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Indigenous Cinema

Indigenous filmmakers from around the world discuss both decolonizing cinema and their technical process.

A still of filmmaker Zoe Leigh Hopkins, in front of an orange sphere, and in front of a still from her film, Run Woman Run.

Orla Smith / April 27, 2022

Zoe Leigh Hopkins tells an uplifting story about healing in Run Woman Run

Zoe Leigh Hopkins, director of the feature film Run Woman Run, talks about telling a different kind of coming-of-age-in-your-thirties story, filming in her home …

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A headshot of actress Devery Jacobs from Reservation Dogs, with her latest name, 'Jacobs', written several times behind her head.

Alex Heeney / September 8, 2021

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. In Jeff …

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A still from Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy next to a headshot of director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. The text on the image reads, 'Interview'.

Orla Smith / May 14, 2021

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 …

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Alex Heeney / March 9, 2021

‘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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Alex Heeney / March 2, 2021

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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Alex Heeney / November 25, 2020

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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