- October 25, 2010 8:57 AM
- By Arts Online
Host Billy Merasty talks during last night's awards gala for the ImagineNATIVE film festival. (Samantha Anderson/CBC)
The 11th annual ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival wrapped up last night with a gala awards show. Host Billy Merasty, an actor and writer for Native Earth Performing Arts, was energetic and kept the crowd laughing.
- October 24, 2010 9:26 PM
- By Arts Online
Lani Brennan, the subject of the domestic abuse documentary Lani's Story, speaks to the audience as directors Cara Mumford and Genevieve Grieves look on. (Samantha Anderson/CBC)
After the North American premiere of the film
Lani's Story at ImagineNATIVE, audience members crowded around its subject, Lani Brennan, to tell her how moved they were.
- October 24, 2010 11:22 AM
- By Arts Online
Zacharias Kunuk, left, and Ian Mauro answer questions at the screening of Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change. (Samantha Anderson/CBC)
Last night, I went to see the documentary
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change last night, which was a sold -out event at the Al Green Theatre.
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change explains how the thawing permafrost, shrinking ice and warmer weather of the Arctic affect its people. It also reveals the realities of indigenous and scientific thought, and what can happen when the two intersect.
- October 22, 2010 11:56 PM
- By Arts Online
Minda Martin answers questions from the audience after the Canadian premiere of her film Free Land. (Samantha Anderson/CBC)
Minda Martin's experimental documentary
Free Land had its Canadian premiere this evening. It traces the lives of Martin's ancestors and their stories of displacement during the Cherokee relocation, as well as Martin's own realizations of the effect this had on her.
- October 22, 2010 10:37 AM
- By Arts Online
I attended the Media Mash-Up: Foundlings on Thursday night, curious to see what this unusual-sounding multimedia performance was about.
- October 21, 2010 8:56 PM
- By Arts Online
A scene from the Mexican documentary The Little Seed in the Asphalt. (ImagineNATIVE)
The Little Seed in the Asphalt, or
La Pequena Semilla en el Asfalto, had its world premiere today at the Al Green Theatre, as part of the second day of ImagineNATIVE.
- October 21, 2010 2:01 PM
- By Arts Online
A scene from the Taiwanese film A Kuroshio Love Story. (ImagineNATIVE)
There are a lot of events to choose from at ImagineNATIVE, so I've decided to narrow it down to a handful of must-see spectacles.
- October 21, 2010 11:40 AM
- By Arts Online
A scene from Taika Waititi's film Boy, which opened the 11th annual ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. (ImagineNATIVE)
Boy, the second feature-length film from New Zealand director Taika Waititi, was screened last night at the sold-out opening of the 11th annual ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. This was the movie's Canadian premiere, its world premiere having been at Sundance earlier this year.
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