Jordan River Anderson with his mother, Virginia Anderson | Image source: NFB Alanis Obomsawin’s 53rd documentary Jordan River Anderson – The Messenger will make its debut at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) on Sept 10, 2019. The film tells the decade long journey that took place in order...
Still from Wawatay | Image source: Montreal First Peoples Festival Into its 29th year, the Montreal First Peoples Festival runs for a week in August and is established as one of the first and largest festivals in North America celebrating Indigenous cinema, arts, and culture. The festival was originall...
Still from Even in the Silence | Image source: Montreal First Peoples Festival “Indigenous people are used as pawns in a way to tell stories that are exploitative. Regarding culture, and our identity; It’s important to have as many Indigenous filmmakers telling our own stories.” says Jonathan Elliott,...
Cara Gee as May in Fool For Love | photo by Dahlia Katz Ojibway actress, Cara Gee is on fire right now. She is currently starring in the classic Sam Shephard play Fool For Love, a story exploring a fierce love-hate relationship between a couple running at Soulpepper Theatre Company from July 13 to Augus...
Anishinaboy, Tim Fontaine | Twitter Since its inception in 2017, Walking Eagle News has taken the Indigenous community by storm. Publisher, Tim Fontaine left his career in serious journalism to pursue satirical news online, as host of APTN’s The Laughing Drum, and recently doing stand-up in the 2019 Tor...
Debbie Bapiste and Jade Tootoosis | Image Credit: Melissa Kent, CBC Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, opens the Hot Docs 2019 International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto on April 25. Nîpawistamâsowin is a powerful and heartbreaking exploration of the cost of the death of Colten Boushie by Dire...
Scene from The Grizzlies | Image source: Mongrel Media The Grizzlies is an inspiring, and piercing look, into the lives of youth in Kugluktuk, a Nunavut community with one of the highest teen suicide rates in the world. Even though we get introduced to Kugluktuk through the eyes of settler teacher Russ...
Host of Moosemeat and Marmalade, Art Napolean | Image source: Mooswa Films The popular docuseries Moosemeat and Marmalade has returned to APTN in 2019 for another exciting season whereby co-hosts Art Napoleon and Dan Hayes explore the rise of the new Indigenous food scene. This year the duo also get exp...
Scene from Transformers: The Movie In 1986 I was seven years old and Transformers was my favorite show on television. My family lived in St. Catherines, Ontario and we got FOX 29, a station from down in the USA, I think Rochester NY. It had all sorts of great Saturday morning cartoons with new episodes...
Crystal Johnson aka Crystal Love in Black Divaz | Image source: imaginenative.org Black Divaz dives into almost nearly uncharted territory, giving audiences a glimpse of what it’s like to be a drag queen in Indigenous Australia. Directed by Adrian Russell Wills, the film follows six contestants in their...