It was a sold-out house that greeted the director of New Zealand’s top-grossing film of all time, Taika Waititi on imagineNATIVE’s Opening Night screening, on Thursday, Oct. 20. The Canadian premiere of ‘BOY’ was a much-anticipated movie from an artist who’s become a fan favorite after many return visits to the festival. MEDIA INDIGENA was there […]
File Under Miscellaneous 7 min | 2010 | Canada Written & Directed by Jeff Barnaby. Starring Glenn Gould Screening as part of imagineNATIVE’s “Moon Shine: Shorts Program,” Thur. OCT 21 @ 9:15 pm, Al Green Theatre (750 Spadina Ave.) MI Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— A nightmarish medical facility with shades of […]
FILMS REVIEWED: Windigo 11 min | 2009 | Canada Directed by Kris Happyjack-McKenzie Screens at imagineNATIVE Friday Oct. 22 @ 9 pm, Al Green Theatre (Bloor at Spadina) MI Rating: ★★★ (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— A Flesh Offering 95 min | 2010 | Canada Directed by Jeremy Torrie. Starring Kaniehtho Horn & Eric […]
As we busy ourselves preparing a longer piece about imagineNATIVE’s Opening Night Screening of BOY, we thought you might like this sneak preview of our post-screening chat with the film’s director Taika Waititi. We asked him why one of his main characters decided to name his 3-man gang ‘The Crazy Horses,’ plus, what we might […]
Things got off to a great start today with opening comments from imagineNATIVE staff and board members along with stirring performances by traditional dancers and drummers at the official Welcome Reception, held every year at Toronto’s Native Canadian Centre. In the “live on location” videos below, we catch up to two of the many, many […]
