The 2008 imagineNATIVE film and media arts festival has recently wrapped up in Toronto. It was interesting to see the cover image they chose for the festival program this year.
What immediately struck me was the cover of the program, which is a mock-up of the original Indiana Jones movie poster. The festival has replaced the image of Indiana Jones tipping his fedora with one of “Indian Jane”. The festival represents some good film media – intellectual property belonging to native authors, while at the same time, the cover image grew out of a western culture, and highly commercial product (the series of Indiana Jones films), and a character who makes his living as a relic hunter. The imagery this site evoked for me at first glance cried out as the perfect poster child for our ETEC 521 Module 3: Decolonization and Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights.