Writer-director Darlene Naponse on Falls Around Her, making a film about an unconventional protagonist, capturing the beauty of a landscape through both visuals and sound, and the respect and care required to film on reservation land. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
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Director Warwick Thornton on his TIFF Platform Prize Winner Sweet Country
Indigenous Australian director Warwick Thornton talks being his own cinematographer on Sweet Country, shooting on Alexa and UV, and developing the film’s aesthetic.
[Read more…] about Director Warwick Thornton on his TIFF Platform Prize Winner Sweet Country‘It was exciting to see the possibilities that should be there for all’: Alanis Obomsawin on Our People Will Be Healed
Documentarian Alanis Obomsawin discusses Our People Will Be Healed, depicting community, gaining the trust of her subjects, and centering their voices in her 50th film on contemporary indigenous issues in Canada. This is an excerpt from our ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol 1, which is available to purchase here.
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Contrasting the patriotism of the Olympics with daily struggles in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Luk’Luk’I explores the shallowness of national identity.
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Writer-director Amanda Kernell talks Sami Blood
Amanda Kernell discusses her exquisite feature debut, “a coming-of-age story, with joik and blood, about a girl with a knife,” and how it illuminates South Sami history. Read our review of Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood. Read our review of Kernell’s second feature, Charter.
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Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood is an astonishingly accomplished and movie feature debut, which follows an Indigenous Swedish girl caught between two worlds. Read our interview with writer-director Amanda Kernell. Read our review of Kernell’s second feature, Charter.
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