Opening Night Gala

Winner of the Berlin Film Festival’s Grand Prix for Best Feature Film, Taika Waititi’s BOY, and short film Taku Rakau E opened this year’s imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival on October 20, 2010 at the Bloor Cinema.

The director's of the opening night films, Taika Waititi and Kararaina Rangihau, along with artists and fans from Toronto, Canada, and around the world gathered for imagineNATIVE's Opening Night Gala and later celebrated at the Century Room.


The Bloor Cinema


Lining up to see Boy and Taku Rakau E


Taika Waititi


Marcia Nickerson (Chair, Board of Directors, imagineNATIVE)


Jason Ryle (Executive Director, imagineNATIVE)


Kerry Potts (Director of Development, imagineNATIVE)


Charlotte Engel (Board Member, imagineNATIVE and Creative Producer, Bravo!)


Kararaina Rangihau (Director, Taku Rakau E)


Danis Goulet (Programmer, imagineNATIVE), Taika Waititi (Director, Boy) and Kararaina Rangihau (Director, Taku Rakau E)


Opening Night After Party


imagineNATIVE Patrons Kim Tomczak (Vtape), Frank Meawasige and his wife, and Lisa Steele (Vtape)


L-R, Sage Paul (Events and Communications Manager, imagineNATIVE), Charlotte Engel (Board Member, imagineNATIVE), Michelle Latimer (Programmer, imagineNATIVE), Lowell Schrider (William F. White), Kerry Potts (Director of Development, imagineNATIVE), Kevin Burton (filmmaker), Caroline Monnet (filmmaker)


Opening Night After Party