Finding Our Talk 3 Wins at the International Cherokee Film Festival
Episode 6: Chitimacha, directed by Michelle Smith, and Episode 9: Hawaii, directed by Tracey Deer, both won the Language Preservation Award at the International Cherokee Film Festival held in October.
Finding Our Talk 3 Nominated at the American Indian Film Festival
Episode 4: Ktunaxa, directed by Michelle Smith, has been nominated for Best Public Service at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco. The American Indian Motion Picture Awards Show will be presented November 14, 2009.
Finding Our Talk III Episodes 1 & 2 screening at First Peoples' Festival
Episode 1: Anishnabe & Episode 2: Mi'gmaq
Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 7 p.m.
CCSB (Centre Simon Bolivar)
394 de Maisonneuve w.
Information: First Peoples' Festival
Last weekend to see Natasha Coulombe's exhibition
Finding our Talk 3 trainee, Natasha Coulombe, is exhibiting her photography at Jardin d'Art. The exhibit closes this weekend. Click on the image for more information.
Where: Jardin d'Art (175 Mont-Royal est, metro Mont-Royal)
Friday, May 8: 9 am to 7 pm
Saturday, May 9: 9 am to 5 pm
Entrance is free!
Aboriginal Architecture screening in Vancouver this week
Aboriginal Architecture - Living Architecture, a documentary that explores the way Aboriginal architecture reflects the diversity of environments and Aboriginal cultures across North America, is screening this week at the Architecture Institute of British Columbia's annual conference in Vancouver. The film will be presented on Friday, May 8 at 1:30 p.m., followed by a discussion with director Paul Rickard and architect Patrick Stewart on architecture as a catalyst that helps to re-enliven traditional ecological and cultural knowledge. For more information about the conference, visit AIBC.
Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back wins Best Film
Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back won Best Film at the Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards over the weekend. The documentary, directed by Reaghan Tarbell, tells the story of the women behind the legendary Mohawk steelworkers of Kahnawake. The film also won Best Feature Documentary at the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival in November 2008.