Zoe Leigh Hopkins, director of Run Woman Run, talks about telling a different kind of coming-of-age-in-your-thirties story, filming in her home of Six Nations, and more.
Indigenous Cinema
Indigenous filmmakers from around the world discuss both decolonizing cinema and their technical process.
Devery Jacobs: ‘I had never seen it be done until I started doing it’
Actress-director-writer-producer Devery Jacobs discusses her career-long love of storytelling, from Rhymes for Young Ghouls to Reservation Dogs.
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers on her vital new documentary
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy chronicles the opioid crisis facing the people of the Kainai First Nation and how “harm reduction” practices can save them.
‘In the Innu language, every word is an image’: Kim O’Bomsawin on Call Me Human
Abenaki filmmaker Kim O’Bomsawin discusses her documentary Call Me Human (Je m’appelle humain) and telling the story of Joséphine Bacon and her friends.
Danis Goulet on her Indigenous sci-fi thriller Night Raiders
Cree filmmaker Danis Goulet discusses her feature debut Night Raiders, which looks at motherhood and the horrors of residential schools through a sci-fi lens.
Sonia Boileau on telling a human story about MMIWG in Rustic Oracle
Mohawk writer-director Sonia Boileau discusses her new film Rustic Oracle about the human side of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls crisis in Canada.