National Aboriginal Day
Guest host Jane Hawtin spoke with our pop culture critic Jesse Wente. He is the Head of Film Programmes at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and curated the series "First Peoples' Cinema, 15-Hundred Nations, One Tradition", it opens on Thursday night.
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Categories: Columnists, Past Episodes, Pop Culture
About Jesse Wente
Jesse Wente has been the weekly film critic for CBC Radio in Toronto for nearly a decade. He also appears on Q, CBC Radio's national arts and culture show and is seen regularly on TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies.
Jesse is a programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival as well as the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. He is also president of Native Earth Performing Arts, Canada's oldest Aboriginal theatre company.
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