Actors, directors to gather in city during Indigenous Film Summit

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Many of Canada’s Indigenous film writers, directors and producers will converge on Winnipeg on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The second annual Indigenous Film Summit, to be held at Théâtre Cercle Molière (340 Provencher Blvd.), aims to encourage and inspire the next generation of storytellers for television and film.

The keynote speaker is Tantoo Cardinal, one of Canada’s most acclaimed actors, who has appeared in such films as Dances with Wolves, Black Robe, Wind River and most recently, The Grizzlies, which was filmed in Nunavut. She has also appeared in countless television shows including Mohawk Girls, Westworld and Outlander. In 2017, she won the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.

Among the topics the summit will delve into are the journey to producing and directing your first feature film, the future of Indigenous TV and cinema and meetings with representatives from Telus Storyhive, Telefilm Canada and the CBC, among others, featuring speakers such as Winnipeg-based producer and actor Tina Keeper and Anishinaabe director Darlene Naponse.

The summit also includes an exclusive screening at Cinematheque of the documentary Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, which tells the story of Colten Boushie, a Cree man who was slain on a Saskatchewan farm in 2016; the jury trial of Gerald Stanley, who was accused of Boushie’s murder; and Stanley’s subsequent acquittal. The film was produced, written and directed by Tasha Hubbard, who is from Peepeekisis First Nation in Saskatchewan and is an associate professor at the University of Alberta.