Lani’s Story 51 min. | 2009 | Australia Directed by Genevieve Grieves Screening at imagineNATIVE Sunday Oct 24 @ 1pm, Al Green Theatre (Bloor at Spadina) MI Rating: ★★★ (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— An at-times harrowing documentary about one Aboriginal woman’s journey to physical, mental and emotional recovery after a vicious attack at […]
More video now from the invitation-only artists gathering held on Day 3 (Oct. 22) of imagineNATIVE 2010, where we spoke with a Sami artist who made the trip to Toronto all the way from Sweden. Per-Josef Idivuoma, Manager/Director of idi Studios, interviewed just outside L’Espresso Bar Mercurio, site of the reception
This afternoon on the festival’s third day, many of the 70+ artists in attendance at imagineNATIVE 2010 accepted an invitation to a private soirée sponsored by the Canada Media Fund at the lovely L’Espresso Bar Mercurio on Bloor St. W. MEDIA INDIGENA was there, with these behind the scenes conversations: Neil Diamond, director of REEL INJUN, […]
El Grito de la Selva (Cry of the Forest) 97 min. | 2008 | Bolivia Directed by Nicolas Ipamo & Alejandro Noza Screening at imagineNATIVE Friday Oct 22 @ 1pm, Al Green Theatre (Bloor at Spadina) Spanish with English subtitles MI Rating: ★★½ (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— Touted as Bolivia’s first Indigenous feature […]
Gievn that this is Greenland’s first-ever feature-length film, the fact it’s also Inuit-produced makes it that much more historic. Tonight at the Al Green Theatre, the principal film screening venue for imagineNATIVE, moviegoers were treated to the “breathtaking and luminous” work Nuummioq. Directed by Otto Rosing and Torben Bech, the film was produced by Mikisoq H. Lynge, […]
