Deadline to submit: Monday, July 14, 2008

The 7th Annual Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF) invites you to submit your work to one of North America’s longest-running indigenous film and video festivals, happening this November 20-23, 2008.

Call For Submissions!!!!!!

Submissions are now being accepted in 7 categories. WAFF pays screening fees to artists and there is no submission fee for entries received on or before the mid-July deadline.

For complete rules and entry forms, go to www.aboriginalfilmfest.org or email info@aboriginalfilmfest.org.

Image: cyberTRIBE

the other APT has been selected for inclusion in the 2008 Biennale of Sydney’s Online Venue. As part of the forthcoming Biennale, Revolutions – Forms That Turn, Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has selected digital artworks and texts to be featured in its Online Venue. The exhibition as a whole and the Online Venue particularly, focuses on the different ways artists have ‘revolutionised’ contemporary art. It explores the impulse to revolt, rotating, turning upside down, shifting points of view, revolving, mirroring and reversing as formal devices, as well as chart their broader aesthetic, psychological, psychoanalytical, radical and political perspectives.

Held over the 2006/2007 summer in Brisbane the other APT was a multi-artform exhibition that coincided with and questioned the Queensland Art Gallerys 5th Asia Pacific Triennial, with a similar focus – of art within the Asia-Pacific region, but with local artists included. Presented by cyberTribe which has a history of almost a decade in Online Curating, the exhibition website allowed audiences for the other APT to be far reaching internationally, along with the celebration and exhibition program held at Raw Space Galleries in Brisbane. Curator Jenny Fraser says of the exhibition “The primary curatorial premise of the other APT was to show artworks from Indigenous Australian Artists, and also show meaningful works from other Artists that may constitute them as a friend in culture and good visitor to this country, in meaningful dialogue and otherwise. In other words, Aboriginals actively engaging with each other, and those from other cultural backgrounds - Torres Strait Islander, Melanesian, Maori, Samoan, Japanese, Filipino and others from outside the Asia-Pacific Rim, providing a true survey, commenting on individual and shared experience. Naturally some of these works are collaborations - existing works, and also works produced especially for the other APT, but all really important discourse, culturally and historically. It is important that it has been acknowledged by the Curator of the Biennale of Sydney.”

The Online Venue will provide a wider context to the physical 2008 Biennale of Sydney, as well as constitute a space of its own. The Online Venue is the first of its kind in the world and thus a revolutionary form of presentation for the Biennale. With an emphasis on exploration and discovery, the non-linear navigation allows the user to explore and view artworks in an intuitive way. The Biennales website presents a selection of artist projects in a dynamic constellation. Works are linked together by curatorial themes. Each visit to the site presents a new set of linked works to view, keeping the site fresh and brimming with new juxtapositions. the other APT , has also been invited to tour to the Tjibaou Cultural Centre in Noumea, New Caledonia later this year.

“Dances with Wolves Sequel Goes Into Production”

That’s right kids! More movie-making magic coming your way soon! Now, on top of remaking The Lone Ranger, some clever people in Hollywood are cooking up a tasty sequel to Dances with Wolves. YESSS.

“A sequel to Dances With Wolves entitled The Holy Road has just gone into pre-production with Simon Wincer at the helm. According to Variety, the film will be produced by Moonstone, Amicus Entertainment and Double Eagle Films.

The plot picks up eleven years after Wolves left off. The Comanche tribe is in steady decline, and the threat of white settlers looms on the horizon. The Holy Road refers to the transcontinental railroad. The Indian population saw it as a symbol of evil.“[Source]

A note for the ladies: Sadly, Kevin Costner will not be reprising his monotonical “role”, BUUUT none other than Viggo Mortensen is in talks to be filling Kevin’s shoes. And honestly, I think he’s perfect for it. I can’t think of a better guy to befriend Indians with his shirt off. Maybe there will be a naked shower fighting scene too??

xoxo

Spring is a time for new loves-real and imagined-and sexy bears awoke from their wintery slumbers.
Read all about them in our new online edition: SPRING 2008

photo courtesy: Jenny Frasier-Curator

VT2 is the title of a new exhibition that presents vibrant, innovative screen-based and photo-media works from international and Indigenous Australian new-media artists, building on 2007’s Vernacular Terrain exhibition.

photo courtesy: Jenny Frasier-Curator

For the first time a group of Aboriginal New Media Artists are included in the annual tour of International Digital Arts courtesy of Artist / Curator Jenny Fraser (QLD), also including work from: r e a (NSW), Jason Davidson (NT) and Andrew Hill (QLD) and a collaboration by Christine Peacock, John Graham & Rebekah Pitt (QLD) with Djon Mundine (NSW) offering the Curatorial Essay for the tour.Founded by Stephen Danzig in 1999, IDAprojects was the first nexus of its kind providing a platform for academia, research technologies and professional art practices in building a new discourse. For the past eight years the IDA program has grown to feature a national and international touring exhibition with an aim to present leading artists from around the world who engage in new media arts and research technologies.Launched in Brisbane on May 1, this year’s project reflects a global commitment to exploring cultural identity through leading professional arts practice in digital media from Curators Stephen Danzig, Lubi Thomas, Xu Da Wei, Matthew Perkins and Pauline Doutreluingne.QUT, in partnership with IDAprojects and the Beijing Film Academy has developed this international touring exhibition which will also be presented throughout Asia - including the Beijing Olympics Cultural Festival – and will later include a tour of regional Australia.

VT2

imagineNATIVE co-presents the Maori documentary GUARDING THE FAMILY
SILVER with filmmakers Moana Maniapoto & Toby Mills in attendance

Renowned Maori artists and filmmakers Moana Maniapoto (Te Arawa and Ngati Tuwharetoa) and Toby Mills (Ngati Raukawa and Ngati te Rangi) will be in attendance for a post screening discussion. Director/Researcher Moana Maniapoto is one of New Zealand’s most successful Indigenous singers and leader of the internationally-renowned ensemble Moana and the Tribe. A law graduate, Moana is also a veteran of radio and television broadcasting and was a talk show host on the first national Maori radio station. Producer/Director Toby Mills has a successful history as a film and stage actor and director of the first Maori theatre company Te Rakau Hua o te Wa o Tapu.

imagineNATIVE is pleased to be co-presenting GUARDING THE FAMILY SILVER as a part of the Indigenous Music and Dance as Cultural Property: Global Perspectives Colloquium presented by Memorial University in partnership with the University of Toronto.

For further information visit: http://www.moananz.com

Tickets available at the door.

click image to go to festival site.

DOXA Documentary Film and Video Festival 2008
Sunday, June 1 at 2:30pm
Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour St)

Tickets: www.doxafestival.ca

The Musqueam people have lived for thousands of years in and around what is now the city of Vancouver. (The word Musqueam is an anglicized term describing “where the Muxqui [river grass] grows.”) Director Kevin Lee Burton’s new film meticulously combines film language with Hunkamenum words to recreate Musqueam elder Larry Grant’s experience of rediscovering his language and cultural traditions.

A production of the National Film Board of Canada.

For more information about the film visit: www.nfb.ca/writingtheland

The 11th annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival started Wednesday the 16th and runs through April 24th. NAICA spoke with Director of Programming, Jacqueline Rush Rivera on the direction of the festival this year, must see films, new venues and where CLA is going (and they are going places) in the coming years. If you are in Austin, Tx or the surrounding areas in the coming week, make sure to take advantage of the excellent screening opportunities facilitated by this intimate and intelligently programmed film festival. And don’t forget to listen to the podcast below!

To learn more about the festival, the screening venues, and to view a film schedule visit www.cinelasamericas.org.

“The mission of Cine Las Americas is to promote cross-cultural understanding and growth by educating, entertaining and challenging the diverse Central Texas community through film and media arts.”

(F.Y.I. click on ‘download’ to listen to podcast. the popup player is acting a little kooky on this one.)

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15th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Join us for the WORLD PREMIERE of imagineNATIVE award-winning director Tracey Deer’s new film
CLUB NATIVE
Friday April 18, 6:30pm
BE THE FIRST TO EMAIL info@imagineNATIVE.org and WIN TWO FREE TICKETS
Bloor Cinema
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Sunday April 20, 2:15pm
Royal Ontario Museum

Tracey won Best Documentary for her feature, MOHAWK GIRLS at imagineNATIVE in 2005. Her new film is a brave look at the lives of four inspiring and eloquent women (including Waneek Horn-Miller) whose lives are forever changed when they fall in love with the wrong guys and “marry out” of their Mohawk Nation.

CLUB NATIVE, Canada, 78 min.
Falling in love with the wrong person can have devastating repercussions for Mohawks on the Kahnawake reserve in Quebec. Award-winning director Tracey Deer takes a courageous look at her home community, raising questions of identity, history and tradition through the lives of four inspiring Mohawk women. With warmth, depth and humour, stories unfold about the heartbreaking costs of “marrying out” of their Mohawk Nation, the challenges faced by kids of mixed backgrounds, and the conflict between love and preserving the fabric of their community. Having children with the men they love can mean forfeiting their offspring’s legal native status, including the right to live with their families on the reserve. The film doesn’t flinch from the history of Canada’s racist and sexist government policy, including the brutal force used against them during the Oka Crisis in 1990. A groundbreaking film and a powerful story of the triumph of love and the human spirit.

TO BUY TICKETS:
http://hotdocsaudience.bside.com/2008/films/clubnative_hotdocs2008

Daytime Screenings Tickets (before 6 pm) $10, evening screenings (between 6 pm-11 pm) are $12 each and Late Night Screenings (after 11PM) are $5. Order advance tickets and pass sales at the DOCUMENTARY Box Office (87 Avenue Road, 2 Blocks North of Bloor, upper level of Hazelton Lanes), online at www.hotdocs.ca, or by phone at 416-637-5150. On the day of the screening, all daytime screenings are FREE for students and seniors with valid ID, courtesy of the Toronto Star.

Hot Docs runs from April 17-27th. Visit www.hotdocs.ca for further information and detailed film descriptions.

Umiaq Skin Boat
Jobie Weetaluktuk

6:45 PM Fri, Apr 18
plays with...
Shock Waves - another great film about the power of independent radio to radically transform and empower the people of the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo
Al Green Theatre

12:00 PM Sun, Apr 20
plays with… Shock Waves
Royal Ontario Museum Theatre

Jobie Weetaluktuk’s previous film, Urban Inuk, was a huge success at imagineNATIVE in 2005.

Run time: 31 min. | Canada | Language: Inuktitut
Against the harsh Arctic magnificence of Inukjuak, Quebec Inuit elders share intimate personal stories and remarkable tales of survival as they build the first traditional seal skin boat their community has seen in more than 50 years. Once an essential vessel for travelling and hunting, the umiaq has been usurped by canoes powered with outboard motors. Traditional survival skills are melting away as rapidly as the ice caps in the North where sugar, warm houses and video games are the new necessities. UMIAQ exquisitely connects the boat’s construction to building cultural cohesion through anchoring a community in its rich history. In Inuktitut with English subtitles.

To Buy tickets:
http://hotdocsaudience.bside.com/2008/films/umiaqskinboat_hotdocs2008

Hot Docs Box Office: 416 637 5150
Www.hotdocs.ca