Seven must-see Indigenous-made films of 2019
“Best of” lists proliferate every December, and before we add to the annual offering of film favourites, here’s a short note on the selective, subjective celebration of cinema.
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Handmade Indigenous crafts that will make your Christmas memorable
Over the last 10 years, many Indigenous designers and artisans have gone from running small side businesses to operating online boutiques through social-media platforms.
NISK intergenerational project takes flight in Montreal
“We are in the time of prophecy: the youth are going to take Indigenous wisdom and resurrect it through their art and their stories because they are going to inherit what we leave behind.”
The imagineNATIVE festival at 20
At the awards ceremony for the 20th imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival this year, Cree artist Kent Monkman – while giving out an award named in his honour – quipped that the featival was getting old, old enough to have sex.
Violent Ground picks up three awards for recent album
Many Indigenous stories have been passed down generations as songs. For Indigenous hip-hop group Violent Ground, music is still a way to share stories about their lives and experiences growing up in the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach.
Film depicts Kuujjuaq in the 1940s and 1950s
The highly anticipated Inuit-focused film Restless River premiered October 12 at Montreal’s New Cinema Festival to a lively reception.
Myriam Verreault discusses the making of Kuessipan, an Innu coming-of-age film
“The question, ‘How do I define myself as a person?’ has always been one that has fascinated me,” expressed filmmaker Myriam Verreault, director of Kuessipan.
Footprints: A Walk Through Generations gets prestigious showing at Museum of History
For as long as there have been Cree, the Cree have been defining their landscapes.
The tops and no bottoms of Osheaga
Descending into Parc Jean-Drapeau’s festival crowds and dust in the sweltering heat for three days of incredible music and ambiance that is the Osheaga music festival has become a summer ritual.