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TORONTO - Indigenous writer Jesse Wente will challenge the notion of reconciliation in a new book described as "part memoir, part manifesto."
Sundance Labs: 20 Up-and-Coming Directors and Screenwriters Named for 2021 Fellowship Signature workshops include 12 fellows for directors and screenwriters labs and nine fellows cultivating Native artists Diane Haithman | May 10, 2021 @ 2:55 PM Sundance The Sundance Institute named on Monday the artists and projects for the first group of its upcoming summer labs. The group includes 12 fellows for the directors and screenwriters labs and nine artists participating in the Native and Indigenous lab which focuses on the development of storytellers from those backgrounds through feature film,...
iPolitics By Kady O'Malley. Published on Feb 21, 2021 4:00pm Then-U.S. vice president Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a meeting of first ministers in Ottawa in December 2016. (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics) U.S. President Joe Biden in December, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has secured his first face-to-face meeting with the new resident of the White House. But, unlike his instantly historic state visit to Washington at the invitation of then-president Barack Obama, he’ll be firing up his webcam this time, instead of the prime ministerial jet. “Both Trudeau’s ...
Indigenous-made films, new fellows, and the grand opening of the film festival all give a gracious nod to Indigenous inclusion at Sundance 2021
Filmmaker Michelle Latimer is photographed in Toronto, on Wednesday, August 19, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young December 22, 2020 - 1:34 PM The National Film Board is pulling Michelle Latimer's documentary "Inconvenient Indian" from distribution and its upcoming screening at the Sundance Film Festival. The decision comes after the accuracy of the filmmaker's Indigenous identity was called into question last week. In a statement Tuesday, the NFB said it held conversations with the Indigenous participants who appeared in the documentary, its Indigenous Advisory Group, and p...