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, […]
This fall the Gemini Awards will honour the best in Canadian English-language television, and a handful of Aboriginal nominees are competing for some pretty significant hardware in the Program and Performance categories. Neil Diamond’s remarkable documentary Reel Injun is up for Best Social/Political Documentary Program. Don Kelly, host of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network‘s Fish […]
Even the director’s name hits the right note with this documentary about Hollywood stereotypes. Yep… Neil Diamond. I think I might have met this James Bay Cree director at the Moose Hotel in Val D’Or around closing time. But that’s another story for another time. This one is about how Hollywood first exploited stereotypes about […]
