After a two-year COVID pause, The Montreal First Peoples Festival was back on the streets, stages, and in theatres from August 9-18, 2022. The Festival has long included Indigenous films as a main Festival presentation and has established a reputation for programming Indigenous focused films hailing fro...
Image credit: Painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images) MUSKRAT Magazine is honoured to help share the Missing Matoaka Project and unveil the real story of Pocahontas. We believe that Indigenous stories must be told through the lens and voices of Indigenous people who bring...
Despite the ongoing pandemic, Indigenous film had a strong outing. We started out with insightful documentaries during the Hot Docs International Film Festival that explored Black and Indigenous relations in One of Ours, and Anishinaabe journalist Tanya Tagala reflected on her truth-telling book Seven F...
Still from Reservation Dogs | Image credit: FX Network The highly acclaimed Reservation Dogs is being praised in the Indigenous community and beyond. A comedy television series showcases Indigenous youth lives on an Oklahoma reservation, the first series to be filmed entirely in the United States. Creat...
Film still from Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Image credit: tiff.net Each year the Toronto International Film Festival premieres talented Indigenous filmmakers in different stages of their careers. This year TIFF screens newcomers sharing semi-autobiographical stories about their loved ones, es...
Courtney Montour listening to filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin’s 1984 recordings of Mary. | Credit NFB Mary Two-Axe Earley is an iconic Indigenous woman warrior who took on the Canadian government to fight for the rights of Indigenous women. There was a time in Canadian history that if an Indigenous wom...
One of Ours centres around Josiah Wilson, a young Haitian teen who was adopted into a Heiltsuk family in BC. In 2016 he was racially profiled at the All Native Basketball Tournament and barred from playing. After mediating the case just before it going to the BC Human Rights Tribunal, Josiah got reinsta...
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, by filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, made its debut at Hot Docs Canadian Film Festival on April 29 and will stream online via the festival until May 9. It also streams across Canada through the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver until May 16. The fil...
In Spirit to Soar we see Anishinaabe author and journalist and podcaster, Tanya Talaga, return to Thunder Bay after an inquest into the deaths of the seven Indigenous children in her acclaimed book, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City. Her personal story of reconnect...
Carmen Moore as Susan in Rustic Oracle | Image source: Jeff Weddall For Indigenous audiences, and specifically anybody that has gone through something that my character has gone through, I hope that they feel heard. I hope they feel understood. I hope they feel supported and not dismissed. Sonia (the di...