID RELEASE: HOW CAN INTERNET WHAT’S UP DOC? DOCUMENTARY BRING ON THE BLING! AND ALTERNATIVE DISTRIBUTION PITCH COMPETITION (pg xx) EXPLORING CREATIVE AND 11:00 am METHODS EXIST WITH TRADITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES CLASS DISTRIBUTION (pg xx) (pg xx)
12:00 am 12:00pm - 1:45pm 11:30am - 12:45am 12:00pm - 1:30pm HAROLD GREENBERG SHOW ME THE DRAMA! ONE ON ONE WITH PRODUCER SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP PITCH COMPETITION FOR LISA MEECHES (pg xx) 1:00 pm (pg xx) DRAMATIC WORKS (pg xx)
2:00 pm 2:00pm - 3:45pm 1:45pm - 3:00pm MEET THE BUYERS: WHO WALKING THE LINE: DOES BUYS WHAT? (pg xx) PORTRAYING HARSH REALITIES 3:00 pm REINFORCE NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES? (pg xx)
4:00 pm
SCREENINGS Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 15-Oct 16-Oct 17-Oct 18-Oct 19-Oct
11:00 am - 1:00 pm VOICES OF TOMORROW PIRINOP, MEU PRIMEIRO CONTACTO YOUTH PROGRAM (pg 38) (MY FIRST CONTACT) (pg 62)
1:00 - 3:00 pm 1:30pm - 4:00pm LET MY WHAKAPAPA SPEAK A SHOUT INTO THE WIND MAD MORRO WHEN COLIN MET JOYCE WELCOME RECEPTION (pg.11) (pg 39) (pg 52) (pg 63) (pg xx) Native Canadian Centre
3:00 - 5:00 pm LITTLE CAUGHNAWAGA: SEEDS OF CHANGE SHORTS INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT SHORTS PROGRAM II TO BROOKLYN AND BACK PROGRAM (pg 53) (pg xx) (pg xx) CURATED BY AMALIA CÓRDOVA
5:00 - 7:00 pm INTO THE LOOKING GLASS: EXILE CULTURE SHOCK: SACRED SUNDANCE EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS (pg 55) CURATED BY (pg xx) PROGRAM (pg 42) STEVEN LOFT (pg xx)
7:00 - 9:00 pm OPENING NIGHT SCREENING: à quelle heure le SHORTS PROGRAM I BEFORE TOMORROW (pg xx) CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING: MÉMÉRE MèTISSE and train pour nulle part (pg 56) Followed by Special Panel OLDER THAN AMERICA and RIVER OF NO RETURN (pg 37) TRAIN TO NOWHERE (pg 46) Presentation with PALACE (pg xx) Bloor Cinema Arnait Collective The Royal Cinema
9:00 - 11:00 pm OPENING NIGHT PARTY (pg 10) WELCOME TO ENURMINO! THE LAST EXPLORER THE BEAT (pg xx) CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS Revival (pg 50) (pg 58) The Hard Rock Café CELEBRATION (pg xx) Revival
11:00 pm - 1:00 am THE WITCHING HOUR: LATE-NIGHT SHORTS PROGRAM (pg 60)
8 9 WELCOME RECEPTION DANCE TO THE BERDASHE FREE and open to the public Kent Monkman Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 16 Spadina Road FREE and open to the public Wednesday, October 15, 1:30pm – 4:00pm Wednesday, October 15, 1:30p.m. – 4:00p.m. Native Canadian Centre of Toronto October 14 – 19, 12p.m. – 6p.m. FREE and open to the public 16 Spadina Road October 20 – November 15, Saturdays, 12p.m. – 6p.m., or by appointment Join us at the official imagineNATIVE Welcome Reception, as we launch the 2007 festival at the Join us for a community gathering to celebrate the com- Bailey Fine Arts mencement of the 2008 imagineNATIVE Festival and the 243 College Street, Suite 500 Native Canadian Centre of Toronto with opening prayer from honoured elder Rose Logan. coming together of the international Indigenous arts com- www.baileyfinearts.com munity. Honoured Elder Rose Logan will share an opening prayer, community leaders will share greetings in several Based on an oil painting of the same name by painter and The Welcome Reception is a community gathering, with a focus on the representation, voices, Indigenous languages, and singing and drumming perfor- pseudo-ethnographer George Catlin (1796 - 1872), Dance to and languages of the many nations of Canada, and the coming together of the international mances from special guests. Light food and refreshments the Berdashe is a five-channel video installation that re-imag- Indigenous arts community. will be served. ines a lost honour-dance to the man/woman of the tribe. (For more information see page XX) OPENING NIGHT PARTY imagineNATIVE is committed to the creation and legacy of Indigenous stories and this year we PRESENTED BY ABORIGINAL VOICES RADIO have extended our youth initiatives to contribute to fostering a new generation of young film- FREE to opening night screening ticket-holders and All-Ac- PERFORMANCE ART cess pass holders makers and media arts professionals. We are highlighting youth and language as an important CASTING CALL theme this year, and have young Indigenous filmmakers and aspiring filmmakers from Toronto, Wednesday, October 15, Doors open at 9:00p.m. Terrence Houle Revival FREE and open to the public Winnipeg and communities around Ontario. 783 College Street Friday, October 17 Join us for the launch of the festival at the Revival, following 10a.m. – 3p.m. the opening night screening at the Bloor Cinema. (For Saturday, October 18 more information see page XX) 12p.m. – 4p.m. Trinity Square Video TAKIN’ CHARGE: FILMMAKER PANEL FOR INDIG- 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376 ENOUS YOUTH FREE to youth Through the means of a casting call, Houle imitates the process and power Hollywood perfected to ridicule and critique the Thursday, October 16, 2p.m. – 4p.m. industry’s insensitive attitudes by overturning the typecasts Native Canadian Centre of Toronto they invented and sustain. Houle’s performance not only 16 Spadina Road undoes this convention, it humorously destroys the credibility of Hollywood stereotypes in the process. (For more information Do you have a great idea for a film but are not sure how see page XX) to get it made? Do you think about your future in media, but don’t know what steps to take to get there? This panel Êkâya-pâhkaci [ee-guy-uh-puck-a-chee] (don’t freeze up) is an opportunity for youth to learn from emerging and Cheryl L’Hirondelle accomplished Aboriginal media artists and filmmakers who $5, FREE to All-Access Pass Holders will share how they got their start. Thursday, October 16, 8:00p.m. SPECIAL SCREENINGS AT THE NFB Toronto Free Gallery MEDIATHEQUE 1277 Bloor Street West FREE and open to the public In this work, Cheryl L’Hirondelle stages a performance NFB Meditheque, 150 John Street, at Richmond presented under an adaptable traveling tent from where she relates and offers information to the audience using her body, Kanesatake: 270 Years of Resistance voice and graffiti. (For more information see page XX) Thursday, October 16: 10:30a.m + 1:30p.m. Followed by a very special reception THE BEAT PRESENTED BY ASTRAL MEDIA RADIO with Alanis Obomsawin Featuring Derek Miller, Kinnie Starr and Ghostkeeper $7, FREE to All-Access Pass-Holders Club Native Friday, October 17: 10:30a.m, 1:30p.m. + 7:00p.m. Saturday, October 18, Doors open at 9:00p.m. Hard Rock Café 297 Yonge Street INSTALLATION WORKS A night of Canadian-Indigenous musical talent, showcasing the HOW: ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE best from established and up-and-coming artists at the Hard “HOLLYWOOD INDIAN” Rock Café. (For more information see page XX) FREE and open to the public CLOSING AWARDS CELEBRATION September 25 – October 15 PRESENTED BY BIG SOUL PRODUCTIONS Trinity Square Video Hosted by Actor and CBC Radio Host Darrell Dennis 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376 FREE to closing night screening ticket-holders and to All-Ac- cess pass-holders. October 17 – November 21 A Space Gallery Sunday, October 19, Doors open at 9:00p.m. 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110 Revival 783 College Street Receptions and Artist and Curator Talks Friday, October 17 Join us for the Closing Night Awards Celebration where the 5p.m., Trinity Square Video winners of the 2008 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 7p.m., A Space Gallery will be announced. (For more information see page XX) This exhibition explores the legacy of one-dimensional Thank you to the jury members who have dedicated many depictions of Native North Americans developed in film, hours to the selection of imagineNATIVE’s 2008 award winners. art, and literature that have become accepted as authentic in the nation’s consciousness. (For more information see 10 page XX) 11 SPONSORS
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12 13 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TRAILER CREDITS
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival would like to thank our public and foundation We’d like to recognize each of the amazing talents who helped make imagineNATIVE’s trailer possible: partners for their ongoing support: Karla Hartl, Sylvie Lacroix (Canadian Heritage); Ian Reid, Louise Profeit-LeBlanc, Gerri Trimble, Michèle Parody Concept Prop Assistant Stanley, Noël Habel, Sandra Bender, Kelly Langgard, Guy Charbonneau (Canada Council for the Arts); Shane Belcourt and Duane Murray Rebeka Tabobondung John Brotman, Sara Roque, Pat Bradley, Mark Haslam, Myles Warren, Carolyn Vesely, Natalie De Vito, Lisa Wöhrle (Ontario Arts Council); Claire Hopkinson, William Huffman (Toronto Arts Council); Robert Sweeting Directed by Key Make-up Artist and Special Effects (Ontario Ministry of Tourism); Paul Roch, Nicole Saunders (Trade Routes); Ernest Labreque, Michael Shane Belcourt Summer Faith Garcia O’Byrne (Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade); Patricia Jarosz, Alex Sosa (Telefilm Canada); Nancy Martin, Eileen Meawasige (Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment & Training); Mima Cassola Cast Additional Make-up Artists (Ontario Ministry of Culture). Indian Jane: Gail Maurice Marlena Kaesler Mr. Smith: Michael C. Newsome Trason Fernandes We would also like to send a special thank you to our corporate partners and individual donors: Yoga Woman #1: Leanne Bishop Becky Treblin Sarah Crawford, AJ Popko, Kim Rapagna (CTV Globemedia); Rob Braide, Sylvie Morissette, Rebecca Yoga Woman #2: Kristen Covers Motohara Ken Shrophire (Astral Media Radio); Karen Clout, Lauren Wilson, Stephen Finney (Canwest); Wanda Bradley, Ron Suter, Angie Lee (NBC Universal); John Galway, Andrea Langford, Genevieve Parent (Astral Media Stunt Double Costume Supervisor The Harold Greenberg Fund); Valerie Creighton, Betsy Chaly, Ahpy Bokpé (Canadian Television Fund); Indian Jane Double: Cosette Derome Sage Paul Nancy Boyle, Alison Gee-Liphardt, Shelagh O’Donnell (CBC) Andrew Johnson (CBC Newsworld); Wayne Clark, Bonnie Rockthunder, Cheryl Slater, Monique Rajotte, Desiree Single (APTN); Stan Ford, Mark Stunt Coordinator Costumer Branch, Kim Aitchison (Deluxe); Cynthia Hicken, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk (IsumaTV); Lynda Flint Tecumseh Eagle Lisa Charleyboy Yuen, Kimberley Perdue (Movieola); Sherry Lawson (Casino Rama); Mary McCran (Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation); Sadia Zaman, Michelle Jones (Women in Film and Television – Toronto); Jamie Hill Stunt Principals First Camera Assistant (Aboriginal Voices Radio); Gary Williams (SAY Magazine); Stephanie Buchack, Becke Gainforth (NOW Janitor Woman: Alicia Tuner Wayne Peltier Magazine); Cecilia Konney, Gail Thomson (Vision TV); Michelle Siu (National Post); Cynthia Tommasi, Kung-Fu Businessman: Emerson Wong Peter Vamos (Playback); Justin Lovell (Frame Discreet); Sebastjan Henrickson (Niagara Custom Lab); Key Grip and our individual donors Elizabeth Anne Meek, Robert Meek, Shannon Meek, Peter White, Lindsay Knight, Stunt Performers Keesic Douglas Don Felstead, and Jacquie P. Carpenter. Nick Alachiots, Darryl Scheelar Neil Davison, Steve Shackleton Additional Grip And a BIG thanks to our indispensable colleagues and community partners: Regan Moore, Craig Snoyer Dave Shilling Simon Northwood, Bryan Thomas Eva Tabobondung Chief Brian Laforme, Elder Rose Logan, Marisha Roman; Ingrid Hamilton, Charlene Coy (GAT Publicity); Cheryl Quiacos, Alan Vrkljan Sharon Clarke Terry Lau (Beehive Design); Ryan Rice; Roy Mitchell, Aubrey Reeves (Trinity Square Video); Vicky Moufawad-Paul, Rebecca McGowan (A Space Gallery); Steven Loft (National Gallery of Canada); Doina Key Rigger Sound Designer Popescu (Goethe-Institut); Bruce Bailey, Gillian Atkins (Bailey Fine Arts); Elizabeth Weatherford, Amalia Steve Shackleton Jordan O’Connor Córdova (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian); Lisa Steele, Kim Tomczak, Wanda Vanderstoop, Deirdre Logue, Erik Martinson (Vtape); Ben Donoghue, Karl Reinsalu, Renata Mohamed Rigging Key Boom Operator (Liaison on Independent Filmmakers of Toronto); Chanelle Routhier, Nathalie Courville, Moira Keigher, Nick Alachiotis, Simon Northwood Malinda Francis Kristine Collins, Cindy Witten (National Film Board); Larry Frost, Nancy Jocko, Lana Morissette, Stacia Regan Moore, Alan Vrkljan Loft (Native Canadian Centre of Toronto); Adam Garnet Jones, John Hupfield (7th Generation Image Additional Boom Operator Makers); Shane Smith (Spafax Canada); Rachel Fulford (Blueprint Entertainment); Laura Milliken, James Original Music Alejandro Verbel Kinistino and everyone at Big Soul Productions; Greg Woodbury, Ross Turnbull (Charles Street Video); Jordan O’Connor Mike Maryniuk (Winnipeg Film Group); Robin Smith (Kinosmith); Penny McCann (SAW Video); Harmony Rice (Spirit Magazine); Shannon Cochrane (FADO/Toronto Free Gallery); Darren Dale, Rachel Perkins Cinematography (Message Sticks Film Festival); Sally Riley (Australian Film Commission); Kulbinder Saran, Melissa Adam Makarenko Watson, Scott Caldwell, Connie Walker, Andrew Johnson (CBC); Bird Runningwater (Sundance Film Festival); Liisa Holmberg (Skábmagovat Film Festival); Paul Rickard, Fred Rickard (Weeneebeg Aboriginal Edited by Film and Video Festival); Andre Dudemaine, Mary Ellen Davis (Terres En Vues); Scott Berry, Pablo de Jordan O’Connor Ocampo (Images Festival); Brett Hendrie, Lynne Fernie (Hot Docs); Deanna Wong, Patricia Lee, Christina Sit Yee, Heather Keung, Chris Chin (Reel Asian Film Festival); Rick Harp, Tim Fontaine (Winnipeg Aboriginal Production Manager Film Festival); Sandra Laronde (Red Sky Performance); André Morriseau (NAAF); Everyone at the Urban Sage Paul Shaman Gallery; Eric Goldstein, Rob Gibbons, Tamsynn-Lee Isaacs (Miles Nadal JCC); Joe Saturnino (Revival); Stacey Donen (Royal); Victoria Dobbs (Bloor Cinema) Crystal Watts (Hard Rock Café); Darrell Production Assistants Dennis; Heather Rae; Richard Story; Lisa Meeches, Duke Redbird, Debbie King (Wasauksing); Adrian Violet Chum, Sharon Clarke Kahgee (Saugeen); John Hupfield (Parry Sound High School); Jordan Bighorn (Southeast Collegiate), Sarah Malleau, Kerry Potts Eddy Robinson; Cotee Harper; Theo McGregor; Eva Tabobondung; Marie Gauclet; Amye Annett; Deborah Day; Millie Knapp; Rita Deverell; Alexis Despierres; Benna Brown, Mike Moody (401 Richmond), Stan Prop Master Olthuis (Sharpshooter); Trudy Mascher (Clarke-Way Travel); Sonia Waite (Holiday Inn); 2008 Festival jury Harmony Rice members, and all of our incredible volunteers.
Special thanks to festival founder Cynthia Lickers-Sage and co-founder Vtape.
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It is an honour to welcome you to the ninth annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival!
In the last few years, this festival has grown into a significant event in global Indigenous cinema, and last year our audience numbers more than doubled in size. This success could not have been achieved without the incredible investment, dedication, and passion of a community of supporters, and for this we are truly grateful. There are many artists, staff, board members, programmers, advisors, volunteers, community partners, sponsors and audience members who need to be recognized for making this festival the world-class event it is today. I would also like to send special thanks to CTVglobemedia who have become our presenting sponsor. This kind of long-term investment ensures that new and innovative opportunities are created that foster and showcase the works of Indigenous film Left to Right: Danis Goulet, Kerry Potts, Jason Ryle and media artists in a global context.
This year we are thrilled to present an incomparable program of new works by Indigenous artists from around the world, as well as various panels, performances, installations, and exhibitions. I hope that your time at imagineNATIVE is filled by numerous moments of reflection, amusement, and inspiration. Welcome to the ninth edition of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival! Each year we conduct outreach to rural and diverse communities in order to create a festival that includes the We are proud to present a selection of the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous film, video, radio, new media, many voices of this land. It is my pleasure to welcome the hundreds of individuals who are joining us this year from and installation art from over a dozen countries — including Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, India, Mexico, New the First Nations of Wasauksing, Saugeen, Six Nations, as well as from Manitoba and across Ontario. I hope that Zealand, Sweden, Russia, Venezuela, the USA, and Canada. each of the youth from these communities enjoy the special presentation of youth screenings, mentorships and panels, and that each of our guests will immerse themselves in the best that this festival and this great city have This year’s film selections highlight the incredible achievements and courage of Indigenous women in film. Our to offer. Opening Night premieres two compelling documentaries by Indigenous women directors – one an emerging Canadian artist, the other a rising talent in Australia – that follow the inspiring journeys of two tenacious women. Thank you again to the artists, audiences, sponsors and supporters for believing in imagineNATIVE and for being a The festival will also celebrate two dramatic feature films by women behind and in front of the camera.Before constant source of motivation and inspiration. It has been a privilege being a part of this year’s imagineNATIVE, and Tomorrow is the extraordinary debut feature by the Arnait Video Collective, which will be followed by a special I look forward to seeing you all at the festival. panel presentation with the Igloolik Women’s Collective. Our Closing Night feature, Older Than America, marks the courageous directorial debut by Georgina Lightning. Miigwetch,
As always, we have a packed five-day schedule including two curated programs:Culture Shock, a unique project curated by Steven Loft that focuses on two classic West and East German cinematic interpretations of Indigenous people, followed by Indigenous “responses” in the form of short films; andSouthern Crossroads, an international program featuring Latin Indigenous artists, curated by Amalia Cordova.
We are also pleased to present an exciting new exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal visual and media art entitled Kerry Potts HOW: Engagements with the “Hollywood Indian.” Curated by Ryan Rice and jointly presented at Trinity Square Managing & Development Director Video and A Space Gallery, this exhibit will include the performance Casting Call by Alberta-based artist Terrance Houle. In addition, imagineNATIVE will be presenting the Toronto premiere of Kent Monkman’s latest installation, Dance to the Berdashe.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the tireless efforts of the programming team of Gisèle Gordon, Michelle Latimer, Jason Ryle, and Jesse Wente, who tackle the enormous and difficult task of selecting works for the festival. Special thanks also go to many others including this year’s guest curators, who continue to expand the Hello and welcome again to the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. scope of the festival, and our jury members, who dedicate numerous hours to the awards process. The amazing revolution in Indigenous filmmaking continues and, as always, we have an incredible selection of work Enjoy the festival! for you to enjoy in film, video, radio, and new media. Each year we are astounded by the vision, creativity, and skill of Indigenous artists worldwide.
Now in our ninth year, we owe extended gratitude to many sponsors and community members who have helped to create a vibrant space to celebrate our artists’ works. It is also our pleasure to welcome back Danis Goulet in her new position as Artistic Director.
Danis Goulet On behalf of my peers on the Board of Directors and on behalf of our esteemed Patrons, enjoy the films, enjoy the Artistic Director company, and enjoy the festival.
Jason Ryle Chair, Board of Directors
16 17 The Governor General of Canada I am pleased to extend greetings to the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival as you host your 9th season. Canada’s Aboriginal peoples are instrumental in keeping art alive and flourishing from coast to coast to coast. Whether the style is traditional or contemporary, classic or This annual event has become the largest festival devoted to Indigenous artistic cutting-edge, today’s new and established Indigenous artists are at the vanguard of the expression in North America for emerging and established artists, to showcase to a art scene, making a name for themselves both here and abroad. dedicated audience.
I consider events like imagineNATIVE to be an excellent opportunity for Canadians Not only are works presented to the public, but you provide invaluable opportunities to celebrate the talent for First Nations, Métis and Inuit people. The innovative and for the participants to attend workshops and panel discussions that foster professional stimulating multimedia presentations being offered provide us with a unique perspective development. Networking opportunities abound as programmers and industry that enriches our own. professionals also attend this inspiring and innovative festival.
The artists being recognized at this year’s film and media arts festival are some of the As The Queen’s representative in Ontario, I applaud the Board of Directors, Advisors, finest in their respective fields. I applaud their achievements, and I wish everyone an staff, patrons and sponsors, for presenting this wonderful opportunity for artists and enjoyable and inspiring event. public alike to experience the work of artists from indigenous cultures.
Michaëlle Jean October 2008 David C. Onley
Prime Minister Welcome to the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
It is with great pleasure that I extend my warmest greetings to all those attending the The many cultures and traditions of First Nations peoples are an essential part of our 2008 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. heritage and an asset to all Canadians. Since its inception, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival has built an enviable reputation for presenting works by Aboriginal Over the course of the next five days, visitors will have a wonderful opportunity to view artists that skillfully combine traditional and modern culture. a broad mix of work by established and emerging contemporary Aboriginal artists from across Canada and around the world. For artists, the Festival also includes a series of As Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages and Minister workshops and programs supporting their creative and professional development, and for La Francophonie, I congratulate the organizers of this festival, which encourages us providing them with the tools and exposure necessary to pursue their artistic endeavours to appreciate the talent and creativity of Aboriginal artists. Their work revitalizes both successfully. their own communities and Canada’s media arts scene as a whole.
I would like to congratulate all those displaying their work for their efforts to showcase Bienvenue à l’imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival their talent, passion and cultural heritage through a variety of media. I would also like to commend the organizers of this award-winning event for their commitment to recognizing Les cultures diversifiées et les nombreuses pratiques traditionnelles des peuples des and developing Aboriginal artists, and for bringing Aboriginal arts and culture to the Premières nations constituent une part essentielle de notre patrimoine et une richesse attention of the wider community. pour tous les Canadiens. Depuis sa création, l’imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival a acquis une renommée enviable en présentant des œuvres d’artistes autochtones qui On behalf of the Government of Canada, please accept my best wishes for a memorable marient habilement tradition et culture moderne. Festival. À titre de ministre du Patrimoine canadien, de la Condition féminine et des Langues officielles et ministre de la Francophonie, je félicite les organisateurs de ce festival, qui nous fait apprécier le talent et la créativité des artistes autochtones. Ces artistes, en plus de contribuer à la vitalité de leur communauté, renouvellent la scène des arts médiatiques du Canada.
The Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, P.C., M.P. Bon festival! Ottawa Enjoy the Festival! 2008
The Honourable Josée Verner Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages and Minister for La Francophonie 18 19 A Personal Message from the Premier Boozhoo!
On behalf of the Government of Ontario, I am delighted to extend warm greetings to It is my pleasure to extend greetings to everyone attending the 9th annual everyone attending the 2008 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, a wonderful showcase of Aboriginal artists and their innovative works in film, video, radio, and new media. As an art form, film and media mirror the human experience and offer a glimpse into other cultures. As we celebrate the diversity that has made Ontario strong, we also The festival is an exciting and inspiring celebration of Aboriginal culture. It is have the opportunity to discover new and alternative perspectives on Indigenous issues. wonderful to see our rich storytelling traditions evolve through new forms of cultural Offering a wide variety of films, media and radio programs, imagineNATIVE is an expression. The diversity of ideas and issues represented help to foster a greater outstanding showcase of the talents of Canadian and international Indigenous artists. understanding of the interests and aspirations of First Nations peoples.
Now in its ninth year, this festival not only explores themes that influence Aboriginal On behalf of the Assembly of First Nations, I salute the organizers for their ongoing artists, but also enables audiences to appreciate the vitality of Aboriginal communities commitment to the promotion of Aboriginal arts and culture in Canada and worldwide. within our boundaries and beyond. Best wishes for an entertaining and memorable festival! I would like to thank the dedicated and hard-working staff, volunteers and board members of imagineNATIVE for giving audiences a chance to experience film, video, and new Meegwetch! media from across Canada and around the world, and for giving artists a valuable forum for their work. Please accept my best wishes for an inspiring festival.
Phil Fontaine National Chief
Dalton McGuinty Premier
A Message from the Mayor On behalf of the Métis National Council I would like to congratulate imagineNATIVE on It gives me great pleasure to extend greetings and warmly welcome to everyone attending its 9th annual Film + Media Arts Festival. the 9th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. imagineNATIVE has become a premier venue for indigenous arts and provides an invaluable As an international destination for arts and culture, Toronto is a proud host to numerous showcase for Métis visual artists. It is not only a place for established and respected festivals that originate from the passion and vision of our residents. In its nine years, Aboriginal filmmakers to share their latest works, but also gives new, young artists a imagineNATIVE has taken great strides and experienced immense success as a premier place to be discovered and enjoyed. event for showcasing film, video, radio and new media by Aboriginal artists. This year’s festival promises to build on past success, and I hope all attending enjoy this In a city that celebrates its history and diversity, events such as imagineNATIVE, the largest year’s outstanding program. indigenous film and media arts festival in North America, provide insight, education and entertainment to a wide audience. We are extremely proud of your ongoing commitment Artists and storytellers have always played an important role in the Métis Nation. to promote and preserve Aboriginal cultures and identitues. It is in this spirit that the Métis National Council offers its wholehearted support to imagineNATIVE. I hope it will continue to offer Métis visual and new media artists a place On behalf of Toronto City Council, I congratulate the organizers and all those involved to contribute to the cultural life of their people, and to share it with First Nations, Inuit, in making this event a success. To everyone, my best wishes for an entertaining and Canada and the world. memorable festival. Good luck in the future, and have a great festival. Yours truly, Sincerely,
Clément Chartier President, Métis National Council
David Miller
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The imagineNATIVE Mediatheque The Mediatheque provides a video library with on- demand videotheque facilities allowing Festival It is with pleasure that I extend a congratulatory note to your Board, Patrons and Supported by Delegates to view all works submitted to the 2008 dedicated staff for the success of your 9th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts festival. The mediatheque allows Buyers to preview Festival. By showcasing Canadian and worldwide Aboriginal artists at the international works and offers filmmakers a unique opportunity to context, this festival has been another tool in encouraging understanding and respect promote their work. towards one another and amongst us. The Mediatheque Catalogue is available to Industry I was honoured to address the festival last October, as I strongly believe that it is Miles Nadal JCC Delegates only, upon presentation of their Industry-Pass. through various mechanisms, including film, video and new media that Aboriginals All productions housed in the Mediatheque are listed in can help maintain our culture and language while sharing the ideas and creativity 750 Spadina Avenue, Lower Level of our peoples. Thursday, October 16 – Sunday, October 19 the catalogue along with the film, title, director, country, 10:00a.m. – 7:00p.m. and contact information for each title. The recognition and awards that this festival has received, no doubt has been earned by the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts organizers and just as importantly, by your For Mediatheque access, please check in at the Guest New Media and Radio Viewing Stations supporters. I am encouraged that this momentum and your Festival will continue Services Desk, Miles Nadal JCC Lobby. to shine! The Mediatheque provides computer terminals allowing The Mediatheque is open to festival delegates only and Festival Delegates to view/listen to all new media and radio Sincerely, provides access to the 2008 video library, viewing stations works in the festival. Please find the guide to the new and the Internet. Please note that priority access is media and radio works on page xx. given to Industry Pass-holders, specifically buyers, commissioning editors, acquisition executives, distributors, sales agents, and festival programmers. Mary Simon President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
RADIO LOUNGE
The inspiration and vitality of Aboriginal artists from around the world continue to make the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival a compelling and valuable cultural event. The imagineNATIVE Radio Lounge Miles Nadal JCC, Jacob’s Lounge The National Film Board of Canada was among the very first organizations to produce 750 Spadina Avenue, Main Floor films by Aboriginal directors, and we’ve continued to work extensively with First Na- Thursday, October 16 – Sunday, October 19 tions creators for over four decades – seeking out new and exciting stories and promot- 10:00a.m. – 7:00p.m. ing emerging and established talent. Sit down, enjoy a cup of coffee and a chat with a friend in the imagineNATIVE Radio Lounge. We’re also very happy to once again present the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary The complete roster of this year’s festival radio selections will be played continuously, providing Award, in honour of a pioneering filmmaker and artist. atmospheric entertainment for visitors.
The radio lounge is open to the public and provides access to the 2008 festival radio selections. All programmed radio works are also available for listening on our website at www.imagineNATIVE.org. La créativité et la vitalité des artistes autochtones du monde entier font de Please see page xx for a complete listing of radio programming. l’imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival un événement culturel incontournable.
Au nombre des premiers producteurs de films autochtones, l’Office National du Film du Canada collabore activement avec les créateurs des Premières Nations depuis plus de quarante ans pour raconter des histoires inédites et passionnantes et promouvoir les talents, établis ou émergents.
L’ONF est heureux de décerner cette année encore le prix Alanis-Obomsawin du meil- leur documentaire en hommage à une cinéaste et artiste qui a fait œuvre de pionnière.
Tom Perlmutter Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada Commissaire du gouvernement à la cinématographie et président de l’Office national du film du Canada 22 23 RADIO WORKS RADIO WORKS
AVR Arts Review: Michael Greyeyes Interview Many Rivers Revision Quest: Alcohol Bob Philips Daniel Browning Kim Ziervogel Canada · 26.5 min · 2008 · Radio Canada · 53.5 min · 2008 · Radio Canada · 2007 · RT · Radio
Michael Greyeyes, who is a former Canadian National In Aboriginal culture, the health of a community is often Why is it when Irish people drink, it’s cute...but when ballet member and prominent Plains-Cree actor and equated with the health of its rivers and watercourses. Aboriginal people drink, they’re alcoholics who can’t dancer, is now a Professor at York University specializing In this program we hear artists, writers and performers handle their liquor? Darrell Dennis explores the myths in movement. This interview took place before his work talk about the cultural and personal meaning they derive and realities behind alcohol and the Aboriginal community The Journey (Pimooteewin), the first Cree opera from rivers, lakes and waterholes. with surprising results. It’s a tough subject to examine. choreographed and directed by Greyeyes, which took And even tougher to poke fun at...but Revision Quest place February 2008 at the Jane Mallett theatre in Artist Biography does it. Join Darrell as he finds out if Aboriginal people Toronto. This interview discusses Greyeyes’ approach to are really pre-disposed to alcoholism. It’s a happy half art, training, background, work , and artistic philosophy. Fernando’s Ghost hour that will leave you in high spirits. Daniel Browning The Electric Talking Stick: Amnesty Cafe Australia · 53.5 min · 2007 · Radio Darrell Dennis hosts ReVision Quest. The CBC Radio All radio selections will be available for listening Bob Philips One show plunders the past to challenge misconceptions throughout the festival in the Radio Lounge (page Canada · 26.5 min · 2008 · Radio This radio show discusses the career of the Australian of what it means to be an Aboriginal person in Canada XX) or online at www.imagineNATIVE.org. Radio Aboriginal rights activist Anthony Martin Fernando, who today. The Electric Talking Stick is a show designed to deal passed-on 60 years ago. Born in Sydney in 1864, the son and new media works are also available for view- with issues of interest to the Aboriginal Community of an Aboriginal mother, he was separated from her and Kim Ziervogel has brought positive Aboriginal stories ing to Festival Delegates only in the Mediatheque. where the participants are not necessarily Native. This placed in a White home. He spoke vehemently against to both the mainstream and Aboriginal media for 15 For access to the Mediatheque, please check in episode interviews four people who were connected the Mission School System, describing them as ‘murder- years. With experience in television and film, radio, with the Amnesty Café which took place in May 2008 at the Guest Services desk in the Miles Nadal JCC houses’ and proposed an Aboriginal state in Northern print and the Internet is currently an associate in Markham ON. The topic of the café was Aboriginal Australia, free from British and Australian interference producer at Definitely Not the Opera and the ten-part lobby. For more information see page XX. rights, which was sparked by the imprisonment of Na- under the mandate of a neutral power. He was a vision- series ReVision Quest with host Darrell Dennis. tive leaders protesting the actions of mining companies. ary and a man ahead of his time. Good Medicine Radio Show: Healing from The Plex Show Residential School Abuse “The Aftermath of the Bob Phillips (Mic Mac) is the host and producer for Daniel Browning is a journalist and radio broad- Doug Bedard Indian Residential Schools” Part I + II AVR Arts Review for the past four years. The show caster. He is a descendant of the Minjungbal clan of Canada · 36 min ??? · 2008 · Radio Rita Chretien presents talks and interviews that inform and sup- the Bundjalung nation whose traditional country Canada · 94.5 min · 2007 · Radio port Aboriginal art and artists. He has completed is on the far north-coast of New South Wales, and With his pulse on the latest in the hip-hop scene, Doug a Master’s degree in Fine Art History from York also identifies as a South Sea Islander. He produces Bedard (a.k.a. Plex) spins the best in Indigenous and Healing from Residential School Abuse investigates University and is currently doing his PhD in Indig- and presents Awaye! the Indigenous art and culture global urban music weekly on Aboriginal Voices Radio. the impact of residential school experience by speaking enous Studies at Trent University. program on ABC Radio National, where he has been A mixture of cutting edge cool and old school classics, to five survivors in a candid, explorative manner. Weaved since 1994. The Plex Show is fast becoming one of Canada’s most with country music the survivors discuss their personal Kik-kow-wee-now Askee popular hip-hop radio shows. accounts and their healing process. Shaneen Robinson Australia · 12 min · 2008 · Radio Originally from Edmonton, Doug Bedard (Cree) is Rita Chretien (Cree) began her career in media four an artist and producer now based in Toronto. years ago as the News Director for for CKLB Radio. Kik-kow-wee-now Askee (The Earth Our Mother) is She is currently a health columnist, Music Director a documentary that explores climate change from the and the host of The Good Medicine Radio Show, which perspective of three Indigenous enviromentalists: Chief won the Best Talk Radio Award at imagineNATIVE Oren Lyons, a world-renowned environmental activist in 2007. and member of the Onondaga Nation of New York; William Greenland, a member of the Gwich’in Nation of AVR Arts Review: Norval Morriseau Canada’s Artctic who has traveled the world with his Bob Philips message of environmental concern; and Elder Garry Canada · 26.5 min · 2008 · Radio Raven, a traditional Elder from the Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba also gave words of wisdom for the Norval Morriseau (Copper Thunderbird), the Cree documentary. Robnison received a 2008 Spirit of the founder of the Woodland style of painting, passed away Earth Award from Manitoba Hydro for promoting the on December 4, 2007. This segment is dedicated to his protection of Mother Earth. memory discussing his life and interviewing Joseph McLeod of the Maklak McLoed Gallery in Toronto who Shaneen Robinson (Cree and Gitxsan) is the mid-day discusses his painting techniques. This show also host and community events reporter at NCI FM. She interviews Morriseau’s close friend Gabor Vidas and has also worked as a television news report for APTN introduces his son Christian Morriseau, who is a painter. National News and CTV News Winnipeg.
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Rabbit and Bearpaws Seven Day Wonder http://www.rabbitandbearpaws.com http://www.stormspirits.ca/English/SevenDayWonder/in- Chad Solomon dex.html Canada · 2008 · Website Claude Latour Canada · 2008 · Website Set in 18th-century, colonized North America, Rabbit and Bearpaws is a richly animated series of stories that Seven Day Wonder identifies the seven-days’ calendar follows the adventures of two mischievous Ojibwa as a form of economic, political and social control that brothers as they play pranks and have amazing adventures, has deeply impacted all cultures. Three rows of seven using a traditional Ojibwa medicine that transforms “hot” buttons are identified by titles and images, with them into animals for a short time. Humourous and in- each row of images representing a different time in sightful, the stories are based upon traditional teachings history: the Roman calendar marked by images of the and are structured around The Seven Fires Prophecy planetary system, the traditional Algonkins marked by and The Seven Grandfathers, which include, lessons of images of prayer cards and ancient paintings, and the Respect, Bravery, Love, Wisdom, Honesty, Humility and corporate face of modern day fast food chain portrayed Truth. The interactive experience is enriched through through corporate branding. By interacting, selecting beautifully animated comic strip style storytelling and and “clicking” on a button, a quick-time video is trig- interesting links that reveal character background, gered and plays a recording that presents a narrative blog pages, location details and educational links. A of the seven-day count. The social overtones provide contemporary, interactive experience for the young and a visual commentary on the idea of time and how it the young-at-heart. is measured both naturally and through man-made manipulation. Chad Solomon(Ojibway) has been working as an artist since 2002, and made the leap into main- Claude Latour is an Ottawa-based artist primarily stream comics in 2003. His comic strips have been exhibiting socio-political based themes and other recognized by the Association for Native Develop- works related to his Algonkin roots. Over the past ment in the Performing and Visual Arts, and shares five years, Latour has been producing mixed-media this work with his co-writer, Chris Meyer and the and photo-based works. He holds a Diploma in Fine numerous community elders who helped guide him Arts from Heritage College in Hull and a Bachelor of in the many stories relating to Rabbit and Bear Paws. Fine Arts Degree from the University of Ottawa.
Danewajich http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Danewajich/ Cîpayak Nîmihitowak english/index.html http://apxo.net/newmedia/cipayak/ Gary Oker Archer Pechawis Canada · 2008 · Website Canada · 2008 · Website
Inspired by the return of a Dreamer’s Drum to the Cîpayak Nîmihitowak centers on user action. This web community, this site thematically celebrates the traditions - based piece features a Macromedia Flash animation of the Dane-zaa people by creatively documenting oral containing video of the Aurora Borealis and a photo history, tradition and spiritual teachings. Using an gallery of the artist’s deceased friends and relatives. eclectic blend of audio streams of traditional drumming, The visitor is encouraged to click on an image from the oral storytelling, archival documentary, and topical photo gallery. The Flash animation then analyzes the maps, the viewer is introduced to a long line of Dane-zaa image and re-maps the colours of the Aurora Borealis Dreamers who’ve provided spiritual and practical guidance video to the colours of the image, in effect allowing to the Dane-zaa people for hundreds of years. The the user to witness the journey of the deceased person project is a collaborative effort between Doig River First through the Star World. Visitors to the work will be Nations elders, youth, leaders, ethnographers, linguists invited to upload images of their own passed loved ones and web designers who came together to create a true for inclusion in the work. The website features text multi-media experience that inspires as thoroughly as explaining the cultural context for non-Cree users. it educates. Archer Pechawis is a media-integrated performing Gary Oker is a respected First Nations leader who artist, New Media artist, writer, curator, teacher and holds a Masters Degree from Royal Roads University. dad. He has been creating solo performance works As Chief of the Doig River First Nation, he led since 1984. His practice investigates the intersection his community to negotiations over resource of Plains Cree culture and digital technology. management and socio-economic investment. As a multimedia artist, he has produced, directed and collaborated in numerous projects recognizing the Dane-zaa cultural traditions. His work has screened throughout the world at various festivals and conferences. 26 27 Youth Activities Special Screenings at the NFB Mediatheque
This year imagineNATIVE is pleased to welcome many young visitors from across Ontario, Manitoba, Special Screenings at the NFB Mediatheque and beyond, to participate in the many events and opportunities that engage audiences with the best FREE Admission in Indigenous film and media. Though open to the general public, youth and educators are extended a special invitation to take part in the special youth activities planned this year, including The Youth Co-presented by NFB Program screening at the Al Green Theatre, NFB Mediatheque’s special screenings of Club Native imagineNATIVE and the National Film Board are proud to present two outstanding works by and Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, and Takin’ Charge youth panel. See below or visit the ground-breaking Aboriginal filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin’s now iconicKanehsatake: 270 Years Guest Services Desk or www.imagineNATIVE.org for further information. of Resistance (1993), and Tracey Deer’s Club Native (2007). Each filmmaker’s relationship to their subject infuses these works with sensitivity and an intimacy that is without equal. These documentaries are testaments to how film can shape the landscape of political and social issues, and that teach us important lessons about the history and reality of the land we call Canada.
Voices of Tomorrow: Youth Program Moderator: John Hupfield Thursday Oct. 16 Director, Writer, Artist, and Indigenous youth advocate 11:00a.m. – 1:00p.m. Admission: $7 Shane Belcourt Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance Club Native Al Green Theatre Writer, Director, Pookums (2006), Tkaronto (2007) Thursday Oct. 16th: 10:30am & 1:30pm (followed by a Friday Oct. 17th: 10:30am & 1:30pm 750 Spadina Ave. very Special Reception for Alanis Obomsawin) And in the Atelier at 7:00pm Tracey Deer FREE FREE Takin’ Charge: Filmmaker Panel for Writer, Director, Mohawk Girls (2005), Club Native Director: Alanis Obomsawin Director: Tracey Deer Indigenous Youth (2008) Canada · 119 min · 1993 · Beta SP Canada · 78 min · 2007 · Digital Beta Thursday Oct.16 2:00p.m.-4:00p.m. Adam Garnet Jones In the summer of 1990, an armed stand-off began For the Mohawk people living on the Kahnawake FREE to youth Writer, Director, Cloud Breaker (2006), Small Thing between the Mohawk people of Kanehsatake and Oka, reserve just outside Montreal, there are two unspoken Native Canadian Centre of Toronto (2008) the Québec police and the Canadian army that attracted and unquestioned rules that community lives by: do not Auditorium international attention. When police stormed the Mo- marry a white person and do not have children with a 16 Spadina Road Curtis Beardry hawk barricades and a Corporal was killed, the situation white person. Those who break these rules may suffer Co-Director, Mino Bimaadziwin (Touching the Sky) intensified with the seizure of the Mercier bridge and the loss of their official membership to the community Do you have a great idea for a film but are not sure how (2008) riots breaking out among the residents of Chateauguay. including their right to live there, the loss of their to get it made? Do you think about your future in media, As the helicopters circled overhead, bullets whizzed childrens’ membership and the risk of being shunned by but don’t know what steps to take to get there? This Duke Redbird by at eye level and the hostility escalated, eventually others for having betrayed their Mohawk Nation. In this panel is an opportunity for youth to learn from emerging Senior Guest Artist almost all journalists were either evacuated or forcibly inspiring and groundbreaking documentary, four brave and accomplished Aboriginal media artists and filmmakers Reporter, CityPulse removed. Director Alanis Obomsawin remained without Mohawk women reveal the devastating effects of “mar- who will share how they got their start. Panelists will Writer, They Call Me Chief, The New Ghostdancers a crew documenting this watershed moment in Cana- rying out” of their nation, the conflict between love and tell you about their exciting projects and share their Director, The New Ghostdancers, He Who Looks dian history from behind the Mohawk barricades. After cultural preservation, and having the courage to follow experiences in the Canadian film-industry. imagineNATIVE Upside Down: A Question of Justice a grueling 78 days behind the barricades, Obomsawin your own heart. wants you to think about yourself behind or in front of Associate Producer, Dance Me Outside emerged with a landmark film that was seen around the the camera, and each panelist will be ready to answer world and changed the face of international Indigenous your questions to help you make this a reality! land claims. With powerful immediacy, she that takes us to the frontlines of the confrontation, presents a profound portrait of the Mohawks’ unyielding spirit, Supported by and delves straight to the heart of the age-old struggles between the colonial establishments of Canada and the first peoples of this land. This widely-acclaimed film went on to win 18 international awards. .
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A PERFORMANCE BY FIRST NATIONS ARTIST TERRANCE HOULE Special Premiere Performance by L’Hirondelle’s performance work has been featured in various texts including Caught in the Act: An Cheryl L’Hirondelle We are looking for Stony, Blackfoot, Cree, Ojibway, Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women CASTING NOTICE FOR FIRST NATIONS êkâya-pâhkaci [ee-guy-uh-puck-a-chee] Dene, Navajo, Haida, Salish, Sioux, Métis, Crow, Pawnee, edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder (2001) (Native American or Native) MEN AND WOMEN (don’t freeze up) Micmac, Mohawk, Seneca, Algonquin, Inuit, Cayuga, and Candice Hopkin’s Making a Noise: Aboriginal Artist Terrance Houle’s Casting Call is a new production Oneida (etc.) or anyone of the like. FADO Performance Art Centre presents Perspectives on Art, Art History, Critical Writing and being filmed in Toronto, Ontario. Auditions will be êkâya-pâhkaci [ee-guy-uh-puck-a-chee] (don’t freeze Community (2006). In 2004, L’Hirondelle and Hopkins conducted by the artist. Must have experience as one of the above criteria. up) by Cheryl L’Hirondelle. êkâya-pâhkaci operates were the first Aboriginal artists from Canada to be through an intersection of nomadic site-specificity, visual invited to present work at DAK’ART Lab, as part of the Open casting call for First Nations, Native American, Mé- Auditions will be for roles of Natives playing Non-Natives patterning, language, narrative, movement and rhythm. 6th Edition of the Dakar Biennale for Contemporary tis, Half-breed, Quarter, Indian Princesses and Princes, acting in Native roles. Book your spot now or come out In this work, Cheryl stages a performance presented African Art. In both 2005 and 2006, L’Hirondelle was the Powwow Dancers, Powwow Drummers, 1/8th’s, Rez, for the open casting call! under an adaptable traveling tent from where she relates recipient of the imagineNATIVE New Media Award for City Indians, Aboriginals, Status, Non-Status, Red Indian and offers information to the audience using her body, her online net.art projects: treatycard, 17:TELL and people between 15 and 100, both male and female, Casting Dates and Location voice and graffiti/tagging. The audience, by proximity wêpinâsowina. Young, Middle-Aged and Elders. Acting experience a Friday, October 17, 10am – 3pm (Auditions by appoint- and in accepting her invitation to witness her activities, plus, but not necessary. ment, spectators welcome) ‘comes in from the cold’ and becomes part of her ‘camp’. More information: www.ndnnrkey.net, Saturday, October 18, noon – 4pm (Open auditions, www.performanceart.ca • Traditional, contemporary, bannock experience, Native everyone welcome) The artist would like to acknowledge support from war veterans, horse riding experience, an interest in the Canada Council and BC Arts Council in the bingo, war paint, Indian cars, regalia, black wigs are all Trinity Square Video creation of this work.Cheryl L’ Hirondelle (aka Thursday, October 16, 8pm assets but not necessary 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 376 Waynohtêw, Cheryl Koprek) is an Alberta-born Toronto, ON M5V 3A8 halfbreed (Métis/Cree-non status/treaty, French, Toronto Free Gallery • Any size and shape will be acceptable. We are looking (416) 593-1332 German, Polish) artist and musician. Her creative 1277 Bloor St. West for fit, big, small, tall, hunky, and beautiful, ugly, etc. practice is an investigation of the junction of a Cree $5, FREE to All-Access Pass Holder To schedule an appointment for Friday, October 17, worldview (nêhiyawin) in contemporary time and • Braided hair, long black or short will be acceptable 2008, please contact Aubrey Reeves at Trinity Square space. Since the early 1980’s, L’Hirondelle has created, Co-presented by Video. (416) 593-1332 or performed and presented work in a variety of • Love of nature, animals and outdoors is a must [email protected] artistic disciplines, including music, performance art, theatre, performance poetry, storytelling, • Deep respect for Mother Earth Casting Call is a non-union interactive performance art installation and new media. In the early 1990’s, project. Participation in the project is strictly volunteer. she began a parallel career as an arts consultant • Must know the Four Directions and programmer, cultural strategist/activist, and director/producer of both independent works and • Owners of buckskin loin cloth, breach cloth and projects within national artist-run networks. general hides a bonus
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Emerging artist Walter Kahero:ton Scott was born and raised in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, and currently resides in nearby Montreal. Scott contemplates stereotypes etched in the popular mind’s eye, and challenges their “authenticity” in his portrait series. In reviewing and deconstruct- ing a 1960’s French publication titled Indians! Scott painted portraits of his Mohawk contemporaries on top of the heavily romanticized depictions of Indians of North America. Comically inclined, Scott’s cartoon-influenced real life characters show no commonalities with the Indians they are positioned with, at the same time his “peeps” exhibit disdain, Greg Staats is from Ohsweken, and is currently confusion and an air of embarrassment towards the based in Toronto. He works in photography and iconic representations and expectations (public and video, drawing on a traditional Mohawk restorative private) of identity they confront day to day. aesthetic. In the short film Harold J. Smith, Jay Silverheels, Tonto (2005) artist Staats gracefully bestows honor upon the innovative role model by driving him home, along the 7th line river road on the Six Nations of the Grand River territory, underscored by the soundtrack to Silverheels guest appearance on The Jack Paar Show in 1960. Staats delivery is ephemeral. The isolated drive, shot on home video, incites and rekindles “personal” HOW: Engagements with the “Hollywood Indian” to disseminate the vision of Native artists. Renowned memory to place and to community through an Curated by Ryan Rice and emerging artists Terrance Houle, Greg Staats, Torry encounter far removed from Hollywood Boulevard’s Mendoza, Walter K. Scott, Sarah Sense, Rosalie Favell, Walk of Fame. Co presented by Nadya Kwandibens and Tommy Deer instinctively or intuitively de-contextualize the burdensome invention of the “Hollywood Indian” that stalls our growth as Nations. In its place, our imagination is free to grow.
Artists and their works: This is a single-themed exhibition in two locations. Admission to both locations: FREE Terrance Houle (Blood) is an interdisciplinary media artist whose work includes painting to Trinity Square Video (TSV), September 25 – October 25 drawing, video/film, mixed media, performance, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376 and installation. He contributes Casting Call (2007 Sarah Sense (Chitimacha/Choctaw), was born Monday – Friday, 10a.m. – 6p.m., Saturday, noon – 4p.m. - ongoing) a multi-city community oriented interac- and raised in California and is a practicing artist tive performance conceived and carried out by the currently living in Santa Fe, NM. Sarah acts out Reception, Curator and Artist Talk artist, who instigates the process of an open audition the cultural stereotypes she confronted throughout Friday, October 17, 5p.m. – 7p.m. with a Curator and for Native actors (amateur and professional) vying her life under the influence of Hollywood idealism Artist Talk at 6pm for roles of Natives playing Non-Natives acting in Torry Mendoza, (Mescalero Apache) is a video/film and pop culture. The Sex is in the Mouth, Narrative Native roles. Through the means of a casting call, maker living in Syracuse, NY. He utilizes film and 1 - 4 series (2008) contests the depiction of women, A Space Gallery, October 17 – November 21 Houle imitates the process and power Hollywood digital media to approach various aspects of Native in particular the archetype of the “Indian princess” 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110 has perfected to ridicule and critique the industrie’s American life to contest the negative connotations and her counterpart, “the squaw”, in relation to Tuesday – Friday, 11a.m. – 6p.m., Saturday, noon – 5p.m. insensitive attitude by overturning the typecast they attributed to Native Americans. Mendoza engages white males. The female “Hollywood Indian” stirred invented and sustain. Houle’s performance not only with the Hollywood Indian in his short media works, a sexual energy in the moving pictures that was Joint Reception undoes this convention, it humorously destroys the stirring Tonto (Silverheels) and the Lone Ranger’s cunningly positioned in need of being controlled, Friday, October 17, 7p.m. – 9p.m. (following the recep- credibility of Hollywood stereotypes in the process. one-dimensional dialogue to a pulsating dance beat rescued, and invaded. tion and artist talk at TSV) *Casting Call will take place at the TSV gallery on in Kemosabe Version 1.0 (2008). Mendoza scrutinizes October 17th and 18th (see page 30). the duo’s relationship by remixing and mashing-up In the exhibition HOW: Engagements with the a conversation between the two, revealing a master “Hollywood Indian,” First Nations artists and the * Casting Call is a non-union interactive performance art and servant disposition similar to the disparate re- artworks selected either deconstruct and dispel project. Participation in the project is strictly volunteer. lationships assumed by the nation-states with Native the myths invented by confronting the simplistic nations. He continues to scrutinize and appropriate misconceptions imposed upon the Indigenous collective specific Hollywood films in his other short film. spirit, or extend the discourse beyond Hollywood driven paradigms and expose the alluring influence, dreams and desires for an inclusive and compassionate Hollywood. The installation corrals a multitude of talent brought together
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depict the Indian with passion and integrity. She captures an Indigenous spirit (individual and collective) and resuscitates characters overshadowed by the burden of false impression. Her aesthetic, whether shot in black and white or color, is cinematic. Her portraits carry personal and collective strengths forward and create lasting impressions.
Tommy Deer, (Mohawk) works at the Kanien’kehá: ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Cultural Center as a graphic artist/illustrator. As passed on by the Haude- nosaunee (Iroquois) Deer’s The Creation Story Trailer (2007) packs a powerful punch by introducing the timeless tale of how creation began. The illustra- tions/animation, combined with simple cinematic techniques, come to life and leave you wanting more, indicating that it is time to engage with Hollywood on our own terms. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Rosalie Favell is a photo-based artist. Whose work often draws upon her Curator Ryan Rice, (Mohawk) has worked for the family history and her Métis heritage. Controlling past 12 years within the museum/art gallery milieu the image is how both Hollywood and the industry as an educator, intern and curator at the Iroquois typecast culture, gender, and, to an extent, politics. Indian Museum, Canadian Museum of Civilization, The politics of representation is essential to Favell’s Indian Art Centre (DIAND), Carleton University Art Dance to the Berdashe Igor Stravinsky’s exploration of Primitivism - the ballet four giclee prints; I Awoke To Find My Spirit Returned Gallery and the Walter Phillips Gallery. Rice is a Curated by Steven Loft score Rite of Spring - is remixed into a powerful (1999), Voyageur (2003), I Searched Many Worlds co-founder of Nation To Nation, a First Nations artist Kent Monkman · 2008 · 12 minutes · soundscape by Phil Strong as virile Dandies, from (1999) and Transformation (1999). Favell inserts collective and co-founder and chair of the Aboriginal 5-Channel Video Installation the Four directions, invigorate the Berdashe with the herself into Hollywood productions to break-away Curatorial Collective, a national collective of Aboriginal vitality of their honour dance. Through this reciprocal from the roles “Indians” were casting and favorably curators from across Canada. He has received a Toronto Premiere performative rite, the Dandies and Berdashe renew each imagine what it is like to be portrayed with poise, Master of Arts degree in Curatorial Studies from the other’s spirits. In so doing they not only refute their power and popularity in the public eye. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New Co-presented by obfuscation by colonial forces, but also primitivism’s York and graduated from Concordia University with Urban Shaman Gallery pillaging of Indigenous cultures. Nadya Kwandibens is of Ojibwe and French heritage a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In 2008, Rice will tour his {logo} from the Northwest Angle #37 First Nation. Identifying exhibitions ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Na- Born in St. Marys, Ontario, Kent Monkman (Cree) who mainly with her Ojibwe roots, Nadya is also known tive Land and Oh So Iroquois, and will be opening new October 14 – 19, noon – 6pm works with a variety of mediums including painting, film/ as Makoons and is from the Loon Clan. Her profes- exhibitions in Lethbridge, Toronto and Montreal. October 20 – November 15, Saturdays, noon – 6pm or by video, performance and installation. He has had solo sional practice consists of work in numerous forms appointment exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Walter of media including photography, video production, Phillips Gallery and the Indian Art Centre and has website design and radio. Kwandiben’s photos actively Bailey Fine Arts, October 14 – November 15 participated in various international group exhibitions 243 College Street, Suite 500 including: We come in peace..., Histories of the 416.597.3828 Americas at the Musee d’art contemporain www.baileyfinearts.com deMontreal and The American West at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, England. Monkman has created Based on an oil painting of the same name by painter site specific performances at the McMichael Canadian and pseudo-ethnographer George Catlin (1796 - 1872), Art Collection, and at Compton Verney, UK and has also Dance to the Berdashe is a five channel video instal- made super8 mm versions of these performances that lation that re-imagines a lost honour dance to the he calls Colonial Art Space Interventions. His award- man/woman of the tribe. The Berdashe tradition was winning short film and video works have been screened described by Catlin in his diary as “one of the most unac- at various national and international festivals, including countable and disgusting customs that I have ever met Sundance, Berlin, and the Toronto International Film in the Indian country...and where I should wish that it Festival. His work is represented in the collections of might be extinguished before it be more fully recorded.” the National Gallery of Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Museum London, The Mackenzie Art Gallery, In Dance to the Berdashe the return of the Berdashe the Woodland Cultural Centre, the Indian Art Centre, is triumphantly and sensually interpreted by Miss Chief and the Canada Council Art Bank. A solo exhibition of Eagle Testickle (Monkman’s alter ego) as a powerful and his work was mounted by the Art Gallery of Hamilton in glamorous icon. As her dancers performs, Miss Chief the summer of 2007 and has toured to museums across resurrects another Aboriginal persona obscured by Canada including Art Gallery of Victoria, Museum of colonial history, the Aboriginal Dandy, who was Contemporary Canadian Art, and the Winnipeg emphatically described but unfortunately never painted Art Gallery. by Catlin.
34 Wednesday 7pm | OCT. 15 RIVER OF NO RETURN Opening Night Screening, Bloor Cinema
Presented by River of No Return Director: Darlene Johnson Australia · 52 min · 2008 · Digital Beta English and Yolngu Matha with English subtitles
North American Premiere Mémère Métisse (My Métis Grandmother) “As a child I always wanted to become an actress just Director: Janelle Wookey like Marilyn Monroe. I was told it was ridiculous for a Canada · 30 min · 2008 · Beta SP Yolngu girl to have such fantasies.” Frances Daingangan is a 45 year-old mother of three and grandmother of World Premiere six who was raised within the traditions and laws of her Gupapuyngu tribal culture and lives in a remote For over sixty years, loving grandmother Cecile St. and struggling community in Northeast Arnhemland, Amant has been keeping a deep secret – she is Métis. Australia. She has always dreamed of becoming a Cecile’s granddaughter, Janelle sets out to understand movie star like her idol Marilyn Munroe. When she her Mémère’s denial and playfully plots her own is cast in Rolf de Heer’s acclaimed hit Ten Canoes, mission to open her Mémére’s eyes to the richness of she is catapulted out of her traditional life and onto their heritage. As the two face-off in a battle of the the red carpets of international festivals such as wills, Janelle soon realizes that her Mémère will not Cannes. With a newfound determination, Frances is be easily convinced that being Métis is something to now forced to face the harsh reality that pursuing a be proud of. In this heart-warming and extraordinary career as an actor in the world of the balanda (white journey, Janelle’s mischievous and persistent prodding culture) may mean forsaking her traditional lifestyle. of her grandmother reveals a generation’s legacy of This remarkable documentary captures the incredible shame and the profound courage of the human spirit cultural gap that exists between the western to overcome it. industrialized world and remote Indigenous communities, and the spirit and determination of Emerging documentary filmmaker Janelle Wookey one woman going up against insurmountable odds (Métis) recently received a diploma in Creative in order to follow her dreams. Communications as a TV Broadcast Major and is currently the co-host of the Friday Night Flick on the Darlene Johnson (Dunghutti) is one of Australia’s Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). most promising Indigenous filmmakers whose award-winning documentaries and dramas include Stolen Generations, nominated for an International Emmy in 2000, Following the Rabbit Proof Fence and Crocodile Dreaming. She is currently writing her first feature film Obelia to be produced by Philip Noyce.
Join us as we celebrate the opening night of the 9th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival at Revival. (more information see page 10) 36 37 Thursday 11am | OCT. 16 Thursday 1pm | OCT. 16 VOICES OF TOMORROW YOUTH PROGRAM Let My whakapapa speak PROGRAM Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
Mino Bimaadiziwin: Touching the Sky March Point I Still Hear My Granny Speak Let My Whakapapa Speak
Divercity March Point I Still Hear My Granny Speak Let My Whakapapa Speak Director: Shaneeka Melanson Filmmakers: Cody Cayou, Nick Clark, Tracy Rector, Director: Mariel Belanger Director: Tainui Stephens Canada · 4 min · 2008 · Beta SP Annie Silverstein, Travis Tom Canada · 5 min · 2008 · Beta SP New Zealand · 77 min · 2008 · Digital Beta USA · 53.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP World Premiere Ontario Premiere Maori and English with English subtitles Canadian Premiere This bold and spirited declaration explores urban A grandmother’s endearing melodies are etched in Canadian Premiere Aboriginal “anti-identity”. For centuries the Swinomish people have relied on fishing memory, echoed through generations. and clamming as a way of life. However, the nearby Let My Whakapapa Speak follows the life and times of Shaneeka Melanson wrote, directed, and produced presence of two large oil refineries has threatened Mariel Belanger (Okanagan Nation) is an emerging Iritana Te Rangi Tawhiwhirangi, an extraordinary woman this project through the 7th Generation Image Makers this age-old tradition, devastating the water, land, and filmmaker and recent graduate of the Enowkin who emerged in the post-war era in New Zealand as one summer video project. This is her first video. overall health of the community. Told through the eyes Centre’s National Aboriginal Professional Artists of the leaders behind the ground-breaking Kohanga Reo of three teenage boys, who use humour and candidness training program. Maori language revitalization movement. Kohanga Reo Urban Spirits to confront the politicians behind the scene, they travel is based on the simple but powerful principle of total Director: Angela Gladue to Washington to make a movie about the environmental immersion in Maori language and values. Twenty-five Canada · 6 min · 2008 · Beta SP destruction facing their community. As the boys experience years later, the effects of this program have been a need to tell their story, they produce an incredibly profound – children can now grow up and do all of their Ontario Premiere empowering and youthful coming of age story. schooling in the Te Reo Maori language. The program’s success has inspired and attracted the attention of Dynamic and inspiring hip-hop duo, Urban Spirits, March Point is an intergenerational collaborative of international groups. This insightful documentary reveal the profound influence of dancing on their lives. project, produced by Longhouse Media. The docu- chronicles the early days struggles of the burgeoning mentary was created by Tracy Rector (Executive movement and presents an inspiring portrait of an un- Angela Gladue (Cree), aka B-Girl Lunacee, is one- Director and Co-founder of Longhouse Media), and compromising woman on the forefront of change. half of the hip-hop and break-dancing duo, Urban Native Lens youth filmmakers Nick Clark (Confeder- Spirits. She is from Edmonton, Alberta and educates ated Tribes of Grand Ronde) Cody Cayou (Swinom- Tainui Stephens is a producer and director whose youth through dance. ish), and Travis Tom (Swinomish). recent work includes co-producing Vincent Ward’s features films River Queen and Rain of the Children Mino Bimaadiziwin: Touching the Sky and directing Maori Television’s highly successful Directors: Curtis Beardy, Tashina Monias Anzac Day broadcasts NaRatou Mo Tatou. Stephens Co-presented by Canada · 13 min · 2007 · Beta SP is also a Board Member of the New Zealand Film Commission. Ontario Premiere
A group of courageous Aboriginal high school students decide to break the vicious cycle of broken lives and substance abuse, by taking ‘the challenge.’ The bravery of the youth is truly moving in this raw and deeply inspiring documentary.
Curtis Beardy is the co-director, along with Tashina Monias, who are both students at Southeast Collegiate. Curtis hails from Pukatawagan First Nation and Tashina comes from Garden Hill First Nation.
38 39 Thursday 3pm | OCT. 16 Little caughnawaga Al Green Theatre
A Warrior Woman’s Journey: From Six Nations to Oaxaca Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn And Back
A Warrior-Woman’s Journey: Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn And Back From Six Nations to Oaxaca Director: Reaghan Tarbell Director: Audrey Huntley Canada · 57 min · 2008 · Beta SP Canada · 26 min · 2008 · Beta SP Ontario Premiere Spanish and English with English Subtitles The long distance between New York City and the World Premiere Kahnawake reserve outside Montreal is bridged by generations of Mohawks who call both places home. This compelling portrait of modern warrior Doreen Reaghan Tarbell’s personal documentary explores the Silversmith follows her from her community in Six decades-long connection her family shares with a small Nations, Ontario to Oaxaca, Mexico to meet with fellow neighbourhood in Brooklyn, once known as “Little Indigenous communities and activists, and join in their Caughnawaga,” that was home to the first wave of massive protests against governmental injustice. ironworkers who helped build the Big Apple’s skyscrapers. Told by the accounts of the women who lived there, Audrey Huntley (Ojibway) grew up in Calgary before Tarbell reveals the untold story of a unique Mohawk moving to Europe, then Vancouver and Toronto. Her community. first feature documentary Go Home Baby Girl was broadcast on CBC National. Currently living in Brooklyn, first-time documentary filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell (Mohawk) works for the Film and Video Centre of the National Museum of the American Indian.
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40 41 Thursday 5pm | OCT. 16 Thursday 5pm | OCT. 16 INTO THE LOOKING GLASS: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS PROGRAM INTO THE LOOKING GLASS: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS PROGRAM Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
Rider Fairies and Indians Geeka Coda in G Minor
Hunger name that movie eu.tha.na.sia Coda in G Minor Director: Shelley Niro Director: Jenny Fraser Director: Jani Lauzon Director: Cara Mumford Canada · 5 min · 2007 · Digital Beta Australia · 10 min · 2007 · Digital Beta Canada · 6 min · 2008 · Beta SP Canada · 2.5 min · 2007 · Beta SP Canadian Premiere World Premiere The cycle of life is revealed in this poignant film that Ontario Premiere examines choice and responsibility, step by step. Images of agriculture and nature are juxtaposed with ur- Based on cues and excerpts from popular films, this A woman wakes up on a bathroom floor, disoriented interactive trivia game invites the audience to “name ban landscapes to create a collage charting the evolution Jani Lauzon (Métis) is a three time Dora Mavor and confused, with no recollection of how she got there. that movie”, while deconstructing nine colonization of physical and spiritual hunger within our world. Moore nominated actress, a Juno and CAMA nomi- Inspired by the films of Deco Dawson and Maya Deren, techniques through the lens of mainstream cinema. nated singer/songwriter and a Gemini Award win- this stylistic film provides a surreal glimpse into one Shelley Niro (Mohawk) was a fellow at the National ning puppeteer. Lauzon has countless theatre, film woman’s moment of reflection. Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute Artist and curator Jenny Fraser (Yugameh) works and radio credits to her name. (1997), completed a MFA at the University of Western in film and technology. Fraser is the founder of An emerging Métis filmmaker, Cara Mumford tran- cyberTribe Ontario and trained at the Ontario College of Art in , an online gallery that aims to encourage sitioned into filmmaking in 2006 when she attended Toronto. Her films have screened at imagineNATIVE the production and exhibition of Indigenous art. Fairies and Indians the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmaker’s and internationally, including the Sundance Film Director: Christiana Latham 16mm Film School during which she wrote and Festival. Canada · 5 min · 2008 · Digital Beta directed her first short film, No Time Like the Present. Rider Coda in G Minor is Cara’s inaugural attempt at Director: Bear Witness World Premiere working in Super 8. Canada · 3.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Shelley Director: Jerry Thevenet Cultural contrasts are explored in this richly textured World Premiere Canada · 4 min · 2008 · Beta SP film that uses myth and music to create a poetic land- Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan Part II (We Will scape reminiscent of an ancient childhood storybook. Again Open This Container of Wisdom That Stylized Hollywood images of the mainstream world A creative and poignant tribute to filmmaker Shelley Has Been Left in Our Care) refract and reflect against the profile of a young Niro, this experimental-blend of animation, archival Christiana Latham is a multidisciplinary artist of Native Director: Nicholas Galanin Aboriginal man as he sleeps on his city bus commute. footage, and music illustrates the cyclical regeneration American and British decent. She is currently completing USA · 4 min · 2006 · Digital Beta of life in a cinematic celebration of humanity. her Bachelor of Arts studies at the Alberta College of Art Ottawa-based artist Bear Witness (Cayuga) began and Design focusing her talents on animation and film, as A convergence of two dynamic forces meet as electro- Jerry Thevenet is a Labrador Métis filmmaker who making videos while in junior high school and has well as working on a children’s book. beats pound to the steps of a traditional dance. been busy with his multidisciplinary practice ever has created a large body of work as a writer, director, and producer. since a honourable mention for emerging artist at Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut) is a multidisciplinary imagineNATIVE in 2006. Geeka (Water’s Edge) artist who has trained extensively in traditional and Postscript Director: Leena Minifie contemporary approaches to art and pursues them Canada · 6 min · 2008 · Digital Beta both in parallel paths. Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan Part I (We Will Director: Shannon Letandre Canada · 6 min · 2008 · Beta SP Again Open This Container of Wisdom That World Premiere Has Been Left in Our Care) Director: Nicholas Galanin World Premiere Dancer Melina Laboucan-Massimo emanates eloquence USA · 4.5 min · 2006 · Digital Beta as a water steward who moves between worlds – one A young woman contemplates her childhood as she with water and one without. As old and new intermingle, an enthralling dancer’s fluid writes a heartfelt letter reflecting on her relationship movements emanate impressions of timelessness. with someone estranged, but close to her heart. Video artist and freelance producer Leena Minifie (Gitxaala) is a graduate of Capilano College’s Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut) is a Shannon Letandre (Oji-Cree) is currently completing Aboriginal Film and Television Program. multidisciplinary artist who has trained her second BA in Film Production at Concordia extensively in traditional and contemporary University. Previously, she directed Nganawendaanan approaches to art and pursues them both in Nde’ing (I Keep Them in My Heart) through the parallel paths. National Film Board’s First Stories program, which screened at imagineNATIVE in 2006.
42 43 Thursday 5pm | OCT. 16 INTO THE LOOKING GLASS: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS PROGRAM Al Green Theatre
Madness in Four Actions Alice Eaton
The Art of Self Destruction Madness in Four Actions Director: Chris Bose Director: Thriza Cuthand Canada 5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Canada · 8 min · 2008 · Beta SP
Ontario Premiere Ontario Premiere
Discordant images of landscapes and urban environ- Inspired by her own experience, rebel auteur Thirza ments capture how the insatiable energy of creation Cuthand powerfully deconstructs the harsh assumptions intermingles with destruction. of psychiatry with its own weapons, using quotes from the likes of R.D. Laing and Thomas Szasz over a loop of Chris Bose (N’laka’pamux) is a musician and video old fashioned notions of hysteria. artist from Merritt, BC. Thirza Cuthand is a queer Cree bipolar video artist based in Saskatoon, SK. Her groundbreaking and Saviour Complex brave works have been screened at festivals Director: Ariel Smith internationally. Canada · 5 min · 2007 · Beta SP
Toronto Premiere Alice Eaton Director: Amanda Strong Set against a childlike backdrop of cardboard cars and Canada · 12 min · 2008 · Beta SP homemade costumes, this smartly satirical portrayal of girls within the sex trade industry creatively parodies World Premiere stereotypes in this unique and edgy experimental film. On a quest to restore her broken spirit, Alice Eaton finds Ariel Smith (Cree/Ojibway/Roma/Jewish) is an herself caught in a mysterious and revealing under- experimental video artist who has been creating her world. own independent works for the past six years. She has had previous works at imagineNATIVE including Mississauga based artist, Amanda Strong (Métis) has Swallow, which won the Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award a diploma in Applied Photography and is currently for Emerging Talent in 2004. completing her BA in Interpretive Illustration at Sheridan Institute. Alice Eaton is her first film.
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44 45 Thursday 7pm | OCT. 16 à quelle heure le train pour nulle part (train to nowhere) Al Green Theatre
Train to Nowhere
From One Dream To Another à Quelle Heure Le Train Pour Nulle Part Director: Jason Lujan (Train to Nowhere) Canada · 1.5 min · 2007 · Digital Beta Director: Robin Aubert Canada · 78 min · 2008 · Format A little girl journeys from the forest to the city in this French with English subtitles ephemeral portrait of identity constructed through photography and animation. World Premiere
Jason Lujan’s (Apache) work has been screened In his audacious new feature, writer/director Robin throughout Canada and the US. From One Dream to Aubert plays with cinematic form to tell the story of a Another is his third short film, and was awarded the brother searching for his lost twin in India. Poetic and Bronze Experimental Video Award from Worldfest elliptical the film uses flashbacks and hallucinatory Houston International Film Festival. moments to generate an atmosphere of mystery, leaving its interpretation open to debate. Provocative and wholly original, Train to Nowhere is challenging and thought provoking cinema from one of Canada’s rising young filmmakers.
Robin Aubert (Huron-Wendat/Abenaki) is an actor and filmmaker living and working in Montreal. He was nominated for a Genie in 1997 for his role in La Comtesse de Baton Rouge. Train to Nowhere is his second feature.
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49 Thursday 9pm | OCT. 16 WELCOME TO ENURMINO! Al Green Theatre
Welcome to Enurmino!
Sikumi (On the Ice) us to the town of Enurmino, population 314, in the far Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean northeast of Russia, just across the Bering Strait from USA · 15 min · 2008 · Beta SP Alaska. The stark geography of the town is littered with the rusting relics of its past industrial hopes, Inupiaq with English subtitles symbolizing the neglect and isolation surrounding the community. Through a handful of fascinating portraits Canadian Premiere of the town’s inhabitants, a compelling picture of life unfolds in Enurmino, and by extension life in Russia, When an Inuit hunter is the only witness to a murder for Indigenous peoples. The town needs two medical amidst the barren, silent Arctic landscape, he is forced assistants, but life is so harsh, no one wants to live to decide the murderer’s fate. there. The village has no regular transport, so goods and food are scarce, building materials non-existent, and Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Inupiaq) is an award- forget about spare parts for the 30-year-old snowmobile. winning filmmaker whose previous films have People survive on walrus; the village eats about one a screened at imagineNATIVE and internationally day. This is a community where children are compelled including the Sundance Film Festival and the to attend residential school and when liquor arrives Museum of Modern Art. His documentary When on the helicopter also carrying clothes and supplies, it the Season is Good: Artists of Arctic Alaska was throws the small community into disarray. The camera acquired by ARTE after its Canadian premiere at moves so quietly among the townspeople, it pulls you on imagineNATIVE in 2006. a voyage to Siberia you will never forget.
Siberian Yupik filmmaker Aleksei Vakhrushev was Welcome to Enurmino! at imagineNATIVE in 2002 with his masterful 35mm Director: Aleksei Vakhrushev trilogy A Seagull’s Fight Against the Wind. His film Russia · 60 min · 2008 · Digital Beta received a honourable mention at imagineNATIVE for the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award Russian and Chuchki with English subtitles in 2003.
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In a town so remote it takes a miracle to enter or leave, life unfolds with a cinematic style and rhythm influenced by Tarkovsky. This observational documentary takes 50 51 Friday 1pm | OCT. 17 Friday 3pm | OCT. 17 A SHOUT INTO THE WIND SEEDS OF CHANGE: SHORTS PROGRAM Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
So Much Depends Upon Who Holds the Shovel A Shout Into the Wind Loha Garam Hai (Iron is Hot) One River, All Rivers
Indigenous Plant Diva the stories of Indigenous people to film. In addition So Much Depends Upon Who Holds A Shout Into the Wind Director: Kamala Todd to filmmaking, Biju also teaches film studies at St. the Shovel Director: Katja Gauriloff Canada · 10 min · 2008 · Beta SP Xaviers College in Ranchi, India. Director: Wayne Peltier Finland · 55 min · 2008 · Digital Beta Canada · 11 min· 2008 · Beta SP Ontario Premiere One River, All Rivers Sámi with English subtitles Director: Tom E. Lewis Australia · 6.5 min · 2008 · Digital Beta World Premiere Cease Wyss (T’Uy’Tanat), ‘The Indigenous Plant Diva,’ Canadian Premiere shares her knowledge of the medicinal plants that still grow throughout Vancouver’s urban landscape. Yolnga with English subtitles This subtle video deftly reflects the layers and depths inherent in the artistic process of acclaimed Métis artist This hauntingly arresting film unfolds in the remote Vancouver-based filmmaker Kamala Todd (Métis/ North American Premiere Christi Belcourt. land of the Skolt Sámi people of Finland. Beautifully Cree) is the creator and director of Indigenous City, crafted, and set against the stark and pristine backdrop a multidisciplinary project to promote urban The Yolnga language, the flow of the river, and the Writer and poet Wayne Peltier (Odawa) has a degree of the Lake Sevetti region, a 60km string of lakes that sustainability by utilizing Indigenous knowledge. rhythm of life in the “outback” are gorgeously captured in English Literature from Carleton University. This link the Sámi people together, this verité documentary in this beautiful homage to an Aboriginal elder’s message to the white people: “Do not poison our rivers.” is his first video. quietly shadows one family’s struggle to maintain a Tuscarora Corn: Ears of Our Forefathers
delicate balance between preserving cultural traditions, Director: Kate Brascoupé Canada · 9 min · 2008 · Beta SP Indigenous actor and musician Tom E. Lewis is a Sami in the City economic survival and rapid modernization within their veteran of the stage and screen with a performance Director: Liselotte Wajstedt community. The evocative musical score seamlessly World Premiere career spanning 30 years. Tom was awarded the Sweden · 8 min · 2007 · Beta SP interweaves past and present in this sensitive and 2005 Bob Maza Fellowship by the Australian Film thought-provoking portrayal of a family united in their In this endearing documentary, the Rickard family Commission and the Australia Council’s 2006 Red Toronto Premiere love for their one another. shares an approach to corn farming reminiscent of times Ochre Award, both recognizing lifetime achievement past, one that involves family and community, a strong in Indigenous arts and culture. An urban exploration leads a young Sámi woman to Katja Gauriloff was born in Inari, Northern Lapland work ethic, and nurturing the land by hand. Dueños del Agua (Owners of the Water) revisit her language, in search of the words to express where her grandmother is a famous Skolt Sámi Kate Brascoupé (Mohawk) recently graduated f Directors: David Hernandez-Palmar, Caimi Waiasse, traditional storyteller. She studied film at the her contemporary experience. rom Centennial College. Her first video Save the Laura R. Graham Tampere School of Art and. A Shout into the Wind is Skywoman screened at imagineNATIVE in 2006 Brazil/Venezuela/USA · 33 min · 2007 · Beta SP Artist and filmmaker, Liselotte Wajstedt studied art her first documentary film. and this is the second video she has made through at Gerlesborgsskolan in Stockholm, as well as animation 7th Generation Image Makers. Xavante, Spanish and English with English subtitles and filmmaking at the University of Gotland. Her documentary, Sámi Daughter Yoik premiered Loha Garam Hai (Iron is Hot) Ontario Premiere in Canada at imagineNATIVE in 2007. Directors: Biju Toppo, Meghnath Ranchi India · 40 min · 2008 · Beta SP The Western world’s insatiable appetite for the soybean is wreaking environmental havoc in Brazil, where lush Hindi with English subtitles forests are clear-cut to make room for soy farmers. For the Xavante people, the run-off from caustic fertilizers World Premiere threatens a river that is central to their culture and to their ceremonies. But in a world where commerce rules A compelling and heart-wrenching tale of survival and where soy is an established health food product, evolves as we follow the efforts of a community struggling who will listen to their plight? to combat the devastating effects of India’s fastest polluting industry of sponge-iron manufacturing. With South American filmmakers David Hernandez- few regulations in place to protect those most vulnerable, Palmar (Wayuu) and Caimi Waiasse (Xavante) the people must take it upon themselves to fight to save collaborated with U.S.-based professor and first-time their land and livelihoods. A captivating and honest filmmaker Laura R. Graham. reminder about the effects of globalization on people and the environment. Co-presented by
Award-winning, social-issue documentary film- maker, Biju Toppo has been dedicated to bringing 52 53 Friday 5pm | OCT. 17 EXILE Al Green Theatre
L’Amendment Exile
L’Amendment Two Scoops Director: Kevin Papatie Director: Jacqueline Traverse Canada · 4 min · 2007 · Beta SP Canada · 3 min · 2008 · Beta SP
Canadian Premiere World Premiere
Inspired by the filmmaker’s own experience, this elegant Hand-drawn animation punctuates this personal story and personal documentary explores the impact of about the 60’s ‘scoop’ of Aboriginal children into the government assimilation and residential schooling on Canadian child-welfare system. four generations of family. Jacqueline Traverse (Ojibway/Cree) has recently Kevin Papatie (Algonquin) has directed five short completed her fourth year of studies in Fine Arts at films and won numerous awards for his work. the University of Manitoba. In addition to painting L’Amendement is his most recent film made through and filmmaking, she is also a mother of three the Wapikoni Mobile program, and was featured daughters. This is her second short film. along with the Quebec theatrical release of Denys Arcand’s film, L’Age des Ténèbres. Exile Director: Zacharias Kunuk My Own Private Lower Post Canada · 48 min · 2008 · Digital Beta Directors: Duane Gastant’ Aucoin, Gord Loverin Canada · 30 min · 2008 · Beta SP Inuktitut with English subtitles
Tlingit and English with English subtitles World Premiere
World Premiere In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres Filmmaker Duane Gastant’ Aucoin embarks on a journey north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in with his mother for the first time to understand the northern Québec. The goal of the move was to extend effects that the Lower Post residential school had on Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. As her life. While he never attended Lower Post, he comes a result, Inuit people were forced to endure the pain of to the realization that this residential school has had families torn apart and many years of hardship. With a profound influence on him, and recognizes that he devastating first-person accounts of survival, the trail has suffered throughout his life from many of the same of broken promises and shameful practices of the symptoms as his mother. In the year that Prime Minister government and the RCMP, this powerful documentary Stephen Harper issued a historic apology on behalf captures the long-standing effects of these events from of the government of Canada to all residential school the perspectives of the people who were forced to survivors, this personal documentary highlights the endure them. intergenerational scourge of residential schools and the redemption that comes from having the courage to face Zacharias Kunuk is a renowned Inuit filmmaker this overwhelming truth. whose dramatic feature films include Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), which won the Camera d’Or at the Duane Gastant’ Aucoin (Tlingit) is a filmmaker, Cannes in 2001 and The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, performer and two-spirited activist whose live and co-directed with Norman Cohn, which opened the digital video piece Kichx Anagaat Yatx’i: Children of Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. Kunuk the Rainbow won the audience favourite award for is the winner of a National Arts Award, National best feature at the Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Aboriginal Achievement Award and was awarded Festival in Vancouver. His previous short films Chez the Order of Canada in 2005. D’s and The End were at imagineNATIVE in 2005 and 2006. Co-presented by
54 55 Friday 7pm | OCT. 17 Friday 7pm | OCT. 17 SHORTS PROGRAM I SHORTS PROGRAM I Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
Petit Prince (Little Prince) A Small Thing Run
Coffee & Allah Yolgnu Guya Djamamirr Cooper Director: Sima Urale (Aboriginal Fisherman) Director: Sally Kewayosh New Zealand · 14 min · 2007 · Beta SP Director: Frank Djirrimbilpilwuy Canada · 10 min · 2007 · Beta SP Australia · 6 min · 2008 · Digital Beta Oromo and English with English subtitles Canadian Premiere Canadian Premiere Canadian Premiere A tender portrait of an elderly husband’s love for his A compelling story chronicling the overnight fame that ailing wife. Being Muslim in a Western world can be a trying experience, accompanied the Chooky Dancer’s performance of but coffee is a universal language. Zorba the Greek-Yolgnu Style, on YouTube. This is the Originally from the Walpole Island First Nation, heart-wrenching story behind the dance. filmmaker Sally Kewayosh (Ojibwe/Cree) is Samoa’s first female director Sima Urale (Samoan) currently studying film at New York University. recently completed her first feature Apron Strings Frank Djirrimbilpilwuy is from Galiwinku on (2008). Elcho Island. This culturally rich community is located north of Gove in the Northern Territory. Run Djirrimbilpilwuy is a well-respected community Director: Mark Albiston Petit Prince (Little Prince) member who has worked as a radio broadcaster Writer: Louis Sutherland Director: Vince Papatie and manager of the local BRACS (Broadcasting New Zealand · 15 min · 2007 · 35mm Canada · 6 min · 2007 · Beta SP from Remote Aboriginal Community Scheme) Unit at Galiwinku and Milingimbi. Ontario Premiere French with English subtitles Fresh from an international festival run including Berlin Ontario Premiere Ting and an honourable mention at Cannes comes this expertly Director: Chanouk Newashish crafted tale of a misfit Samoan girl; the little brother who An Algonquin “little prince” tells his own, darker version Canada · 3 min · 2007 · Beta SP exploits her; and their tormented and dominating single- of the Saint-Exupéry story with beautifully-illustrated dad, in a searingly honest portrait of emotional survival. animation. Ontario Premiere Samoan writer Louis Sutherland was inspired to Vince Papatie (Algonquin) has previously directed Creative editing forms a rhythmic sound design that write this script based on personal experience. He two short films, Wakaini and Kookum on the Move. He captures the pulse of a northern community. has worked in radio and television for fifteen years made this project with the Wapikoni Mobile. as a director and performer and is currently writing Chanouk Newashish (Atikamekw) made this project and directing a short film and working on a feature. through the Wapikoni Mobile program, a travelling Le rêve d’une mère (A Mother’s Dream) production studio for youth in Canadian Aboriginal Director: Marie-Eve Grignon communities. Presented by Canada · 7 min · 2007 · Beta SP
Algonquin and French with English subtitles A Small Thing Director: Adam Garnet Jones Canadian Premiere Canada · 15 min · 2008 · Digital Beta
A deeply touching and heartbreaking story of a mother’s After being dumped by her boyfriend for being emotionally love for her two children, who live in foster care. unavailable, Margaret decides to recreate her 10th birthday party in the hopes of remembering what Marie-Eve Grignon (Algonquin) made this project profoundly changed her so many years ago. through Wapikoni Mobile program, a traveling production studio for youth in Canadian Adam Garnet Jones (Cree/Métis) studied film production Aboriginal communities. at Ryerson University and has created over twenty short films. His films have screened at national and international festivals including imagineNATIVE and 56 the Toronto International Film Festival. 57 Friday 9pm | OCT. 17 THE LAST EXPLORER Al Green Theatre
The Last Explorer
The Drum Practice The Last Explorer Director: Doug Smarch Director: Neil Diamond Canada · 3 min · 2007 · Beta SP Canada · 75 min · 2008 · Beta SP
Ontario Premiere World Premiere
Still objects perform in this enchanting and imaginative Filmmaker Neil Diamond explores the fascinating story stop-motion animation. of George Elson, his great uncle and one of Canada’s unsung heroes. This entertaining docu-drama recounts Doug Smarch (Tlingit) has a Masters degree from the 1905 expedition led by Elson (played by Nathaniel UCLA in Design Media Arts and lives in Teslin, Arcand) to map Labrador, then the last uncharted Yukon. region of North America. What we discover is a sweeping story of adventure, adversity, and forbidden love.
One of Canada’s foremost Aboriginal filmmakers, Neil Diamond’s (Cree) credits include One More River (2004) and Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster In Northern Quebec (2004). He is a member of the Rezolution Pictures International creative team and is currently developing Reel Injun, a collaboration with the Passionate Eye and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN).
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58 59 Friday 11pm | OCT. 17 Friday 11pm | OCT. 17 THE WITCHING HOUR THE WITCHING HOUR Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
Okay, Now What? The Flying Head Betty Has A Bad Hair Day Nga Taumaru (Shadows)
The Word Lucky 13 Floating 1, 2, 3 Knockup Director: Quentin Parr Director: Ellen Monague, Candel Matthews Director: Blackhorse Lowe Director: Ariel Smith New Zealand · 19 min · 2008 · 35mm Canada · 23 min · 2008 · Beta SP USA · 10 min · 2008 · Beta SP Canada · 5.5 min · 2007 · Beta SP
Ontario Premiere In classic horror-genre style, a group of friends’ luck World Premiere A discordant lullaby, a carnivorous mother, a cherub-faced runs out when they are hunted down one by one by a cheerleader....all is not what it seems in this darkly In a dystopic near future the rich are separated from mysterious killer after a recent lottery win. In this hilarious and beautifully-shot stoner saga, a haunting deconstruction of a woman’s role within the poor by fences and armed guards and marshall law redundant conversation reaches epic proportions. society. rules. In the chaos, half brothers Tama and Tahu are This video was created through the youth video ini- determined to reunite and won’t let anything stand in tiative Indigenous Culture and Media Innovations. Blackhorse Lowe’s (Diné) previous films, including Ariel Smith (Cree/Ojibway/Roma/Jewish) is an their way. Co-creator Christopher Morriseau sadly passed away his debut feature 5th World have screened at experimental video artist who has been creating shortly after this project was completed and this imagineNATIVE and internationally including her own independent works for the past six years. The Word is Quentin Parr’s first shorts, and is production is dedicated to his memory. the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, Filmmaker She has had previous works at imagineNATIVE currently working on his first feature. Magazine named him as one of the 25 new faces of including Swallow, which won the Cynthia The Flying Head Indie film. Lickers-Sage Award for Emerging Talent in 2004. Ok, Now What? Director: Shelley Niro Director: Jeff Bruyère Canada · 3.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Betty Has A Bad Hair Day Nga Taumaru (Shadows) Canada · 2 min · 2008 · Beta SP Director: Terry Haines Director: Michael Jonathan World Premiere Canada · 7 min · 2007 · Beta SP New Zealand · 13 min · 2008 · Beta SP A late-night emergency call to 911 goes painfully awry in this surprising and absurdist comedy. “You better not stay out after dark or the flying head will Ontario Premiere North American Premiere get you!” Come along for the ride as this traditional story Jeff Bruyère (Ojibway) has been working behind is transformed for all those who aren’t afraid of the dark! On the day of her big date, Betty wakes up with the A brilliant and exquisitely terrifying trip into the the film scenes for the past 10 years. Ok, Now What? mother of bad hair days. haunted soul of a man tormented by demonic shadows. was one of twenty-five films commissioned by the Shelley Niro (Mohawk) was a fellow at the National Fasten your seat belts. Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque to commemorate Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute Terry Haines (Shuswap/Welsh/Chilcotin/French) is their 25th Anniversary, and is his directorial debut. (1997), completed a MFA at the University of Western a multidisciplinary artist whose short films Painted Michael Jonathan (Te Arawa) has worked in New Ontario and trained at the Ontario College of Art Positive, The Walk, and Dragonfly have screened at Zealand as a cameraman and editor for the past and Design. Her films have screened at imagineNATIVE imagineNATIVE. eight years. Nga Taumara is his stunning and internationally including the Sundance Film directorial debut. Festival. Co-presented by
60 61 Saturday 11am | OCT. 18 Saturday 1pm | OCT. 18 PIRINOP, MEU PRIMEIRO CONTATO MAD MORRO Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
Pirinop, Meu Primeiro Contato (Pirinop, My First Contact) Pirinop, Meu Primeiro Contato (Pirinop, My First Contact) Canned Meat Mad Morro
Pirinop, Meu Primeiro Contato (Pirinop, My First Contact) Canned Meat/Immobilized Gunplay 2 Directors: Karané Ikpeng, Mari Corrêa with the participation of Kumaré and Natuyu Ikpeng Director: Terril Calder Director: Dana Claxton Brazil · 83 min · 2007 · Beta SP Canada · 3.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Canada · 1.5 min · 2007 · Beta SP
Ikpeng and Portuguese with English subtitles World Premiere Ontario Premiere
Ontario Premiere A beautifully insightful and uniquely animated portrait of A toy gun is used to contemplate the complex relationship one woman’s struggle to liberate herself from the trap- our society has with the weapon. The Americas ‘first contact’ is widely recognized as having occurred in 1492. For the Ikpeng pings of trailer-park life. Indigenous people in Brazil, first contact was a documented event that occurred in October Vancouver-based Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota 1964 and eventually led to the relocation of the Ikpeng people to the Xingu park in Brazil, far Terril Calder (Métis) is a multidisciplinary artist Nation) is a multidisciplinary artist working in from their traditional territory. With spellbinding footage from the actual event and personal whose works have been exhibited in Winnipeg and film, video and performance art. accounts of first impressions, this compelling documentary offers a rare glimpse into that Toronto. She holds a BFA from the University of historic event from the Indigenous point of view and captures the incredible impact that Manitoba and is currently exploring the craft of Mad Morro contact had on the lives of the Ikpeng people and how it continues to affect them to this day. stop frame-animation. Previous works include: The Director: Kelrick Martin Reunion and The 300 lb. Cream Puff for Salvation. Australia · 49 min · 2008 · Digital Beta Karané Ikpeng (Ikpeng) received his training in videography and editing through the Video in the Villages program (Video nas Aldeias), which facilitates video production Wanja North American Premiere within Indigenous Brazilian communities. His previous video Marangnotxíngmo Mïrang: Director: Angie Abdilla From the Ikpeng Children to the World was awarded Best Documentary at both the 2002 Australia · 25.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Debbie has waited 13 years for her son James to get out Premio Anaconda Festival and the 2004 National Geographic All Roads Festival. of jail. This gripping verité documentary follows James North American Premiere week by week after his release, capturing his dreams to make it all up to his family and have a normal life. But Co-presented by “The Block” is a renowned section of Aboriginal housing he has spent his entire adult life in jail, and the survival in Redfern, an inner-city suburb of Sydney where skills he learned there make him a powder keg out on tensions run high between the police and the members the streets. A gripping story of familial bonds and the of the community. Auntie Barb is an elder of Redfern’s destructiveness that the prison system wreaks not only community, who has lived on the block for twenty years on those imprisoned, but also on all those who love with her infamous blue heeler dog Wanja, a trusted them. companion known for her ability to warn the community of police presence. The recollection of stories about Aboriginal director Kelrick Martin started his career Wanja, “the Block’s guardian angel”, constructs a at Radio Goolarri in North West Australia; he later compelling portrait of a community that has grappled worked as the series producer of Message Sticks. with the strain of poverty and racial tension for His previous short documentary Island Fettlers was many years. broadcast on SBS TV, he is currently a commissioning editor with National Indigenous Television. Mad Wanja is Angie Abdilla’s (Tasmanian Aboriginal) Morro is his first one-hour documentary. directorial debut after having completed documentary studies at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).
62 63 Saturday 3pm | OCT. 18 SOUTHERN CROSSROADS curated by amalia córdova Al Green Theatre
Newen (Life-Force) Sachata Kishipichik Mani (I’m a Defender of the Forest)
International Spotlight Southern Crossroads: indigenous shorts from This wryly-humorous documentary portrays the event- Latin America filled second day of a P’urhepecha wedding ceremony in Michoacán. Newen (Life-Force) Chile · 4 min · 2004 · Digital Beta For the past decade director Dante Cerano Bautista Director: Jennifer Aguilera Silva (P’urhepecha) has explored questions of cultural identity. His documentary, Día 2/Day 2, about a Spanish and Mapudungun (available with English P’urehepcha wedding, won the Best Artistic Creation subtitles). Award at the 7th Festival Americano de Cine y Video de Pueblos Indígenas in Chile in 2004. In 2003 he Canadian premiere received the Young Creators grant given by the Mexican arts foundation Fondo Nacional de la The hip-hop artist JAAS calls on the ancestors to awaken Cultura y de las Artes (FONCA). He is from the warrior spirit within the Mapuche people of today. Cheranatzicurin, Michoacán. Performing as JAAS, Aguilera raps in Spanish and A Cielo Abierto (Under the Open Sky) Mapudungun. She produces music with La Calle Mexico · 38 min · 2007 · Digital Beta Records, an independent label in Santiago, Chile. Directors: José Luis Matías, Carlos Pérez Rojas Newen/Life Force is her debut music video. She was Producer: Ojo de Tigre Video. raised in and lives in San Joaquin, a municipality in the metropolitan area of Santiago, Chile. Spanish with English subtitles.
Sachata Kishipichik Mani Canadian premiere (I’m a Defender of the Forest) Ecuador · 21 min · 2003 · Digital Beta The largest gold deposit in Mexico is found in the com- Director: Eriberto Gualinga munity of El Carrizalillo, in the state of Guerrero, but its population lives in poverty. In early 2007 community Founded in 2001, Kichwa with English subtitles. landholders organized themselves to demand from Gold- corp Mining, a Canadian transnational company, a just the festival presents aboriginal films and videos Toronto premiere annual payment for the land it uses and social benefits and guest media artists from around the world for the community. Under the Open Sky is the story of a . Indigenous women in the community of Sarayaku lead people that organized, fought and won. www.weeneebeg.ca the resistance to the exploration for oil when an Argen- tinian petroleum company comes into their territory in José Luis Matías Alonso (Nahua) produces documenta- the Ecuadorian Amazon. ries about Nahua communities in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. He recently formed his own production com- Eriberto Gualinga (Sarayaku Kichwa) teaches pany, Ojo de Tigre Video-Mirada India. Matías is from traditional Kichwa music at the Escuela Tayak Huasi Acatlan, Guerrero, and is a fluent speaker of Nahuatl. in Sarayaku, a village on the Bobonaza River in the Subscribe to Fuse today & don’t miss out on the best in Pastaza province of the Ecuadorian Amazon. He Carlos Efraín Pérez Rojas (Mixe) is a documentary critical insight on visual culture& politics! trained in video workshops coordinated by groups filmmaker and a human rights advocate for such as Acción Creativa, the Asociación de Cineastas indigenous communities in Mexico. In 2005 he Individual: Institution: de Ecuador, Confederación de Nacionalidades received the Reebok Human Rights Award. one year (4 issues) $24 Incl. GST $38 incl. GST Indígenas de Ecuador, and Fundación de Arte e Ima- Reclaiming Justice: Guerrero’s Indigenous two year (8 issues) $40 incl. GST $64 incl. GST gen. He received a degree in agriculture from Community Police received the Human Rights the Colegio Técnico Agropecuario of Sarayaku. Award at the 2004 Encuentro Hispanoamericano de Video Documental Independiente independent Día 2 (Day 2) documentary film festival and the Best Film Award Send cheque or money order to: Mexico · 23 min · 2004 · Mini DV 401 Richmond Street West Director: Dante Cerano Co-presented by Toronto, ON M5V 3A8 P’urepecha and Spanish with English subtitles. Smithsonian Institute Or by pay credit card call 416 340 8026 Canadian premiere {logo} 64 65 Saturday 5pm | OCT. 18 Sunday 5pm | OCT. 18 CULTURE SHOCK: CURATED BY STEVEN LOFT CULTURE SHOCK: CURATED BY STEVEN LOFT Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
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Stephen Foster writes that “before reunification, both inspired films (from the former West Germany) and the Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi East and West Germany made genre films that sit East German “Red Westerns” produced by the DEFA. (Winnetou and the Half-Blood Apanatschi) outside and even contradict the standard Hollywood Director: Harald Philipp formula. Although, they offer an alternative perspective Darryl Nepinak, Keesic Douglas, Bonnie Devine and Writers: Karl May, Fred Denger they are not intended to be realist depictions but instead Bear Witness were chosen to respond to two of the films West Germany · 90 min (7 min excerpt) · 1966 · Beta SP create a simulacra of Indianness by mimicking the by creating new short works based on them. They are Hollywood genre and fusing it with a distinctly German acutely aware of the history and enduring power of the Between 1912 and 1968 German cinema produced 23 and European perspective.” stereotypes they portray, and they are forging clear lines movies made from Karl May’s novels, many of which of demarcation between those works and contemporary feature the Apache leader Winnetou, and his German The Hollywood westerns were an altogether different Aboriginal society. born “blood brother” Old Shatterhand. model, vilifying the Aboriginal nations and seeking to revise the conquest of the “Wild West” from a particularly The humour in the works is wickedly funny and Karl May was one of the best selling German writers of The Story of Apanatschi and Her Redheaded Warrior American sensibility. That the German films seem to unrepentant... a fearless kick at the colonial ass. all time. History. His romantic novels of the “old west” Bear Thomas refute this version of history is an interesting departure Sometimes subtle, sometimes bawdy, it is the rejection and “the orient” have sold over 100 million copies across Canada · 5.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP from the ethno-political narrative North Americans of the “sacrosanct white story,” laden with satire and the globe, and his 60 novels have been translated into are used to seeing, but it’s instructive that even these poignancy. The Swiss painter Paul Klee wrote that over 30 languages, including a recent series in Chinese. We see the same kind of stereotypes in video games as “positive” views of Aboriginal people are still infused “satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill and been made into 23 films and a short lived television we do in TV and film. In the case of fighting games like with many of the stereotypes common in Euro-western will from a higher point of view” (1968). But that satire series. Street Fighter and Tekken the characters’ fighting styles mythologies - those that place Aboriginal people as is a site of political dissent should be no surprise. It has are generally determined by their race. This re-visioning victims and leave the cultural revisionists as arbiters and long been a form of resistance... from Jonathan Swift’s He was a favorite read of many famous Germans, includ- of the 1992 arcade game Virtual Fighter 5 follows the authors of the “real.” Gulliver’s Travels to Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show and ing Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, and Herman howling loin-cloth-clad, red-haired Indian wrestler, Wolf certainly in the works of these, and many other Hesse. May’s house “Villa Shatterhand” in Radebeul near Hatfield. Thomas allows the gamer to play stylist, al- What the filmmakers in the former East and West Aboriginal artists. Dresden, Germany has been made a museum devoted lowing wardrobe changes including a big headdress and Germanies were fashioning was a view of western to him and his collection of anthropological artifacts of aviator shades. Thomas noted that, “Wolf started looking mythology that could best be called cultural revisionism. Gerald McMaster points out that “for contemporary American Indian origin. It is also the home of “Karl May a lot like my father did in an old photo.” This work bor- Viewing these films for the first time certainly gave Native American artists... the difficulty in re-enacting Foundation”, which publishes a quarterly journal called rows its title from the keen observation of a sever year me a new understanding (if not appreciation) of the the stereotype hinges on the absurd degree to which “Beobachter an der Elbe”. old friend who asked Thomas: “Is he Nish? No, he has phenomenon of the “noble savage” within the European they acutely address -- through the strategy of humour red hair. He must be Mohawk.” psyche, but it also struck me that it seemed a perfect -- something that is almost completely lacking in the entry point for a discussion of cultural sovereignty and works of non-Natives” (2007). Ottawa- based artist Ehren Bear Thomas started making radical subjectivity. videos while in Junior High and has since experimented As Scott Vickers has written, “our search for a ‘real’ with glass blowing, Deejaying, music production and For our project, this involves the clear refashioning Indian identity must be deferred to the articulations writing. In 2006 Ehren participated in Saw Video’s youth of mimetic literature and film... transposing its ability of real Indians” (1998). Devine, Nepinak, Douglas program and had his first public screenings of two new to create social change from the re-enactors to the and Thomas know that Aboriginal cultures continue video works at the 2006 ImagiNATIVE media festival, “real Indians,” what curator and cultural critic Gerald to transcend the banality and simple-mindedness of in the music video category and the short experimental McMaster referred to as “the double entendre of stereotype... so they might as well have some fun with category, where he also received an honourable mention re-enactment”(2007). McMaster’s analysis examines it. But don’t be fooled, the works are much more than award for emerging talent. Ehren is also collaborating on re-enactment as both a zealous naïveté on the part of simply parodies; they provide us with a departure point, several video and music projects with his father, visual non-Natives and as subversive cultural practice by a nexus that challenges racist mythologies while artist and curator Jeff Thomas. Aboriginal artists. This project builds on McMaster’s valuing the expression of Indigenous perspectives. thesis by actively engaging the process. They’re not trying to convince other Native people -- Thanks to a generous offer by the Goethe-Institut Toronto, we all get the joke and the irony -- what they are creating we were fortunate to have access to the Karl May is a bridge, an invitation to rapprochement, and an indictment of attempts to undermine a society’s culture.
66 67 Saturday 5pm | OCT. 18 Sunday 5pm | OCT. 18 CULTURE SHOCK: CURATED BY STEVEN LOFT CULTURE SHOCK: CURATED BY STEVEN LOFT Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
War Pony Director: Keesic Douglas Zwe Indianer Aus Winnipeg Canada · 9:00 · 2008 · Beta SP Director: Darryl Nepinak Canada · 2.40· 2008 · Beta SP What does it mean to be in two worlds? And here do or understandings of “others” come from. In this narrative Two ersatz “Indian warriors” chase a beautiful Indian account, Keesic Douglas slyly explores these issues with maiden through the streets of Winnipeg. But she loves an eye to challenging perceptions. In the double role of Chief Big Bear. Who is the hunter, and who the hunted actor and director, Douglas plays the slightly racist white in this tableaux? Based on the 1964 German song, “Zwei father of the half-blood girl. He wears clothes by Ger- Indianer Aus Winnipeg,” our heroes are in for a surprise man designer Hugo Boss, IC Berlin glasses, and drives A Grim Fairy Tale when they reach The Ancient Lake of Schwinestieger. a German car. The viewer may ponder: why is Douglas, Director: Bonnie Devine an Aboriginal artist, playing a German father? Douglas’s Canada · 6 min · 2008 · Beta SP Darryl Nepinak (Ojibwe) works at the Ndinawe Youth response: German people have been playing Indians for Resource centre in Winnipeg, MB. He curated INDIAN- years. Inspired by the 1965 DEFA film The Sons of Great Bear, PEG: Shorts from Winnipeg Aboriginal Filmmakers at starring Gojko Mitic, Devine’s video opens with the the 2006 Gimli Film Festival. Nepinak is the co-founder Keesic Douglas is an Ojibway artist from the Mnjikaning Die Söhne der großen Bärin discovery of an old wooden chest, and weaves together of Indie ‘N Film/Video Collective and the treasurer of First Nation in central Ontario, Canada. He specializes (The Sons of the Great Bear) the objects it contains to tell the story of the battle for Urban Shaman Gallery. He directed My Indian Name in the mediums of photography and video. His work has Director: Josef Mach the Black Hills. Using hand-drawn adaptations of the through First Stories, a competitive documentary pro- been exhibited across Canada and the US. Keesic fo- East Germany · 92 min (7 minute excerpt) · 1966 · Beta Fort Marion prison drawings, the ledger drawings by duction program for Aboriginal filmmakers, coordinated cuses on issues surround his Native heritage in his photo SP Red Horse and an original score by David Deleary, the by the NFB Prairie Centre. He lived in Gisborne, New and video work. His videos Rezurrection and Slide have story unfolds from the coming of the white man to the Zealand for 10 months in 2004, where he directed a been programmed at imagineNATIVE Film Festival, with When gold is discovered in the black hills of the Dakotas discovery of gold to the final battle for the territory now documentary about the 30-year history of Te Ora Hou The Vanishing Trace winning Best Short Documentary by a white settler, a fearless Indian chief takes action known as South Dakota. Aotearoa, a Maori youth organization, and mentored at the 2007. He is currently pursuing his Master of Fine to prevent his people from being driven from their Maori teens in video production. Nepinak learned video Arts in photography at the University of British Colum- land. Filmed in Montenegro and East Germany, starring Bonnie Devine is a member of the Serpent River (Ojib- production through the NSI Aboriginal Youth Pilot Proj- bia in Vancouver. Serbian actor/stuntman Gojko Mitic. way) First Nation in Northern Ontario and an artist, ect and the Aboriginal Broadcasting Training Initiative curator, writer and educator. A graduate of the Ontario of the Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre. Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, better known as College of Art and Design and York University, her pri- DEFA, was the state film monopoly in the German mary interests are sculpture and installation. However, Curator Steven Loft Democratic Republic. DEFA was founded in the Spring during the past seven years she has been exploring the of 1946 in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany as possibilities of sound, video and electronics within a Steven Loft (Mohawk) is a curator, writer and media the first film production company in post-War Germany. narrative sculptural practice. Her video, Rooster Rock, artist and studied at McMaster University and Humber While the other Allies, in their zones of occupation, co-produced and co-directed with Rebecca Garrett, won College of Applied Arts and Technology. From 2002- viewed a rapid revival of a German film industry with Best Experimental Video at the ImagineNATIVE Film + 2008, he was the Director of the Urban Shaman Gallery suspicion, the Soviets valued the medium as a primary Media Arts Festival in 2002 and subsequently toured in- (Winnipeg), Canada’s largest Aboriginal artist run means for re-educating the German populace as it ternationally. Recently, Devine exhibited Medicine River, centre. Prior to this, Mr. Loft was First Nations Curator emerged from twelve years of Nazi rule and mindset. In a sculpture and sound installation at AxeNeo7 Gallery at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Artistic Director of the 1960s, DEFA produced the popular “red western” in Gatineau Quebec and Writing Home, an installation the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers’ Association. He The Sons of the Great Bear.This spawned a number of of sculptural works, photography, drawings and sound has curated gallery exhibitions, programmed media sequels and was notable for inverting Western-cliches by at Gallery Connexion, in Fredericton, New Brunswick. arts festivals and written extensively on Aboriginal portraying the native Americans as the “good guys”, and She currently teaches Aboriginal Visual Culture at the art. His video works have been screened at festivals the American army as the villains. Ontario College of Art and Design and maintains an ac- and galleries across Canada and internationally. He tive art practice in Toronto, Canada. has written articles, essays and reviews on Aboriginal art and aesthetics for magazines, catalogues and arts publications. Recently, Mr. Loft co-edited Transference, Technology, Tradition: Aboriginal Media and New Media Art, published by the Banff Centre Press. Steven Loft is currently completing a two-year residency as the first Aboriginal curator-in-residence at the National Gallery of Canada.
68 69 Saturday | OCT. 18 BEFORE TOMORROW and a SPECIAL PANEL PRESENTATION Al Green Theatre
Before Tomorrow
7:00 PM 8:30PM
Before Tomorrow In conversation with the Arnait Video Col- Directors: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu lective following the screening of Canada · 93 min · 2008 · 35mm Before Tomorrow
Inukitut with English subtitles The Arnait Video Collective is a group of Igloolik women that have been collectively making videos since 1991. In this remarkable debut feature, two Elders, Ningiuq The goal of the collective is to value the voices of Inuit (Ivalu) and her best friend Kutuujuk (Mary Qulitalik), women and to create a production process that is in take Ningiuq’s grandson Maniq (Paul-Dylan Ivalu) to a harmony with the lives of the women involved in each remote island to dry fish after a particularly bountiful project. The group’s first dramatic feature-length film catch in the mid-19th century. Isolated, Kutuujuk falls Before Tomorrow is an astonishing cinematic achievement, ill, and when no one comes to get them, Ningiuq fears and tells an epic story through the eyes of one Inuit something terrible has happened at home. Stunningly woman. photographed and brilliantly acted Before Tomorrow is one of the best Canadian movies made this year, con- As the auteur filmmaker as a single individual is often tributing to a distinct and completely new cinematic lan- an elevated and celebrated part of film culture, how is guage, one steeped in Aboriginal storytelling techniques the extraordinary vision for Arnait’s projects realized that generates a tangible feeling of history come alive. within the model of a collective? In conversation with four members of the Arnait Video Collective, this panel Marie Hélène-Cousineau is the founder of Arnait will explore the roots of the collective, their unique Video production, a video workshop for Inuit women. collaborative approach to filmmaking, and how their Madelaine Piujuq Ivalu has been a key Elder process unfolds. The panel will also examine how the participant at Arnait since 1991. Before Tomorrow cultural values of the collective inform the filmmaking is their first feature film. process itself.
Moderated by Jesse Wente, imagineNATIVE Programmer
With members of the Arnait Video Collective: Susan Avingaq, Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and Carol Kunnuk
70 71 Saturday 7pm | OCT. 18 Saturday 7pm | OCT. 18 THE BEAT THE BEAT Hard Rock Café Hard Rock Café
Eyes Wide Open Warrk Warrk (Black Crow) Burial Grounds Tangaroa
Eyes Wide Open Warrk Warrk (Black Crow) Grateful Sacred Power Director: Renae Morriseau Director: Tom E. Lewis Director: Director: Mapuche Dub Canada · 4.5 min · 2008 · HD Australia · 3:40 min · 2008 · HD Country · 3.5 min · Year · Beta SP Canada · 3.5 min · 2008 · Format
World Premiere A traditional, indigenous dance depicts the Creation Premiere Status World Premiere story of Crow and how song was used to give life to all This contemporary video by M’Girl pays tribute to the the Earth’s creatures. Synopsis Mixmaster Steven Stanley adds his touch to this vivid power of prayer and its manifestation in our conscious life. music video that calls for a return to the land and A multi-talented director, actor, and musician, Tom Biography traditional ways. A singer, filmmaker and professional actress, Lewis began his arts career in 1977 and has since Renae Morriseau has been singing professionally for toured throughout the world showcasing his music. If This Was Right (remix) Mapuchedub and Fourth World Dub are members several years creating music for her documentary Tom released his debut album “Sunshine After Rain” Director: Ervin Chartrand of the Indigenous Resistance Collective, a group of films, live performances, and mentors other aspiring in January 2006, for which he won the Music Release Canada · 6 min · 2008 · Beta SP like-minded artists who’ve dedicated themselves to actors and singers. Renae also played the character, of the Year at the NT Indigenous Music Awards. the improvement of human rights through arts and Ellen, on North of Sixty for five years. This stylish interpretation of the opposing forces of love media. Happy Together and war, set in the heart of Winnipeg’s streets is based One Drum Director: Indigenous Culture and Media Innovations on the lead single from hip hop artist Wab Kinew’s latest Burial Grounds Director: Helen Haig-Brown Canada · 3 min · 2008 · Format album. Director: Jeana Francis Canada · 4 min · 2007 · DVD Canada · 3 min · Year · Beta SP World Premiere Ervin Chartrand is a Métis director who’s other work World Premiere includes the short film Sister and Patrick Ross Canadian Premiere A young man finds himself at a crossroads when faced (Winner of 2006 ReelWorld Award for Outstanding This inspiring video is a celebration of the knowledge of with love. Short). He was also awarded “Best New Talent” by Synopsis our ancestors and calls upon all nations face the future the 2005 Winnipeg Aboriginal Festival. with a unified voice. Indigenous Culture and Media Innovations promotes Biography arts and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples Quese IMC “Mouse” Director and cimematographer Helen Haig-Brown through opportunity, knowledge, and skills development. Director: Marcus Quese IMC Frejo, Myron Dewey Tangaroa (God of the Sea) (Tsilhqot’in) is a graduate of the Aboriginal Film and This video was created as part of the ICMI Youth USA · 4.13 min · 2008 · Digital Beta Director: Carey Carter Television Production Program at Capilano College in Digital Video Training Program. Canada · 5 min · 2008 · Digital Beta Vancouver. Her filmSu Naa (My Big Brother) won the World Premiere Best Experimental award at imagineNATIVE in 2005. 20th Street Inspired by the raw energy of Tangaroa, God of the Director: Aleyna May Stene Quese IMC resides in Los Angeles and is of Pawnee/ Sea, this powerful music video pays homage to Maori Land of the Silver Birch... Canada · 6.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Seminole decent. As a producer, writer and performer, tradition while paving the way for contemporary Home of the Beaver his work focuses on the spiritual and cultural movement interpretation. A visually arresting and well crafted Director: Sarah DeCarlo World Premiere of Indigenous Peoples. “Bluelight” is his fifth recorded piece that highlights the music of one of New Zealand’s Canada · 3.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP album. most progressive artists, Tiki Taane. 20th Street marks a main drag that leads to the Saska- World Premiere toon ‘ghettos’ where poverty and gang violence threaten Myron Dewey (Paiute/Shoshone) is the founder Carey Carter (Maori) has twenty years of experience everyday existence in this gritty portrayal of urban and president of Digital Smoke Signals, a Native in film and television production. He created and A parody of the Keep America Beautiful campaign, this street life. owned digital media company. He has completed produced the award winning drama series Mataku unique video pokes fun at the stereotype of the North his Master’s degree in Indigenous Studies from the which won “Best Drama Series” at the 2004 New York American Indian within Canadian culture. Aleyna May Stene is a Metis video artist focused on University of Kansas in 2007. Film Festival. He’s also worked on notable shows promoting social change through the arts. She hopes such as Hercules, Xena Warrior Princess, and What Sarah DeCarlo is an emerging filmmaker, signer/ that her work will inspire young artists to create and Becomes of the Broken Hearted. songwriter, musician, arts advocate, and mother believe in themselves. living in the Peterborough area.
72 73 Saturday 9pm | OCT. 18 THE BEAT: LIVE music PERFORMANCES Hard Rock Café
the Beat
Astral Media Radio presents: The Beat featuring Kinnie Starr Derek Miller, Kinnie Starr and Ghostkeeper Hard Rock Café, Yonge-Dundas Square Vancouver artist, Kinnie Starr (Métis), has recently 279 Yonge St. released her latest album Anything. Starr and her $5 or FREE to All-Access Pass Holders drummer, John Raham, are the creative core behind the album with contributions from Tegan Quinn of Tegan Derek Miller and Sara, mixes from Howard Redekopp (New Pornogra- phers, A.C. Newman, 54-40) and Vic Florencia (Esthero, Guitarist and singer/songwriter Derek Miller (Mohawk) Danko Jones, Amanda Marshall and Nelly Furtado). is a journeyman musician with eclectic taste and a knack for blues-infected roots rock. By 1999 Miller had won a “... visceral rhymes, napalm delivery, spoken word Canadian Aboriginal Music Award and performed with montages and eagle-eyed surveillance of the three S’s iconic Canadian musician Buffy Sainte-Marie. In 2002, --- sexuality, spirituality and society” he released the Juno award-winning album Music is NOW Magazine, 2002 the Medicine, which also went on to win awards at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, Nammy Awards, NCI Ghostkeeper Awards and the First Americans in the Arts. Miller has recently released his second album The Dirty Looks, Ghostkeeper (Métis) is an emerging alternative rock which won a 2008 Juno Award. blues-infused band from Calgary, Alberta. Its four members Shane Ghostkeeper, Sarah Houle, Jay Crocker “... a prolific guitarist who has a penchant for dirty blues and Scott Munroe-Bass are currently in recording to and blaring riffs.” release their debut album for Saved By Radio tentatively Bryan Borzykowski, NOW Magazine 2008 entitled Ghostkeeper and The Children of The Great Northern Muskeg.
74 75 Sunday 1pm | OCT. 19 Sunday 3pm | OCT. 19 WHEN COLIN MET JOYCE SHORTS PROGRAM II Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
Onjinowin (Second Stories) When Colin Met Joyce Rezolution Tangaroa
Our Place In The Circle - When Colin Met Joyce I-N-D-I-A-N Sun Peak Collision Deb-we-win Ge-kend-am-aan Director: Rima Tamou Director: Darryl Nepinak Director: Jack Johnson (Second Stories) Australia · 52 min · 2007 · Digital beta Canada · 1.5 min · 2007 · Beta SP Canada · 2.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Director: Lorne Olson Canada · 21.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Canadian Premiere The classic Spelling Bee, Rez style’! A young man contemplates how tradition has influenced his modern life as an artist in this point of view World Premiere Joyce Clague is a firecracker of a woman, contagious in Winnipeg-based Darryl Nepinak (Saulteaux) has documentary that uses a creative blend of stop motion her energy, passionate in spirit, and fierce in her pursuit screened several of his humorous short videos at animation and poignant voice over. Traditionally, the two-spirited person was one who has of equality. Colin is her quietly supportive husband who imagineNATIVE. been given the gift of having both a female and male shares her fervour for justice and revels in his love for Jack Johnson is from the Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv soul that would allow the individual the ability to see her. Together as a mixed-race couple, they’ve taken Rezolution Nations. He has been creating animation and short the world from two perspectives at the same time. This on the world, rallying for social change and Aboriginal Director: Keesic Douglas films since 2006. This film was created at the DOXA unflinchingly honest documentary profiles two-spirited rights while raising an eclectic family of thirteen fostered Canada · 8 min · 2008 · Beta SP Connections Youth Forum in partnership with people united in their experiences of self-discovery and and biological children. the National Film Board of Canada’s “Our World” affirmation. World Premiere project. Unique and inspiring, theirs is a tremendous love story Lorne Olson was raised on the Brokenhead Ojibway about two individuals whose shared love of life and Over coffee in a Rez diner, a man and a woman unravel We Shall Remain: Untitled First Nation and credits his early love of documentaries resolute belief in equality has kept them together for their hilariously interconnected lives in this smart, talky Director: Michael David Little to his pursuit of filmmaking. After training at the over 40 years. A captivatingly human and heartfelt look comedy. USA · 8.5 min · 2007 · Digital Beta Vancouver Film School, he completed his first short into what it is like to grow up in a mixed-race family, this documentary, Apples and Indians, which premiered at astonishing documentary reminds us of our capacity to Director, writer and producer, Keesic Douglas Canadian Premiere imagineNATIVE in 2005. love and our ability to influence change within our world. (Ojibway), works primarily in photography and video. His film Vanishing Trace won Best Short An inventive, humorous and insightful self-portrait by Rima Tamou is an Australian filmmaker of mixed Documentary at the 2007 imagineNATIVE Festival. artist Michael David Little, who recounts his days sleep- Aboriginal and British decent. He has written and ing outside and painting on anything and everywhere directed for both drama and documentary, and has The Chronic Misadventures of Justice and he could. directed a number of programs for Message Sticks Giggles...Indigenous Street Gangsters on ABC TV, and was also a video journalist for Director: Jason Krowe Michael David Little (Navajo) is a visual artist living Living Black, with SBS Television. His documentary Canada · 6 min · 2008 · Beta SP and working in Phoenix, Arizona. credits include: Desperate Times, Ankula Watjarira and Back To The Yumba. When Colin Met Joyce is Tamou’s World Premiere 5 Seconds of Fame first feature-length documentary. Director: Alec Butler In this hilarious satire on gangster-genre movies, Justice Canada · 1 min · 2007 · Beta SP and Two-Spirits are forced to negotiate a “treaty” with Co-presented by an Italian mobster to prevent an all-out war. A tongue-in-cheek reference to Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes of Fame, this video love-letter is a celebration of Jason Krowe (Cree/Czech/Irish) is a video artist and unity and inspiration in the two-spirited community. accomplished performer. His previous films Inside, Hiding and Finding Charlie have screened at imagin- Alec Butler (Métis) is an award-winning playwright, eNATIVE in 2006 and 2007. two-spirited activist and filmmaker whose trilogy of animated films, Misadventures of Pussy Boy, have been screened at festivals throughout North Ameri- can and abroad.
76 77 Sunday 3pm | OCT. 19 Sunday 5pm | OCT. 19 SHORTS PROGRAM II SACRED SUNDANCE Al Green Theatre Al Green Theatre
GRIP Bingo Road Sacred Sundance
You Are A Lesbian Vampire Bingo Road Sacred Sundance Director: Thirza Cuthand Director: Keith Lawrence Director: Brian Francis Canada · 3.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Canada · 22 min · 2008 · Beta SP Canada · 68 min · 2007 · Beta SP
World Premiere Ontario Premiere Ontario Premiere
What’s a lesbian vampire to do when she falls for the new Two small town rivals find common ground on their way The Sundance is a sacred ceremony that was traditionally known as a practice amongst girl? Find out in this funny and original short. to the bingo hall. Indigenous nations across the plains of North America. When elders from the community of Big Cove, New Brunswick seek advice about the epidemic of suicides and substance Thirza Cuthand (Cree) is a queer bipolar video Keith Lawrence (Métis) has directed over 10 short abuse plaguing their community, Chief William Nevin encourages them to bring the artist based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her films and is currently filming a six-part series for the ceremony to the East Coast. There is a condition – the Mi’kmaq must be responsible for groundbreaking and brave works have been Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. a four-year transition period and whole-heartedly dedicate themselves to this rigorous screened at festivals internationally. process. The Mi’kmaq accept the challenge and begin a journey that leads them to embrace a new tradition. This remarkable documentary captures the significance and profound Continental Divide healing power of the Sundance ceremony and the fierce commitment that is required by Director: Brooke Swaney Co-presented by any individual who endeavours to face the challenges inherent in this sacred ritual. USA · 13.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP Brian Francis (Mi’kmaq) is a writer, director and producer whose credits include Canadian Premiere the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network series Eastern Tide, and the documentary Circle of Justice, which screened at the Atlantic Film Festival and the New York Stilted and endearing Angus pours on the awkward International Independent Film Festival. Francis has also managed the Aboriginal charm in order to attract the attention of Francis and recording artists Eagle Feather. Francis lives in Big Cove, New Brunswick. escape a weekend of torment from his crazed family.
Brooke Swaney’s (Blackfeet/Salish) previous short Indigenoid played at several festivals and was nomi- nated for best live short at the 2005 American Indian Film Festival. She is currently studying film at the Tisch School of Arts in New York.
GRIP Director: Jennifer Dysart Canada · 8.5 min · 2008 · Beta SP
World Premiere
A young woman who wakes one morning to find her hands irrevocably clenched into fists seeks guidance only a mother can give.
Jennifer Dysart (Cree/Scottish/German) is currently completing a Masters in Fine Arts from York Univer- sity in Toronto. Her previous film I’ll Sing To You screened at imagineNATIVE in 2006.
78 79 Sunday 7pm | OCT. 19 OLDER THAN AMERICA Closing Night Screening, Royal Cinema
Presented by Older Than America Director: Georgina Lightning USA · 102 min · 2007 · Digital Beta
Ontario Premiere
Palace A government worker goes to small a Indian reservation Director: Richard Story in Minnesota to investigate a mysterious earthquake. Canada · 7 min · 2008 · Beta SP He befriends the local police chief (Adam Beach), who leads him to an abandoned school at the heart of World Premiere the quake. What he finds there is a legacy of abuse and torture, as a young woman’s vision tells of a Lorne Cardinal stars as a shattered man slowly trying terrifying past. Gripping and often unsettling, Older to recover and get a grip on an increasingly elusive than America is a potent thriller about the legacy reality in this sophisticated, stylized psychological of Indian Boarding and Residential Schools in the thriller that will leave you breathless. USA and Canada, and the true horror of this little discussed chapter of North American history. Coast Salish, Squamish/Kanaka filmmaker Richard Story co-wrote, directed, shot and Georgina Lightning is a well-known actor, appearing produced Palace. As well as programming and in Johnny Greyeyes and episodes of The West Wing teaching, Richard has written and directed over and Walker, Texas Ranger. Older than America is her 70 shorts and two feature length films, including directorial debut. Echo Lake in 2000.
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80 81 Sunday 9pm | OCT. 19 Thursday | OCT. 16 CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS CEREMONY PRESENTED BY BIG SOUL PRODUCTIONS WORKSHOPS & PANELS FREE Doors open at 9p.m. Miles Nadal JCC, 3rd Floor Revival Bar 783 College Street Workshops and panels are free and open to the public. Seating preference will be given to festival delegates, then will be on a first-come, first-serve basis
Join us for the Closing Night Awards where winners of 10am-11:45pm the 2008 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival RAPID RELEASE: HOW CAN INTERNET AND ALTER- Sudz Sutherland NATIVE DISTRIBUTION METHODS CO-EXIST WITH Writer/Director/Executive Producer will be announced! Celebrate this year’s incredible CLASSIC DISTRIBUTION? Sudz Sutherland works on both sides of the fence as a talents with our host Darrell Dennis, writer of Moccasin freelance writer and director for Dramas and Documen- With the internet rapidly changing traditional models of taries. His latest feature film project, “Toronto Stories,” Flats, co-founder of Tonto’s Nephews, and a regular distribution and filmmakers increasingly sharing their was conceived in conjunction with 3 other rising direc- voice on CBC Radio. work on sites like Facebook and YouTube, these panel- tors and was invited to TIFF 2008. Sudz recently com- ists will share their insights into the smartest way to dis- pleted the dramatic miniseries “Guns” for CBC based on Darrell Dennis tribute your film in the 21st century. From the perspec- four families caught up in illegal gun trafficking. Sudz tives of film distributors, internet distributors, festivals, also wrote and directed the triple Gemini award-winning and broadcasters, get the lowdown on the best release (Best Direction, Best Supporting actress, Best Television Winners will be announced in the following categories: strategy for your film and the dos and don’ts of releasing Movie) “Doomstown,” an MOW for CTV/Sarrazin-Cou- a film. This panel will also launch two innovative Internet ture. Sudz’ sophomore feature film “Home Again,” slated distribution forums: Isuma.TV and DigitalDrum.ca for production this year, is the follow up to his multiple Canwest Mentorship Program Best Arts & Entertainment Radio award-winning and Genie nominated debut feature 2008 Mentoree Introduction by Stephen Finney Presented by Astral Media Radio Moderator: Eileen Arandiga, Board member and film “Love, Sex and Eating the Bones.” He is currently Fest Director, WWSFF developing two other feature films, “The Way The Ball (Mentor), Production Executive, Drama Con- $500 Bounces” and “Operation Red Dog.” tent, Canwest Broadcasting Tom Alexander Best Documentary, Current Affairs Director, Theatrical Releasing Shane Belcourt Drama Pitch Prize & Talk Radio Mongrel Media (www.mongrelmedia.com) Writer/Director/Musician Presented by APTN Presented by Astral Media Radio Shane Belcourt is an award-winning Métis filmmaker, $5,000 Development Deal with APTN $500 Phillip Djwa writer, and musician based in Toronto. His feature film, Producer “Tkaronto,” has played many international film festivals, Documentary Pitch Prize Best New Media DigitalDrum.ca (www.agentic.ca) most recently winning the “Best Director” prize at the 2008 Dreamspeakers Film Festival and 2008 Talking Presented by CBC Newsworld Presented by Vtape Shane Smith Stick Film Festival, and has since been sold to a national One-month use of CBC’s 3CCD $1,000 cash award Executive Producer, Inflight Entertainment distributor (Kinosmith Films) which has released the 1080i HDV Camera Spafax (www.spafax.com) film across Canada. Shane’s two short films, “The The Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Squeeze Box” and “Pookums” have been picked up and Best Music Video Emerging Talent Norman Cohn and Zacharius Kunuk sold to national Canadian TV networks and are featured Presented by imagineNATIVE Presented by Vtape Creators of IsumaTV (www.isuma.tv) on IsumaTV. Alongside the dramatic work, Shane $500 cash award $1,000 cash award continues to make documentary films as a director and cinematographer and has two projects in development, a half-hour documentary on problem gambling in Ab- Best Experimental Best Dramatic Feature 12:00pm-1:45pm original communities and a short animated documentary Presented by Images Festival Presented by CTVglobemedia HAROLD GREENBERG SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP: about growing up the son of a Métis rights leader, “Red $1,000 cash award $1,500 cash award THE SHORT AND LONG OF GOOD STORYTELLING Car, Blue Hood.” Shane and his co-writing partner, Duane Murray, are developing a variety of projects, most Best Canadian Short Drama Best Indigenous Language {photos: shane + action shot AND Photo of Sudz + action notably the next feature film. Presented by IsumaTV Production Award shot) $1,000 cash award Presented by the Canadian Television Fund Shane was the recipient of the 2007 IFC Mentorship $1,000 cash award Presented by Award and one of 22 filmmakers chosen for the 2007 Best Short Drama TIFF Talent Lab. Most recently Shane wrote and directed the 2008 imagineNATIVE festival trailer “Indian Presented by Movieola – The Alanis Obomsawin Best Jane.” The Short Film Channel Documentary Award $1,000 cash award Presented by the National Film Board of Canada This workshop puts emerging writer and director Shane Best Short Documentary $1,500 cash award Belcourt in conversation with Writer, Director and Presented by CBC News Executive Producer David “Sudz” Sutherland. This $1,000 cash award intimate discussion will delve into the multiple layers involved in writing a feature length film, and allow these two artists to compare notes in terms of their processes, tips for good scriptwriting, and experiences working within the landscape of Canadian film. Thank you to our jury members who have dedicated numerous hours to the selection of imagineNATIVE’s 2008 award winners, and congratulations to this years winners!
82 83 Friday | OCT. 17 Saturday | OCT. 18 WORKSHOPS & PANELS FREE WORKSHOPS & PANELS FREE Miles Nadal JCC, 3rd Floor Miles Nadal JCC, 3rd Floor
2:00pm - 3:45pm 10am – 11:15am 11:30am -12:45pm 10am-11:45am MEET THE BUYERS: WHO BUYS WHAT? WHAT’S UP DOC? DOCUMENTARY PITCH COMPETI- SHOW ME THE DRAMA! PITCH COMPETITION FOR BRING ON THE BLING! EXPLORING CREATIVE AND TION DRAMATIC WORKS TRADITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES This jam-packed panel will feature visiting international and Canadian buyers attending this year’s imagineNA- Do you have a great idea for a short (under 23 min) Get your idea heard by the people who can make it Seeking funding for your next project? Looking for new TIVE Festival. Find out what they are looking for, how documentary? Come and pitch to an audience of com- happen! This is your opportunity to pitch your idea for ideas? Get the scoop on funding sources as this year’s much they will pay, what rights they want to secure, missioning editors and acquisitions executives from the a short, long, or series drama to broadcasters who will panelists tackle everything from broadcast pre-sales, and other important information to help your current or major Canadian broadcasters. Pitches have been pre-se- provide valuable feedback. Pitches have been pre-se- seeking private funds, seed grants, Aboriginal funding future projects reach their audiences? lected by the imagineNATIVE Programming Committee lected by the imagineNATIVE Programming Committee streams, and raising money through the Internet. and pitch team representatives have received a free and pitch team representatives have received a free Moderator: Jason Ryle one-day intensive pitch training session from industry one-day intensive pitch training session from industry Moderator: Gisele Gordon Writer/Director/Programmer, imagineNATIVE Board professional Deborah Day. If time permits, Wild Card professional Deborah Day. If time permits, Wild Card Director, Producer, imagineNATIVE Board Vice-Chair Chair pitches will be accepted from the audience. Wild Card pitches may be accepted from the audience. Wild Card pitches are not eligible for the award. The Documentary pitches are not eligible for the award. The Drama Pitch Stéphane Cardin Guadalupe Arensburg, Acquisitions & Programming, Pitch winner will receive the use of CBC Newsworld’s winner will take home a $5,000 Development Deal from VP of Strategic Policy Planning & Stakeholder Relations Canal + Espagne, Spain (www.plus.es) 3CCD HDV camera for one month. The winner will be Aboriginal Peoples’ Television Network (APTN). The Canadian Television Fund (www.canadiantelevisionfund.ca) announced at the Closing Night Awards (see page ?? ). winner will be announced at the Closing Night Awards Li-Yi Chien, Acquisitions Manager, Producer, Taiwan (see page #) Anne Frank Indigenous Television, Moderator: Deborah Day Content Analyst TITV Cinema, Taiwan (www.titv.org.tw/about_e1.htm) Director, Producer, Co-Founder of Canadian Accents Moderator: Deborah Day Telefilm Canada (www.telefilm.gc.ca) (www.canadianaccents.ca) Director, Producer, Co-Founder of Canadian Accents Tanya Denning, Commissioning Editor, National Indig- (www.canadianaccents.ca) John Galway enous TV Limited, Australia (www.nitv.org.au) Naomi Boxer President, English Language Documentary Programmer, TVOntario Trish Williams Astral Media The Harold Greenberg Fund João Garção Borges, Programmer and Buyer, ONDA Documentaries (www.tvo.org) Manager, Development & Productions, CTVglobemedia CURTA (Short Wave), RTP2 (TV Public Service of Sudha Krishna Portugal) (www.rtp.pt) Charlotte Engel Stephen Finney Director of Cross-Media Production & Co-founder Production Executive, Documentary and Alternative Production Executive, Drama Content, Canwest Broad- Nimble TV (www.thenimblecompany.com) Kyle Harris, Acquisitions Manager, Free Speech TV, Programming casting USA (www.freespeech.org) CTV Television Inc (www.ctv.ca) Catherine Kunz Desiree Single Account Manager, Commercial Banking, T.V. and Motion Joe Kulin, Media Consultant, Global Spirit, LINK TV Sarah Jane Flynn Manger of Programming, Central Region, Aboriginal Picture Group, National Bank (www.nbc.ca) (www.linktv.org) Director, Factual Content, Peoples Television Network (www.aptn.ca) Canwest Broadcasting (www.canwest.com) Bird Runningwater Jack Ofield, Executive Producer, The Short List, PBS, Robin Neinstein Programmer, Associate Director, Native-American and Cox Media, USA, Movieola, Canada Andrew Johnson Executive in Charge of Production, Drama, CBC Televi- Indigenous Initiative Commissioning Editor, The Lens sion (www.cbc.ca) Sundance Film Festival (www.sundance.org/festival) Manutai Schuster, Head of Acquisitions & Commis- CBC Newsworld (www.cbc.ca/thelens) sioning, Māori Television, New Zealand (www.maoritele- vision.com) {PHOTOs: of Lisa, Jennifer and Lisa’s productions} Desiree Single, Manger of Programming, Central Region, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Canada (www.aptn.ca)
84 85 Saturday | OCT. 18 WORKSHOPS & PANELS FREE Miles Nadal JCC, 3rd Floor
12:00pm-1:30pm 1:45-3:00 super 8 / 16 ONE ON ONE WITH PRODUCER LISA MEECHES Co-Presented by Spirit Magazine WALKING THE LINE: DOES PORTRAYING HARSH high resolution transfers . cinematography Get the in’s and out’s of producing from one of the most REALITIES REINFORCE NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES? dynamic and respected Aboriginal Producers in Canada, Lisa Meeches. Meeches will share her insight and Do Indigenous filmmakers have a responsibility to reflect experience in the realms of Canadian television and film positive images of themselves in order to counter nega- production, followed by a question and answer •period. tive stereotypes? In this panel, filmmakers will address what it means to express a story or explore a character Moderator: Jennifer Podemski in a meaningful and authentic way. The filmmakers will Producer, Actor discuss whether or not they have an ethical responsibil- ity to leave the darker aspects of a story, character or “super 8 has never looked so good...” Jennifer Podemski is an award winning actor/producer subject’s personality on the cutting room floor, as well and is the president of Redcloud Studios Inc. an inde- as the challenges of fighting for the story they feel must pendent film and television production company based be told. in Toronto. Jennifer ‘s most recent projects include: Rab- bit Fall I & II, a supernatural crime drama for APTN and Moderator: Lisa Jackson Space; Sight Unseen, a feature length drama in develop- ment with the Canadian Film Centre and she is currently • Writer, Director, Producer the Co-Executive Producer of the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards (Global Television, APTN, E!) • Andrew Maclean, Director, Sikumi
Lisa Meeches: • Tracey Deer, Filmmaker, Club Native Lisa Meeches began her career in 1986 with the Win- music videos . commercials . short films . film archiving nipeg-based Native Media Network where she worked • Darlene Johnson, Director, River of No Return inquiries . 416.803.1101 . www.framediscreet.com compiling radio reports for a native talk show. Her professional work experience then broadened to include • Hubert Davis, Director, Hardwood and Aruba news reporting for Craig Broadcasting Systems where she established a liaison team who connected the newsroom with surrounding First Nations communi- ties. In 2002, Meeches completed the Alliance Atlantis Executive Producers’ Program at The Banff Centre, honing her skills with some of the top names in Canadian Festivals bring production. She is now an Executive Producer and the President of two Winnipeg-based production compa- people together. nies, Eagle Vision Inc. and Meeches Video Productions, and the Co-President of Century Street Distribution. Meeches was a Producer on Elijah - the true story of Every year, OLG supports many events Elijah Harper, one of the greatest heroes in Canadian that benefit the people of Ontario. Aboriginal political history - which Eagle Vision co-pro- Proceeds from our Lotteries, duced with Anagram Pictures for CTV and APTN. She is also the Executive Producer, Producer, and Co-Host of Resort Casinos, OLG Slots and the award winning series The Sharing Circle, currently in OLG Casinos go towards festivals, production of its sixteenth season. She is an Executive fairs and events in communities Producer of Tipi Tales, currently in its Third Season, and large and small across the province. of the documentaries Polygamy’s Lost Boys, The Spirit of Norway House and Where Three Rivers Meet. We hope you have a great time at In 2007 Lisa Meeches was awarded and Aboriginal the imagineNATIVE Film Achievement Award for her work. She lives in Winnipeg, and Media Arts Festival. Manitoba.
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