“Screen Memories” by Faye D. Ginsburg (2002) has led me to explore the Indigenous film, media, and television world a little deeper.
imagineNATIVE is the world’s largest presenter of Indigenous screen content.
“The organisation is recognised locally, nationally, and internationally for excellence and innovation in programming and as the global centre for Indigenous media arts. imagineNATIVE (legal entity: The Centre for Aboriginal Media) is a registered charity committed to creating a greater understanding of Indigenous peoples and cultures through the presentation of contemporary Indigenous-made media art including film, video, audio and digital media.” (imagineNATIVE, n.d.).
imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival launched in 2000 and presents in Toronto every October. They also present the annual imagineNATIVE Film & VR Tour across Canada with a focus on remote communities. This website has past archives of previous festival films and media, as well as an INdigital space for digital and interactive creations. You can find dramatic features, documentaries, feature-length and short format films, podcasts, audio works, VR, and interactive games all created by Indigenous artists.
One example of a film you can find on imagineNATIVE is this stop motion picture BIIDAABAN (The Dawn Comes). A beautifully compelling story about maple syrup and shapeshifters.
BIIDAABAN (THE DAWN COMES)
References
Ginsburg, Faye D., “Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media in Media Worlds: Anthropology on a New Terrain, eds. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 39-57.
imagineNATIVE. (n.d.). Original. Indigenous. https://imaginenative.org/about
Strong, A. (Director). (2018). Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes). [Film]. CBC Gem. https://imaginenative.org/imaginenative-playlist/2020/4/6/atanarjuat-the-fast-runner-2j7rb-aw7xs