Actress-director-writer-producer Devery Jacobs discusses her career-long love of storytelling, from Rhymes for Young Ghouls to Reservation Dogs. In Jeff …
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Indigenous Cinema
Indigenous filmmakers from around the world discuss both decolonizing cinema and their technical process.
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 …
‘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. The …
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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 …
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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 …
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Joshua Demers on his Canadian political satire, Québexit
Québexit director and co-writer Joshua Demers on shooting a film in three languages with 20 actors in 12 days, and what the film reveals about …
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