ImagineNATIVE
It seems strange to be making announcements for this year’s imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival which doesn’t start its run until October. However, passes go on sale today and some parts of the line up have already been confirmed, so really, it’s never too early to get excited about film programming! Running from October 19th to 23rd, this international festival celebrates the work of Indigenous peoples from around the globe....
It is not a secret that the trauma inflicted by the Residential School System, in which Native children were forcibly removed from their homes and families and put into schools designed to assist them in assimilating with “white culture” has been widespread and devastating. I don’t claim to know much about it, except that the Government felt that it was a good idea at the time, later recognizing the detrimental effects this had on First Nations peoples the country over, finally apologizing in 2008. Themes relating to the Residential School System have permeated First Nations art and culture for many...
What Men Don’t Know is a 25 minute documentary film that forms part of the imagineNATIVE festival’s Spotlight on Taiwan, screening Saturday October 23rd at 3pm. Director Xie Fui-mei focuses her lens on a coastal community of the Tao (also known as Yami) in Taiwan for an interesting and informative look at their culture and traditions....
The imagineNATIVE festival, now in its 11th year, runs from October 20 to 24th, 2010. It’s an annual arts festival celebrating the latest works by indigenous peoples in film, video, radio, and new media. Here at Toronto Film Scene, we’re naturally most interested in the films that are on offer, and since they’ve just announced the entire program line up, including the opening and closing night films, we thought we’d let you in on it....
