(brief) Recap: 2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
imagineNATIVE was always my favourite Toronto festival and I went every year from its inception up until I left the city for the Prairies in 2006. As a young aspiring journalist/visual storyteller, the films I saw and the people I met inspired me to try to carve my own path in the field. That path...
MI “Live on Location” Oct 20-24 @ imagineNATIVE 2010
Well, if it wasn’t already obvious by the massive banner atop our website, MEDIA INDIGENA is pleased to officially announce its Media Sponsorship of the 2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, taking place this Wed. Oct. 20 through Sun. Oct 24 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As one of many proud sponsors of this world-class...
AUDIO: Discussing Aboriginal film and fund-raising on STREETZ-FM
In this installment of our weekly Tuesday sitdown on STREETZ 104.7 FM, Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V discuss two exciting bits of news about Aboriginal people working on both sides of the camera: one has to do with a Hollywood blockbuster expected out in July 2011; the other, an experimental short showing...
The Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco
Behold… Same film, different trailer, much funnier… I’d seen the trailers online for a while now and always wondered what it was about. It turns out that the short film (which sadly I cannot find online in its entirety) is the product of Creative Spirit, a Native American film project based in California. Based on...
I want to see this…
And so do you! Taika Waititi, the Maori genius behind Eagle vs. Shark, has a new film on the festival circuit, which is simply entitled Boy. By the looks of this trailer, it’s going to be freakin’ hilarious.
Everybody Getting Rich Off ‘Twilight’ But Tribe
The second ‘Twilight’ film, New Moon, has made millions upon millions of dollars for Hollywood. Author Stephenie Meyer hasn’t made out so badly either. But, as a Feb. 7 New York Times Op-Ed piece points out, there is one group that hasn’t raked in the New Moon moola: the Quileute Nation of the Pacific Northwest....
Cowboys and Indians in Space? Assessing Avatar
While I must be one of the only people in the world yet to see James Cameron’s sci-fi blockbuster Avatar, I have noted with interest the continuous volley of criticism and praise for the film, especially among indigenous people. (For those who’ve been living under an unobtainium rock, Avatar is the story of a cultural...
