imagineNATIVE Co-presentation
If you transform the landscape, you transform the people. Massive hydroelectric projects have redefined James Bay since the 1970s, creating cultural changes and political battles for the local Cree whose lives have always been connected to the rivers.
May 2, 2013 at 6:30PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 (350 King St. West)
May 4, 2013 at 3PM, TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
April 13, 6PM
Famous Players Canada Square, 2190 Yonge St
Cinema 4
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As the Japanese bomb Australia’s north, 95 Aboriginal children and their missionaries make a remarkable journey to safety across the continent. Over 44 days they travel 5,000 miles by foot, boat, canoe, truck and train. This compelling documentary film is their story, in their own words, a truly heroic and untold journey.
ShortsHD – the short film channel is giving voice to indigenous film artists and cultures from every first nation in the world on our ShortsHD television broadcast channels in the USA and Europe!
ShortsHD is accepting immediate submissions for a special TV event to spotlight the very best of short filmmaking created by Indigenous filmmakers.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 15, 2012
Criteria is as follows:
• Short films in all genres: 5 – 30 minutes in length
• HD delivery is preferable
• Master delivery is cost effective and easy
• ELECTRONIC FILES: delivery via external hard drive, USB Key or data transfer orHDCam or HDCam SR
• Non-exclusive TV broadcast license, 3 years
• $18 per minute for USA and/or €20 per minute for EMEA
How to submit for Consideration:
Fill out a submission form here: http://www.shorts.tv/shorts_film_submission_form.pdf
DIGITAL DELIVERY:
Submit online with a completed submission form and password protected VIMEO link of your film to
ACQUS@shorts.tv AND linda@shortsinternational.com
SUBJECT HEADLINE must read: ShortsHD First Nation spotlight
OR
HARDCOPY:
Send a DVD screener with a completed submission form to:
Attn: Linda O. Olszewski / ShortsHD First Nation spotlight
1522B Cloverfield Blvd.
Santa Monica CA 90404
USA
Phone: (310) 829-6815
For more information about ShortsHD visit http://www.shortshd.com/
Saturday! Oh man, did I ever agonize over Saturday—so many amazing movies to see, and all happening at the same time! Friday night I carefully went over my program again and again, weighing my choices, trying to pick and choose films that I thought might give me the broadest range of experience. In the end I gave up and went to bed, figuring I would make a gut decision when I got to the theatre. Turns out, I didn’t need to! The choice was taken out of my hands when I got to the TIFF Bell Lightbox and found out that both Water Journey AND Young Lakota were sold out!!!
Alanis Obomsawin
Hey everyone! Back again with more highlights, and do I ever have a lot of them today! Friday at the festival was JAM PACKED!
Jesse Gouchey, photo by Sean Dennie
Like It Was Yesterday was a phrase we heard more than once when families talked about how they feel about losing a loved one without justice or answers. “Even though she’s been gone 10 years, it feels like it was yesterday.”
And so it begins!!
Hey everyone!! I’m new to this blog, and new to Toronto, and new to the imagineNATIVE film festival, and could not be more excited to be helping out! For the past month or so, I’ve been helping Sage out as an intern with various social media tasks, but during the festival I shall be sharing my thoughts and experiences as an imagineNATIVE first-timer…starting with the opening night festivities!
We left the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema quiet, tempering a wave of emotion. The Opening Gala Screening of The People of the Kattawapiskak River has rendered me speechless, brimming with sadness, anger, fear and lastly: hope.
This latest documentary by the brilliant filmaker Alanis Obomsawin is not something I can delve deeply into right now, not at the after party where Bear Witness of a Tribe Called Red lays down the evenings sonic foundation.
This is not the place. There is community here, celebrating in this evenings launch of the festival. The power of our voices and stories being heard. Legendary artists, activists, leaders and visionary story-tellers.
I am no film buff. I am a mother, a woman – who has this burgeoning passion for film. With an even greater passion to hear our stories, to share them with my children. It inspires a hope for justice in me, for our people. I’m going to come back to this in a day or two, with a clear mind and refreshed heart. This is a film that every Canadian should see. I want to tell you why.
For now, I’ll close pictorial style, for all of you at home who couldn’t join us tonight… Continue reading
Hungry for imagineNATIVE films? In this third instalment of Programming-Team-picks, I invite you to a sampling of the smorgasbord of 2012 imagineNATIVE programming that I have personally taste-tested for you. Like food free-for-alls, I have trouble controlling myself, so please stuff your plate with these scrumptious treats!
Fighting Chance
It has been my absolute pleasure to work as the Volunteer Manager at imagineNATIVE for the past seven years and to meet so many passionate and dedicated volunteers.
