imagineNATIVE Tour makes stops in Northern Ontario

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imagineNATIVE goes on tour

Screening Indigenous-made film and video works throughout Ontario
 
TORONTO – The eighth annual imagineNATIVE Film + Video Tour returns February 21- April 5, 2012, bringing a selection of Indigenous-made film and video works from the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival to 13 communities in Ontario.

The tour presents a shorts program for youth, a two-day Youth Video- Making Workshop, and a free feature film for the entire family. 
 
The tour’s Youth Program encourages Indigenous youth to explore and discuss short film and video works made for or by youth that look at the often surreal, significant, and often funny, coming-of-age phase of a young person’s life.

The innovative Youth Video-Making Workshop gives pre-registered youth the opportunity to make a short video work using recording and editing equipment already available in their communities. 
 
Led by artist Keesic Douglas, participants of the video-making workshops will have their short films entered into an online voting contest.

With the support of their peers’ votes, the young directors will have the chance to win a trip to the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival where their video will be screened in October 2012.

Last year’s winner, Keelan Keeshig of Parry Sound, attended imagineNATIVE 2011, all expenses-paid, and had his short video screen at the sestival as a part of the Ever Loud, Ever Proud Youth Shorts Program.
 
This year’s Community Feature Presentation brings families the animated feature film Wapos Bay: Long Goodbyes, which closed the 2011festival.

Wapos Bay is a fascinating and often humorous portrait of life on a northern Saskatchewan First Nation and is based on the classic animated TV series. 

The Wapos Bay TV series earned four Gemini Awards between 2006 and 2010 and features the voices of the late Gordon Tootoosis (North of 60, Legends of the Fall), Andrea Menard (The Velvet Devil) and Lorne Cardinal (Corner Gas).
 
For program times, please visit here.

Shedule:

Timmins

February  21- 23,  Timmins High & Vocational School

February 23,   Timmins Native Friendship Centre
 
Hamilton

February  24,  Honouring The Circle, Hamilton
 
Moosonee/Moose Factory

February 28-March 1, Delores D. Echum Composite School, Moose Factory

February 29 , John R. Delaney Youth Centre, Moose Factory

March 2, Northern Lights Secondary School, Moosonee
 
Wikwemikong/Manitowaning

March  5, Wasse-Abin High School, Wikwemikong

March 6, Debajehmujig Creation Centre, Manitowaning
 
North Bay/Temagami

March 7, Bear Island Rec. Centre, Bear Island/Temagami

March 8, Nipissing University, North Bay
 
Sault Ste. Marie

March 9, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie
 
Thunder Bay

March 14-16, The Learning Café, Thunder Bay
 
Parry Sound

March 19-21,  Parry Sound High School
 
Saugeen First Nation

March 27-29, G.C. Huston Public School
 
Fort Albany First Nation

April 3-5,  Peetabeck Academy
 
About the Tour

The imagineNATIVE Film + Video Tour provides communities with accessibility to Indigenous-made work that may not otherwise be available in their region.

Each year the tour offers three unique programs: two film screenings, including the Youth Shorts Program and the Feature Presentation Program, along with the Youth Video-Making Workshop.

The Tour encourages youth to explore film and video through creating and viewing works made for or by their peers, and provides the larger community with the opportunity to see imagineNATIVE’s Closing Night screening. 
 
About the Festival

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival celebrates the latest works by Indigenous people at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media.

Each fall, the festival presents a selection of the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from Canada and around the globe.

The works accepted reflect the diversity of the world’s Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our arts and cultures in contemporary media. imagineNATIVE is the largest festival of its kind in Canada and the world.
 
Thank you to our tour partners: Telus, OCAD University, Southern Ontario Library Service, RPM.fm
 
This tour is made possible in part by a grant from the Ontario Arts Council’s Ontario Touring program
 
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