Indigenous Showcase

cINeDIGENOUS focuses on global Indigenous filmmakers sharing Indigenous stories and culture. Centering Indigenous art and artists amplifies voices and perspectives that are essential to our global well-being. ☀️

This program is curated and presented in partnership with Nia Tero.

Find the program at siff.info/cinedigenous23fb.

In partnership with Nia Tero, the 4th World Media Lab is a year-long traveling fellowship for emerging and mid-career Indigenous filmmakers, providing opportunities to develop filmmaking skills and networks through festival participation, hands-on training, master classes, workshopping projects in development, pitch activities, and meetings with funders and other industry decision-makers.

Meet the cohort at siff.info/4thworld2023fb.

The application for the 2023 cohort of the 4th World Media Lab is open now! If you have colleagues, peers, friends, or others you think would be great candidates for the fellowship, please share the application with them! Applications are open through November 30, find the app here:

https://bit.ly/4thworld2023app

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💸 Paid opportunity for Indigenous artists!

🎨 We're looking for an artist or artist group to create a mural on the McDermott Place building—home of our soon-to-be-open Lake City clinic.

✨ Interested? Click the link to review the official call for artists and submit your application by July 25: https://loom.ly/S3TeEtw

has launched , a global Indigenous media makers database. Learn more and create your profile today, because the future of film and television is Indigenous and inclusive!!

Www.KinTheory.org

Please share in your networks - an opportunity for Indigenous animators!

REEL TALK: 4th World Indigenous Media Maker Fellows (On Clubhouse)

Date/Time: Friday, September 24th, 2021, 2 - 3:00pm PDT
Join us on the audio-only social media platform Clubhouse for a conversation with past and present 4th World Indigenous Media fellows. This discussion will be guided by Kin Theory producer Jessica Ramirez.

Let us know you're joining us on Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/event/xkQA9WGo

Download the app the today CLUBHOUSE.
https://apps.apple.com/.../clubhouse-drop-in.../id1503133294

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Live from Seattle: a brand-new Indigenous radio station More than 90% of the songs aired on Daybreak Star Radio are written, produced or performed by Native American or First Nation peoples.

Join us, this Friday, August 20th at the Seattle Outdoor Movies at the Mural (9pm).

FEATURE FILM: BOY
Boy is a dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives with his brother Rocky, a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan. Boy’s other hero, his father Alamein, is the subject of Boy’s fantasies, and he imagines him as a deep sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson. In reality Alamein is an inept, wannabe gangster who has been in jail for robbery. When Alamein returns home after seven years away, Boy is forced to confront the man he thought he remembered, find his own potential and learn to get along without the hero he had been hoping for. Film courtesy of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i83jZT7Zlrw

Are you on Clubhouse?

Join us on Friday, August 13 (2pm PT) for a conversation about Indigenous-centered filmmaking.

Hosted by Nia Tero's Jessica Ramirez.
https://www.clubhouse.com/event/PNzv43X8

REEL TALK: Indigenous-centered filmmaking and cINeDIGENOUS 🔴 - Kin Theory Friday, August 13 at 2:00pm PDT with Jessica Ramirez, Julie Keck, Felipe Contreras. Join Nia Tero’s Creative Producer, Jessica Ramirez for a celebration of Indigenous focused films and an Indigenous-focused drive-in event in the Pacific Northwest.

'Reservation Dogs' Is Just the Beginning of an Indigenous Storytelling Explosion Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo's FX comedy signifies a new movement for Indigenous artists to write, direct, and star in their own stories.

PASIFIKA - Nia Tero is proud to announce the inaugural Pasifika Journalism Fellowship to support Native and Indigenous-led news reporting in the Pacific Islands. This fellowship will support 7 journalists who identify as Pacific Islanders (or pairs with a Pacific Islander lead) to cover stories about Pasifika peoples and their care of land and sea. Selected fellows/pairs will receive a $6000 USD stipend and attend 4 virtual gatherings. These virtual gatherings will include program facilitators and invited guests in the journalism industry to build the Fellows' networks within the industry and throughout the Pacific.

Learn more and apply on our website: https://bit.ly/3y0JW5J 💙

Today we mourn and we call for accountability.

7 wins at the Canadian Screen Awards. Lead actor, editing, production design, FX, make-up, costumes & stunts and nominations for best screenplay, cinematography and casting. It started during TIFF 14 years ago when Jeff turned to producer John Christou and said "what if indigenous people were immune to a zombie plague?"

Thank you to the Academy for this wonderful honour and congratulations to our amazing team.

First All-Indigenous Modelling Agency Wants to Fix a ‘Messed-Up’ Industry Supernaturals is likely the first agency with plans to bring in elders to support the models—and to be models themselves.

Congratulations Fruits of Labor!

Acclaimed PBS Television Series ‘POV’ Announces 34th Season, Reaffirming Public Media as a Platform for the People | American Documentary Powerful points of view into immigration, economic inequality and racial justice—more than half directed by people of color and women, with a spotlight on Latinx cinema

A film about an Aboriginal boy's experience of school has shone a light on Australia's failure to give all children a fair start.

The Aboriginal boy teaching Australia a lesson

Jana Schmieding is particularly proud of helping create Episode 4 of , which focuses on Michael Greyeyes’ character Terry.

“It was one of those episodes where I was weeping at times, but by the end, I was giving a standing ovation,” she says.

https://loom.ly/YV5yRKI

Jana Schmieding Reveals The 'Rutherford Falls' Moment That Made Her "Weep" Teacher-turned-actor Jana Schmieding breaks down how an extremely diverse writers' room made a standout episode of 'Rutherford Falls' possible for her and actor Michael Greyeyes.

We’ve been watching and it’s so good!

“Exterminate All the Brutes”: Filmmaker Raoul Peck Explores Colonialism & Origins of White Supremacy A new four-part documentary series, “Exterminate All the Brutes,” delves deeply into the legacy of European colonialism from the Americas to Africa. It has been described as an unflinching narrative of genocide and exploitation, beginning with the colonizing of Indigenous land that is now called...

Applications for this Fellowship close this Friday, April 30th...

https://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/film_institute2/education/native_filmmaker_initiative/4th_world_indigenous_media_lab

4th World Indigenous Media Lab | Big Sky Documentary Film Festival The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival celebrates the art of nonfiction film by giving voice to the powerful ideas that come forth in documentary. The festival is an important international platform, blending our inspiring Rocky Mountain setting with filmmaking of exceptional merit and artistic innov...

Sky Hopinka's Małni — Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore is a New York Times top pick, and we are screening it!! Catch it to celebrate this Earth Day, or through the moody next couple days to come. Tickets and info at nwfilmforum.org/calendar

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An essential portrait of contemporary Indigenous life that resists the touristic gaze, “Małni — Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore,” the debut feature from the Ho-Chunk artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka, isn’t too concerned with whether we fully understand the traditions and rituals it entrancingly commits to screen. It refreshingly centers the Native perspective, and beckons audiences onto its wavelength by tapping into something more intuitive, the stuff of dreams.

“You don’t have to say much,” says one of the film’s two subjects, Sweetwater Sahme, as she leads the filmmaker on a hike through the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, gesturing at the quivering foliage. “It’s a feeling, an energy. And there’s so much to look at.”

The documentary, anchored in the Chinookan origin-of-death myth (a dialogue between a wolf and a coyote about the afterlife), separately follows two young parents — pregnant Sahme and Jordan Mercier, both friends of Hopinka’s — as they grapple with questions of legacy and identity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/movies/malni-towards-the-ocean-towards-the-shore-review.html

‘Malni — Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore’ Review: Embracing Our Ghosts This ethereal experimental documentary by Sky Hopinka is an essential portrait of contemporary Indigenous life.

“It has to do with the way that Nuxalk people lived and treated things,” explained Hanuse. “They took care of others, the land and the waters, so people didn’t feed themselves until every other living being had a chance to eat. To me it represents the bigger picture of what’s going on within ourselves and our lives.”

Documentary to highlight importance of sputc for Nuxalk Nation - Coast Mountain News Sputc: We Shall Eat When the River is Full is a cinematic tale of wealth, loss and recovery

Join us tomorrow, April 20th at 6:30 pm PDT, for a conversation with the glorious Native Hawaiian artist, teacher, filmmaker - Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu ‘Kumu Hina’ (ps her short film is up for an OSCAR next week) It’s free if you use the code: NIATERO

cINeDIGENOUS: Kumu Hina and Native Hawaiian Identity - Virtual Class A conversation with filmmaker Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu (Kanaka Maoli) about being native in islands occupied by both American and Asian colonizers.

"I want there to be a dignified picture that people feel the love of the family and their strategies of survival and really enjoy Ashley’s perspective of the world, and to think differently about food labor and work in this country." director Emily Cohen Ibañez to AWFJ - Alliance of Women Film Journalists on what she hopes people take away from watching https://awfj.org/blog/2021/03/31/emily-cohen-ibanez-on-fruits-of-labor-and-agricultural-child-labor-sarah-knight-adamson-interviews/

Emily Cohen Ibanez on FRUITS OF LABOR and Agricultural Child Labor (SXSW21) – Sarah Knight Adamson Interviews – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS Interviews  Emily Cohen Ibanez on FRUITS OF LABOR and Agricultural Child Labor (SXSW21) – Sarah Knight Adamson Interviews March 31, 2021April 2, 2021 Sarah Knight Adamson documentaries, Emi;;y Cohen Ibanez, fruits of labor, sxsw 2021 0 Flares 0 Flares × The insightful film Fruits of Labor focuse...

Are you an Indigenous person living in what’s currently called North America, have at least 2-years professional filmmaking experience and are interested in a cohort style fellowship for a year? Please apply to our 4th World Media Lab! Application attached in the announcement.

4th World Indigenous Media Lab | Big Sky Documentary Film Festival The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival celebrates the art of nonfiction film by giving voice to the powerful ideas that come forth in documentary. The festival is an important international platform, blending our inspiring Rocky Mountain setting with filmmaking of exceptional merit and artistic innov...

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Indigenous designers successfully build brands From Milan Fashion Week to the Rocky Boy Reservation in Montana, these artists have garnered international attention for their work

Tune in tomorrow SIFF to check out our roundtable discussion with the directors of Fruits of Labor (Emily Cohen Ibañez) and Waikiki The Film (Christopher Kahunahana) to talk about sharing stories rooted in community voice and guided by the ancestors.

cINeDIGENOUS: Roots and Ancestors Roundtable Emily Cohen Ibañez (Fruits of Labor) and Christopher Kahunahana (Waikiki) discuss shaping narratives that counterbalance prevailing stereotypes and presumptions of the settler colonial gaze.