Travelling to iN 2010?
Take advantage of hotel discounts when travelling to imagineNATIVE 2010, at the Holiday Inn Midtown and Super8 Downtown Toronto. more...
Call for Doc/Drama Pitch
This is your chance to be part of an intensive pitch training opportunity at this year’s imagineNATIVE! Do you have a great idea for a pilot episode of a series drama (30 or 60 min), OR a feature or short documentary? more...
Sponsor an Artist
The 11th Anniversary imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is fast approaching and we have an exciting opportunity for you to support the Indigenous artists. Several of you have asked us how you can contribute to imagineNATIVE and we are responding with a targeted strategy that will see your contributions go directly to the artists! more...
Joel George's "Memories" at Toronto Youth Shorts FF
On Friday, July 16, the festival will showcase a series of powerful and heartwarming narratives that explore physical and emotional change. The screening will feature Memories by Joel George, a short film that was screened in the 2009 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. more...
Save the Date
Save the Date imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival October 20 – 24, 2010 Five days of Indigenous film, video, radio, new media, art, entertainment, and so much more. more...
New Executive Director and Board Appointments
TORONTO, July 14, 2010 – The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Ryle as Executive Director effective immediately. In this role he will be more...
ebulletin, July 9
imagineNATIVE News Advertise in the 2010 iN Catalogue Call for Submissions Toronto Urban Film Festival 32nd Rhubard Festival, Toronto Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Montana Pacific more...
Jackpot on Global TV
imagineNATIVE is proud to announce that the award-winning documentary JACKPOT, produced by Michelle Latimer, will have its Canadian Broadcast Premiere as part of Global’s Currents on Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 at 10pm EST. more...
FREE Movie Nights
Celebrate the first annual National Aboriginal History Month with imagineNATIVE at two FREE Movie Nights. At the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto (16 Spadina Road) on June 18 and 23 at 7pm. more...
Merata Mita, (1942 - May 31, 2010)
It is with great sadness that imagineNATIVE acknowledges the passing of renowned Māori filmmaker and festival patron Merata Mita, of Ngati Pikiao and Ngai Te Rangi. more...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2010. We are currently seeking film/video/media art/new media and radio works in all genres by international and Canadian Indigenous filmmakers, producers and writers. We invite all... more...
ebulletin, May 27
imagineNATIVE News Call for Submissions Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival copresents with imagineNATIVE Call for Submissions imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts more...
Two Spirits
imagineNATIVE co-presents with Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival Saturday May 29 • 1:00PM • Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queens Park) more...
ebulletin, April 16
imagineNATIVE News imagineNATIVE Copresents wth Sprockets, Toronto International Film Festival for Children Call for Submissions - Film and Video Call for Submissions Brantford Film Festival, more...
LIFT/iN Mentorship Announced
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) are pleased to announce that established dancer, choreographer and actor, Michael Greyeyes more...
Ebulletin, April 1
imagineNATIVE News Call for Submissions - Film and Video Presentation with Images Festival, Toronto Programmer (7 month contract) Presentation with Hot Docs Canadian International more...
Job Opportunity: Programmer
The duties and responsibilties of the Programmer include but are not limited to: working in conjunction with Executive Director and programming team; programming administration. Thorough knowledge of more...
ebulletin, March 19
Call for Submissions Chicago International Film Festival Call for Entry, Docs for Sale Online, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFFA) Call for Applications Call for Curating more...
Reel Injun Hits Theatres!
Reel Injun runs until Thursday, March 4! Last chance! "Funny and shocking" Brian D. Johnson, Macleans "Smart, funny, insightful and hugely entertaining." Todd Brown, Twitchfilm.net more...
imagineNATIVE Tours Northern Ontario
imagineNATIVE will tour February 3 – March 9 showcasing the youth short-works program and the opening night feature film selections from the 2009 Festival. more...
Embargo Collective goes to Berlin 2010
The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is pleased to announce the official selection of the festival’s Embargo Collective programme for the Forum Expanded section of the Berlin International more...
LIFT Mentorship Program
Do you have a great idea for a 5-minute short film? Explore 16mm filmmaking through LIFT’s workshops, equipment and facilities. Shoot and edit your ideas to film, and see them on screen at the 11th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which will take place in Toronto from October 20-24, 2010! more...
New Executive Director
The imagineNATIVE Board of Directors and staff are pleased to welcome Steven Loft as the new Executive Director, who will be joining the festival team in the new year. more...
ebulletin, December 11, 2009
imagineNATIVE & LIFT 6th Annual Mentorhship Program: Call for Applicants Director Helen Haig-Brown's film, The Cave (?E?anx), Canada's Top Ten more...
Call for Doc or Drama Pitches!
Do you have a great idea for a short, long or series drama, OR a short or feature documentary? Enter our competition to pitch your idea to a panel of commissioning editors and acquisitions executives more...
ebulletin, September 4
Film Snacks Competition, Discovery Channel and Planet in Focus Sweet 16: A 16MM Celebration, Cinevic Anti-Hero Trinity Square Video Themed Commission Program, TSV Images Festival more...
Support Artists to Attend imagineNATIVE!
The 10th Anniversary imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is fast approaching and we have an exciting opportunity for you to support the
Indigenous artists creating the vibrant and innovative works that will be screened more...
ebulletin, August 7
National Screen Institute (NSI) Online Film Storyville Vancouver Southern Alberta Art Gallery 2009 Crystal Awards, Women in Film and Television - Toronto (WIFT-T) Open Call: Caustic Assets videos, more...
ebulletin, July 27
Call for Submissions International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Camden International Film Festival Night at the Indies Festival Images Festival Call for Applications Filmmaker consultation with an industry expert more...
ebulletin, July 3
imagineNATIVE News Book Ad Space NOW Call for Submissions The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Montana The 6th Annual ION International Film Festival NSI Online short film Festival Call for more...
ebulletin, June 19
imagineNATIVE News Book Ad Space NOW Call for Submissions Chicago International Film Festival CSIF Outdoors Screening Project Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival Big Easy Shorts Festival & Big Easy more...
ebulletin, May 8
May 8, 2009 In This Issue (click headings below to navigate)imagineNATIVE News imagineNATIVE Call for Submissions Film + Video imagineNATIVE Call for Submissions New Media imagineNATIVE + Hot more...
ebulletin, April 24
imagineNATIVE Call for Submissions Film + Video imagineNATIVE Call for Submissions New Media imagineNATIVE + Hot Docs Co-present National Screen Institute Monument Valley Film Festival, more...
iN co-presents Alanis Obomsawin Retrospective at Hot Docs
Hot Docs will screen a retrospective celebrating the distinguished career of Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin. One of Canada’s most uncompromising documentary filmmakers more...
ebulletin, April 9
imagineNATIVE News imagineNATIVE Call for Submissions Film + Video imagineNATIVE Call for Submissions New Media imagineNATIVE + IMAGES Co-present Call for Submissions InterAccess Media more...
LIFT 2009 Mentorship Recipient Announced
imagineNATIVE and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto are pleased to announce Amanda Strong as the recipient of this year’s imagineNATIVE/LIFT Mentorship. more...
ebulletin, March 27
imagineNATIVE call for submissions imagineNATIVE + IMAGES co-present, Toronto Call for Submissions
InterAccess, Toronto Edmonton International Film Festival Monument Valley FIlm Festival, Kayenta AZ more...
imagineNATIVE returns from tour
imagineNATIVE returns from screenings in Northern Ontario experiences of the tour adventurers... John Hupfield, Artist and Tour Coordinator (February 15 - 22) Northern Ontario. What an experience. Faces more...
e-bulletin, March 12
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto InterAccess, Toronto Film Festival, Manitoba Edmonton International Film Festival Monument Valley FIlm Festival, Kayenta AZ Canadian more...
Tkaronto at Toronto City Hall
SHANE BELCOURT'S TKARONTO SCREENS THIS FRIDAY IN CELEBRATION OF TORONTO'S 175TH ANNIVERSARY MARCH 6, 4PM CITY HALL, 100 QUEEN STREET WEST, COMMITTEE ROOM 1 more...
Call for Proposals
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival & Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Make a short film for imagineNATIVE '09! Deadline: Monday March 9th, 2009 more...
UPDATE: imagineNATIVE Tours Northern Ontario
imagineNATIVE will be on tour February 15 – 21 and March 9 – 16 to showcase work made for/by youth and the closing night selection from the 2008 Festival. more...
e-bulletin, January 29
In This Issue (click headings below to navigate)
imagineNATVE Culture Shock Program going to Berlin 19th Montreal First Peoples Festival, Montreal
Native Radio Theatre, Los Angeles All Roads Film more...
Record Number of Canadian films off to Berlin
GAYLE MACDONALD, From Tuesday's Globe and Mail, February 3, 2009 at 3:14 AM EST, A record-breaking 15 Canadian feature films have been selected for the 59th Berlin more...
e-bulletin, January 9
imagineNATVE Culture Shock Program going to Berlin, 19th Montreal First Peoples Festival, Montreal, Native Radio Theatre, Los Angeles, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, National Screen Institute Film Festival more...
Culture Shock programmed at Berlin
imagineNATIVE is pleased to announce the official selection of the festival’s Culture Shock program for the Forum Expanded section of the Berlin International Film Festival. more...
e-bulletin, December 2
The Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax Cowichan International Aboriginal Film Festival, Duncan Dreamspeakers, Edmonton National Geographic, All Roads Seed Grant WIFT-T Media Leadership more...
imagineNATIVE Pitch Winner, Blood Quantum, Goes to TIFF
BLOOD QUANTUM by Jeff Barnaby
The dead are reanimating outside the isolated Mi’gMaq reserve of Red Crow, forcing its immune Indian inhabitants to defend their reserve from hordes of invading white corpses. more...
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The NFB Mediatheque & imagineNATIVE co-present<br/>
The award-winning documentary<b>
CLUB NATIVE</b><br/><br/>
“The Best of Hot Docs 2008!” - Rabble.ca<br/>
Most Innovative Canadian Film - DOXA Film Festival 2008<br/>
Four “NNNN” rating – NOW magazine <br/> more...
Call for Submissions - Radio and New Media
We are currently seeking new media (web-based art) and radio works by international and Indigenous new media artists/website designers and radio producers. We invite all genres and lengths and encourage submissions from first-time and emerging artists and producers.<br/><br/>Download the <a href="http://www.imagineNATIVE.org/upload/2008 new media sub form.pdf">NEW MEDIA</a> or <a href="http://www.imaginenative.org/upload/2008radiosubform.pdf"> RADIO</a> submission form and submit by July 1, 2008. more...
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imagineNATIVE News Bit<br/>
imagineNATIVE is producing its 2008 Trailer and needs an experienced crew June 23 – 25, evenings. We are seeking an Art Director, Grip/Electrical, Gaffer, Boom/Sound and a Stunt Coordinator.
The Trailer will be broadcast on prime time television and during the 2008 festival.
For more information or to join the team, please email Sage Paul at spaul@imagineNATIVe.org
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imagineNATIVE e-bulletin, June 9
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imagineNATIVE News Bit<br/>
imagineNATIVE is producing its 2008 Trailer and needs an experienced crew June 23 – 25, evenings. We are seeking an Art Director, Grip/Electrical, Gaffer, Boom/Sound and a Stunt Coordinator.
The Trailer will be broadcast on prime time television and during the 2008 festival.
For more information or to join the team, please email Sage Paul at spaul@imagineNATIVe.org
more...
e-bulletin, June 13
The NFB Mediatheque & imagineNATIVE co-present<br/>
The award-winning documentary<b>
CLUB NATIVE</b><br/><br/>
“The Best of Hot Docs 2008!” - Rabble.ca<br/>
Most Innovative Canadian Film - DOXA Film Festival 2008<br/>
Four “NNNN” rating – NOW magazine <br/> more...
imagineNATIVE e-bulletin
ImagineNATIVE is currently seeking feature length films (drama and documentary) for the upcoming annual film festival. Please spread the word and keep your ears open for any films produced by Indigenous filmmakers (writers, producers, and directors) that have made a feature length film in the past two years. more...
imagineNATIVE Ends Another Successful Year
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival came to a close last night, handing out Awards and celebrating another record-breaking year. more...
Urban Rez
This episode is a special look at the fastest growing indigenous film and media arts festival in the world. ImagineNATIVE is in its ninth year and Métis media artist Danis Goulet more...
e-bulletin, Nov 14
North by Northeast, Toronto, Edmonton International Film Festival, WIFT - Toronto Executive Management Program, WIFT - Toronto Media Leadership Program, OAC, Ojibway Cultural Centre and the Woodland Cultural Centre Exhibition Assistance Program more...
imagineNATIVE in Australia
View Black Tracks Canada as they captured the vitality and cultural diversity of the world’s Indigenous nations direct from the streets of Toronto at imagineNATIVE 2008. more...
e-bulletin, Nov 4
View Points Panel Discussion moderated by Kerry Swanson. Co-presentation with Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival. FREE Co-presentation with Regent Park Film Festival. Call for Submissions. Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. Tribeca All Access. Americas Film Festival more...
FREE Co-Presentation with Regent Park Film Festival
Saturday, November 8, 6:00pm Nelson Mandela Public School, 440 Shuter Street FREE and open to the public!! The program Hush...She’s Coming includes the imagineNATIVE favourites Hush by Dena Curtis and Destiny in Alice by Sonja Dare. more...
Co-Presentation with Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival
Saturday, November 8, 1:00pm
Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
$10 or pay-what-you-can more...
View Points at Planet IndigenUs
View Points panel discussion More Than Bows and Arrows coming up November 12, 2008 at Harbourfront Centre, moderated by imagineNATIVE’s Kerry Swanson more...
Co-Presentation with Toronto Palestine Film Festival
Tomorrow Night, Wednesday, October 29, 9:30pm at the Revenue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue. more...
Telefilm Canada and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
Telefilm Canada and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network announce successful projects selected for the Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program. more...
WIN to see Xavante Strategy
"...My father came back with a very serious face and told me that I was going to have to live in another place, with the Warazu (white man)...." more...
A Creative Dynamic New Website
imagineNATIVE takes its blazingly creative dynamic online with a brand new website - a key initiative of the ninth annual ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. more...
Volunteer at imagineNATIVE!
As a non-profit charitable organization, we depend on the support of volunteers. As well as being a lot of fun, volunteering can provide a way to gain valuable experience and meet key players in the entertainment industry more...
imagineNATIVE e-bulletin
(August 15, 2008) imagineNATIVE is moving on August 25, 2008 to: 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 349 All other contact information will remain the same, however may be temporarily more...
Métis filmmaker Shane Belcourt Makes Feature film debut with Tkaronto
“Smart and sexy and arresting, and the performances (especially from Melanie McLaren as Jolene) are terrific…This is a worthwhile indie feature attracting a lot of deserved buzz, so catch it while you can.” - Liz Braun, Ottawa Sun
“One of the year’s most appealing local indie features.” - Jason Anderson, Eye Weekly
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July 27, 2008
ImagineNATIVE is currently seeking submissions for a Documentary & Drama Pitch: Exclusive Professional Training & Pitch Sessions. Do you have a great idea for a short (23 min or less) documentary or short drama more...
e-bulletin, July 11
ImagineNATIVE is currently seeking feature length films (drama and documentary) for the upcoming annual film festival. Please spread the word and keep your ears open for any films produced by Indigenous filmmakers (writers, producers, and directors) that have made a feature length film in the past two years.
more...