MONTREAL – The National Film Board of Canada is offering over 200 films by Indigenous creators for free streaming through a new collection known as Indigenous Cinema (#NFBIndigenous).
Developed as part of the NFB’s three-year Indigenous Action Plan, Indigenous Cinema makes it easier than ever to find Indigenous stories and perspectives – searchable by subject, director’s name or Indigenous people or nation – along with curated and contextualized playlists for different age levels, plus filmmaker biographies.
The titles include both feature-length films and shorts from 1968 through 2017, and the films are sharable in a web story or on social media through share buttons located beneath their synopsis.
Highlights include Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell’s groundbreaking You Are on Indian Land; several titles from the legendary Alanis Obomsawin, including her landmark Kanehsetake: 270 Years of Resistance; Gil Cardinal’s powerful autobiographical Foster Child; Tasha Hubbard’s Canada Award-winning Two Worlds Colliding; Elisapie Isaac’s acclaimed If the Weather Permits; plus recent award winners like Bonnie Ammaaq’s Nowhere Land, and this river, by Katherena Vermette and Erica MacPherson, both named Best Short Doc at imagineNATIVE.
New and recently added titles include Diane Obomsawin’s multi-award-winning animated short I Like Girls; Mosha Michael’s classic short Natsik Hunting, the first Canadian film by an Inuk filmmaker; as well as Dana Claxton’s Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks, profiling the provocative work and life of Coast Salish and Okanagan artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.
The design of the website is based on original artwork by Eruoma Awashish, a graphic artist of Atikamekw and Québécois heritage, who also created the image above.
