Funny how being on the receiving end of a massive land grab can alter one’s perspective on what rules should apply to outsiders scooping up your territory and/or the resources beneath it. Recent months have seen much discussion in favour of ‘privatizing’ First Nations lands. Communal or collective ownership, we are told, has been a […]
With vocal chords still raw from a wild week of covering imagineNATIVE 2010, MI’s Rick Harp spoke to THE WORD’s Lady V about the winners at the festival’s closing night awards. MI on STREETZ, Oct. 26, 2010: [audio:https://mediaindigena.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Mediaindigena-TheWord-Oct-26-10.mp3|titles=Mediaindigena-TheWord-Oct-26-10] Catch MI on THE WORD live on-air/on-line at STREETZ 104.7 FM every Tuesday at 12 noon central […]
On the 4th night at imagineNATIVE 2010, Rick Harp caught up with Cree director Kent Monkman. His film, ‘Dance to Miss Chief’ was screening as part of the festival’s ‘Dancing Queenz’ program.
imagineNATIVE was always my favourite Toronto festival and I went every year from its inception up until I left the city for the Prairies in 2006. As a young aspiring journalist/visual storyteller, the films I saw and the people I met inspired me to try to carve my own path in the field. That path […]
On the fifth and final night of imagineNATIVE 2010, a very hoarse Rick Harp caught up with the joint winners of the Drama Pitch Prize, Marcel Balfour and Darryl Nepinak. Their winning pitch was up against three other candidates. The prize — which includes a $5000 development deal with APTN and $2500 worth of equipment/services […]
