Métis/Dene filmmaker and playwright Marie Clements discusses her musical documentary, The Road Forward, which chronicles Canada’s Indigenous Civil Rights Movement.
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Inuk director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril talks Angry Inuk, seal hunting
Inuk filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril discusses seal hunting and the making of Angry Inuk, which is one of Canada’s Top Ten Films of 2016.
Métis director Terril Calder discusses her TIFF16 short SNIP
Métis filmmaker Terril Calder’s SNIP reckons with Canada’s past violence toward indigenous people through the residential school system.
Interview: Chloé Leriche on Before the Streets and indigenous cinema
Canadian director Chloé Leriche discusses bringing the Atikamekw language and community to the big screen for the first time at this year’s Berlinale.
Fire Song presents an authentic, First Nations queer narrative
Adam Garnet Jones’ Fire Song is a frank portrait of indigenous LGBT people and how depression and isolation intersect within a First Nation community.