14th Annual PRESENTING SPONSOR film + media arts festival OCTOBER www.imagineNATIVE.org 16 – 20 Download the imagineNATIVE A iPhone app B 1 2 3 Presenting Sponsor: Platinum: Gold: HEX 333092 PANTONE 182-2U PANTONE VIOLET Silver: UNCOATED PAPER COATED PAPER Bronze: Media: 4 Public Funders: Community Partners: No'kmaq Village Festival Hotel: Festival Restaurant: Hospitality: Friends: Foundations: DHL (www.dhl.com) Inspirit Foundation Niagara Custom Lab (www.niagaracustomlab.com) The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation SABAR (www.sabar.ca) Ontario Trillium Foundation Technicolor (www.technicolor.com) 5 6 14th Annual film + media arts festival www.imagineNATIVE.org About imagineNATIVE 8 Festival Board + Staff 9 Festival Village Venues + Map 10 Special Events 12 Box Office Info 13 Festival Workshop & Screening Schedule 14 Acknowledgements 18 In Memoriam: August Schellenberg 19 Festival Greetings 20 Special Programming 29 The Uncanny Art Crawl 29 Lovesick Child 30 Trade Marks 34 in Pursuit of Venus 34 In the Similkameen / Similkameen Crossroads 35 Ghost Dance / Time Traveller 35 International Spotlight on the Maori Nation 36 indigiTALKS Video Essay Project 38 COYOTE X 39 iN the Sky: Indigenous Canadian Shorts with Air Canada! 39 New Media Works 40 Commissioned Works 42 Radio Works 43 Opening Gala Celebration 45 Thursday, October 17 46 Friday, October 18 56 Saturday, October 19 65 Awards Jury 76 Awards Show 77 Sunday, October 20 81 Closing Gala Screening 87 Industry Series Workshops & Panels 91 Mediatheque 95 Print Source Index 96 Artist Index 101 Country/Province Index 102 7 The five-day imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and imagineNATIVE’s year-round initiatives – including the imagineNATIVE Film + Video Tour and the indigiFLIX Community Screening Series – fill a void in the artistic and cultural landscapes of Toronto in which Indigenous filmmakers and media artists are often underrepresented imagineNATIVE or misrepresented. Film + Media Arts Festival imagineNATIVE showcases, promotes and celebrates 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 349 emerging and established Canadian and international Toronto, ON Indigenous filmmakers and media artists. M5V 3A8 Canada imagineNATIVE is committed to dispelling stereotypical Tel: +1 416 585 2333 notions of Indigenous peoples through diverse media Fax: +1 416 585 2313 presentations from within our communities, thereby [email protected] contributing to a greater understanding by audiences of www.imagineNATIVE.org Indigenous artistic expression. www.facebook.com/imagineNATIVE www.twitter.com/imagineNATIVE imagineNATIVE focuses on new and innovative film, video, www.youtube.com/imagineNATIVE radio and new media works. Programming includes annual retrospectives, curated programs, international spotlights and presentations of significant groundbreaking and The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival celebrates legacy works. the latest works by Indigenous artists at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media. Each fall, imagineNATIVE plays an important role in the dissemination the Festival presents a selection of the most compelling and exportation of Indigenous works by promoting and and distinctive Indigenous works from Canada and around exhibiting artists’ films, videos, radio and new media works the globe. The Festival’s screenings, panel discussions and to Canadian and international festivals, markets, distributors social and cultural events attract and connect filmmakers, and broadcasters and by facilitating sales and acquisitions. media artists, programmers, buyers and industry profes- sionals. The works accepted reflect the diversity of the imagineNATIVE provides Indigenous filmmakers, media world’s Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and artists and curators with professional development excellence of our art and culture in contemporary media. opportunities in the form of workshops and other activities geared to enhancing creative and professional skills. Since its inception in 1998, imagineNATIVE (known also as imagineNATIVE pays industry-standard artists fees for all the Centre for Aboriginal Media, imagineNATIVE’s legal entity) its initiatives. continues to evolve to reflect the needs of its constituencies. Founded by Cynthia Lickers-Sage and Vtape with the help of other community partners, imagineNATIVE is now regarded imagineNATIVE is a Registered Charity as one of the most important Indigenous film and media #898938717 RR0001 arts festivals in the world. To donate, please visit: www.imagineNATIVE.org 8 Top: Lindsay Monture, Jacquie Carpenter, Isidra Cruz, Jason Ryle, Jessica Lea Fleming Bottom: Daniel Northway-Frank, Audrey Rochette, Sage Paul, Violet Chum Left to Right: Marcia Nickerson, Denise Bolduc, Kathleen Meek, Charlotte Engel, Eileen Arandiga, Shane Belcourt, Steven Loft, Andre Morriseau, Connie Walker Board of Directors Staff Design Team Marcia Nickerson (Chair) Executive Director: Jason Ryle Festival Creative: Denise Bolduc (Vice-Chair) Office Manager: Violet Chum Terry Lau, beehivedesign.com Kathleen Meek (Treasurer) Events + Communications Director: Year-round and Web Creative: Charlotte Engel (Secretary) Sage Paul Sebastien Aubin, sa-design.ca Eileen Arandiga Events + Outreach Coordinator: Illustration: Richard Pace, Shane Belcourt Jacquie Carpenter burningmonster.blogspot.com Steven Loft Development Manager: Trailer Animation: James Monkman, Andre Morriseau Jessica Lea Fleming jamesmonkman.com Connie Walker Development + Tourism Web Development: Coordinator: Audrey Rochette Maaiingan Productions, Advisors Programming + Industry Manager: maaiingan.com Gisele Gordon Daniel Northway-Frank Jesse Wente Programmer: Michelle Latimer Events and Marketing Team Programming Coordinator: Shane Belcourt Patrons Lindsay Monture Jacquie Carpenter Roberta Jamieson Guest Services Coordinator: Charlotte Engel Rhonda Kite Isidra Cruz Andre Morriseau Frank Meawasige Volunteer Manager: Sage Paul Laura Michalchyshyn Amy Rouillard Jason Ryle Alanis Obomsawin Front-of-House Manager: Connie Walker Bill Roberts Victoria Kucher Carla Robinson Technical Coordinator: Eyan Logan Publicity N. Bird Runningwater Catalogue Editor: Semareh Al-Hillal Carrie Sager, President Lisa Steele FLIP Publicity Kim Tomczak Programming Team Flip-publicity.com Patrick Watson Shane Belcourt [email protected] Margaret Zeidler Denise Bolduc Michelle Latimer Steven Loft Marcia Nickerson Daniel Northway-Frank Jason Ryle 9 SCREENING VENUES: CONCERT VENUE: 1 TIFF Bell Lightbox 7 Black Box Theatre / The Great Hall Downstairs Reitman Square, 350 King Street West 1087 Queen Street West (north side on King Street, east of Spadina Avenue, (southeast corner at Dovercourt Road west of University Avenue) on Queen Street West, west of Ossington Avenue) Cinema 1, 2 & 3: Second Floor Cinema 4 & 5: Third Floor Mediatheque + Industry Series: Third & Fourth Floor FestivaL hoteL: Tickets & Info + 1-416-599-TIFF (8433) 8 Hilton Garden Inn 2 Bloor Hot Docs Cinema 92 Peter Street 506 Bloor Street West (west side on Peter Street, one block north (north side of Bloor Street, & east of of King Street West) Bathurst Street; Subway Station: Bathurst) EVENTS VENUES: FestivaL Restaurant: 3 Native Canadian Centre of Toronto 9 The Charlotte Room 16 Spadina Road 19 Charlotte Street (west side on Spadina Road, ½ block (on Charlotte Street, south of Adelaide Street West) north of Bloor Street) 4 The Everleigh HOSPITALITY PARTNERS: 580 King Street West (north side on King Street, west of Spadina 10 Super 8 Downtown Toronto & east of Bathurst Street) 222 Spadina Avenue 5 The Hoxton 11 Global Village Backpackers 69 Bathurst Street 460 King Street West (east side on Bathurst Street, ½ block south of King Street) 12 Tea-N-Bannock 1294 Gerrard Street East 6 Art Exhibits 401 Richmond Street West 13 Pancho y Emiliano (south side on Richmond Street, ½ block 200 Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market east of Spadina Avenue) 14 The Eaton Centre A Space Gallery, Suite 110 220 Yonge Street Gallery 44, Suite 120 Prefix, Suite 124 10 1 TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX - MAIN VENUE & BOX OFFICE 2 BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA DAVENPORT 3 NATIVE CANADIAN CENTRE OF TORONTO THE EVERLEIGH 4 VENUE RD DUPONT A 5 THE HOXTON E CH Y S 6 ART EXHIBITS N BA NG TO BATHURST 2 3 SPADINA AW BLACK BOX THEATRE / THE GREAT HALL DOWNSTAIRS BLOOR YO CHUR JARVI SHERBOURNE 7 SH SING 8 HILTON GARDEN INN OS 9 THE CHARLOTTE ROOM HARBORD WELLESLEY 10 SUPER 8 DOWNTOWN TORONTO 11 GLOBAL VILLAGE BACKPACKERS COLLEGE CARLTON E A 12 TEA-N-BANNOCK T AV 13 CAUL Y PANCHO Y EMILIANO MC THURS 13 ADINA AUGUST SP BA DUNDAS 14 THE EATON CENTRE BEVERLE UNIVERSITY 10 14 7 QUEEN T RICHMOND S E N UR WN TO ALLE ADELAIDE CO AW SH VER KING SING NCESV OS LANSDO DUFFERIN DO RO EAST-END DOWNTOWN CORE CLOSE-UP CLOSE-UP 12 VE. GERRARD QUEEN VE. OOD A OSGOODE XWELL A GREENW DUNDAS CO RICHMOND T 6 E OE ST AV THURS ADINA DUNCAN ST SIMC SP PETER ST JOHN ST BA PORTLAND BRANT TTE LO ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY CHAR 9 8 4 11 1 KING 5 ST. ANDREW 11 Welcome Gathering Trade Marks [pg. 34] FREE and open to the public (all ages) By Keesic Douglas, Meryl McMaster, Presented by Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment and Training Nigit’stil Norbert, Bear Witness and TD Bank Group Curated by Betty Julian Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Suite 124 Wednesday, October 16 September 19 to November 23, 2013, Time: 2:00 – 4:00pm Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm–5pm Native Canadian Centre of Toronto Artist & Curator Talk: Friday, October 18, 7:30pm Presented by Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art Welcome to our 14th annual Festival