We Are Still Here won the Dramatic Feature Award, and Šaamšiǩ – Great Grandmothers Hat took the Documentary Feature Award at the 2022 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
ImagineNative (imagineNATIVE) Film + Media Arts Festival
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2022 imagineNATIVE Film Festival Announces Award-Winning Films – We Are Still Here, Šaamšiǩ – Great Grandmothers Hat
We Are Still Here and Šaamšiǩ – Great Grandmothers Hat
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Gary Farmer to be Honored at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Gary Farmer Actor and musician Gary Farmer will receive the 2022 August Schellenberg Award of Excellence, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
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Toronto’s imagineNATIVE Film Festival 2022 Goes Hybrid in October
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (via Facebook) The 23rd annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival welcomes artists and audiences back to Toronto/Tkaronto for IN-PERSON screenings and events October 18 – 23, 2022. imagineNATIVE will also present the Festival ONLINE from October 24 – 30, 2022.
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‘Bootlegger’ and ‘Warrior Spirit’ Win Top Awards at 2021 imagineNATIVE Film Festival
Joséphine Bacon, Devery Jacobs, and C,S, Gilbert Crazy Horse in Bootlegger directed by Caroline Monnet Caroline Monnet won the Dramatic Feature Award for Bootlegger and Landon Dyksterhouse won the Documentary Feature Award for Warrior Spirit at the 2021 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
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imagineNATIVE Film Festival 2021 to Showcase Over 145 Indigenous Works. Opens with Danis Goulet’s ‘Night Raiders’
Waseese (Brooklyn Letexier-Hart) and Niska (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) in Night Raiders directed by Danis Goulet The 22nd Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will showcase over 145 works from artists representing 51 Indigenous nations giving voice to over 26 Indigenous languages- at live in-person and virtual events from October 19-24, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario.
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“The Legend of Baron To’a” and “Compañía” Win Top Awards at 2020 imagineNATIVE Film Festival
The Legend of Baron To’a directed by Kiel McNaughton The 2020 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival announced the winning film, video, audio, and digital media works from Canadian and international Indigenous artists. The award for Best Dramatic Feature along with a $7,500 cash prize went to The Legend of Baron To’a directed by Kiel McNaughton; and the award for Best Documentary Work Long Format along with a $5,000 cash prize Miguel Hilari’s Compañía.
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Canadian Premiere of “Compañía,” Tantoo Cardinal among imagineNATIVE Film Festival 2020 Lineup
Compañía directed by Miguel Hilari The 21st Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will take place online October 20 – 25, 2020, showcasing work by Indigenous artists. imagineNATIVE will open the Festival with the shorts program YELLOW, composed of works created by artists from seven different nations. imagineNATIVE will close October 25 with the Canadian premiere of Compañía by Bolivian director Miguel Hilari.
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imagineNATIVE Film Festival Announces 2020 Lineup – Inconvenient Indian, Monkey Beach, Love and Fury, and more
Inconvenient Indian, directed by Michelle Latimer The 21st Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, running online October 20 – 25, 2020, today announced the lineup of feature length films, short programs, the recipient of the 2020 August Schellenberg Award of Excellence, and more.
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imagineNATIVE Film Festival 2020 to Open with Short Films Program, Closes with Miguel Hilari’s “Compañía”
Alisi Telengut, The Fourfold, 2020. Video still. Short Documentary YELLOW program For the first time ever, this year’s 21st edition of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival set to take place entirely online, from October 20 – 25, 2020, will open with a shorts film program. Throughout the Festival four short programs will be screened, each named after one of the four colors in the medicine wheel. For the Opening Gala on Tuesday, October 20, imagineNATIVE begins in the YELLOW quadrant and will feature a gathering of international short films, standing together. The short program YELLOW is composed of works created by artists from seven different nations: Êmîcêtôsêt: Many bloodlines by Theola Ross (Cree); Between Two Lines by Jack Steele (Wiradjuri); Te Wao Nui byNgariki Ngatae (Māori); Nuxalk Radio by Banchi Hanuse (Nuxalk); Audrey’s Story by Michelle Derosier (Anishinaabe); Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu (Kanaka Maoli); and The Fourfold by Alisi Telengut (Mongolian, Telengut). The fluidity of the works in YELLOW speaks to the artful nuance of Indigenous Cinema.
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nîpawistamâsowin Wins Audience Award at imagineNATIVE Film Festival
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up directed by Dr. Tasha Hubbard nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (Canada) directed by Dr. Tasha Hubbard (Cree) won the The Audience Choice Award – Feature Film, along with a $1,000 cash prize presented by Air Canada, at the 20th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which ran October 22 to 27, 2019 in Toronto.
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20th imagineNATIVE Film Festival Announces Award Winners
Violet Nelson in a scene from ARRAY Releasing Presents “THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN” Courtesy of Array Releasing / Photo Credit Katrin Bragadottir The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open won the award for Best Dramatic Feature on Sunday at the Awards Presentation of the 20th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. The Alanis Obomsawin Award for Best Documentary Work Long Format went to Mothers of the Land (Sembradoras de vida).
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2019 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Announces Lineup of Indigenous Films
The Sun Above Me Never Sets directed by Lyubov Borisova The 20th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival announced the full lineup of independent films and works by Indigenous screen-content creators for the Festival, running October 22 to 27, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario.