Attention Film Lovers!!!
3rd
Annual Aboriginal Film and Video Festival
Vancouver,
Canada
November
1st - 5th 2000
IMAG
– the Indigenous Media Arts Group, is a Vancouver based collective which seeks
to bring a refreshing new look at aboriginal people on the screen and behind the
camera. The collective is committed
to building up resources for new media producers and by providing professional
development opportunities for aboriginal people. IMAGeNation 2000 follows on the success of the first two
Aboriginal Film and Video Festivals held in Vancouver.
Works range from narratives on resistance, experimental videos to feature
films and hard hitting documentaries.
The
festival will share Native Narratives with works that are directed, produced or
written by and about aboriginal people. Beginning
November 1, there will be 5 days of programming, with opening night at the
Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre where Shirley Cheechoo will present her
feature film Backroads as well as her new documentary Tracks in the
Snow, a Vancouver premiere. Backroads
was voted third most popular film at
the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Premieres include: Jim Fortier’s new documentary on the 1969 Alcatraz
occupation Alacatraz
Is Not An Island which will
be screened as a benefit for Leonard Peltier.
Ojibway producer Darlene Naponse will be on hand for an artist talk and
screening of her new works including a rough cut of her new feature. Also
acclaimed feature film by Jorge Manzano, Johnny Greyeyes will be
screened. The Reel Warriors program will be back as well as the comedy
night and kids program. A panel discussion for Saturday November 4th has the title
of Aboriginal People and the Media: from Media Literacy to Media Militancy with
panelists: Loretta Todd, Howard Adams and Robert Free to speak on the role of
native people’s treatment in the media, what part must aboriginal media
organizations play to lessen the negative impact and become more assertive in
producing representationally accurate media messages
This festival has been sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Indigenous Media Arts Group. Venues include the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre 1602 E. Hastings, VanEast Cinema 2290 Commercial Drive, and Video In Studios 1965 Main Street.
Tel:
604-871-0173, fax: 604-871-0191.