Events
imagineNATIVE’s Events
imagineNATIVE presents Indigenous-made screen content all year round through the imagineNATIVE Tour, curated programming, co-presentations with partners and collaborators, and other special events. Check out our upcoming events and screenings below!
Upcoming Events
Event Description
Sense of independence–what is it for you and me? Creating a nation outside of a state–is that possible? Did we fail? What am I inhabiting? What inhabits me?
Taking place in the Yakutian Arctic, or the Republic of Sakha Yakutia, filmmaker Svetlana Romanova graciously invites the audience into her line of inquiry that vitally challenges settler narratives wholly linked to the popular imagination of the Arctic regions. Voyage of Jeanette is an experimental, discursive essay film that navigates western ontologies and its myths of discovery alongside Yakutian realities.
Date + Time
Monday, April 15, 2024
7:30 PM ET
Location
Innis Town Hall
2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
Accessibility
Sidewalk-level entrance, elevator and ramp available, door width 32 inches, no automatic doors. No accessible parking on-site. Four wheelchair accessible seats in the cinema. 15 step-free seats in row 9. Accessible gender-neutral washroom located on the 2nd and 3rd floor.
COVID-19 Policy
Images Festival is committed to providing an accessible festival and continues to work to reduce barriers to participation at our events. This year, we are implementing a COVID-19 policy to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission for all, and to prioritize the participation of people who are disability-identified, immunocompromised, or part of an otherwise vulnerable group.
The following guidelines will be in place: Self-Assessment – we ask that staff and participants screen themselves for COVID-19 before visiting the exhibition.
Tickets
For tickets and more information please visit imagesfestival.com/events/voyage-of-jeanette.
Event Description
imagineNATIVE and REEL CANADA are presenting a FREE screening of Cafe Daughter by Shelley Niro as part of National Canadian Film Day at Galaxy Cinemas Brantford on April 17, 2024, 7:00 PM ET. Stay after the screening for a Q&A with director Shelley Niro!
Based on the Kenneth T. Williams play of the same name and inspired by true events, CAFE DAUGHTER is a coming-of-age story about a young Chinese-Cree girl in Saskatchewan who begins to embrace her Cree identity after a family tragedy.
Date + Time
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
7:00 PM ET
Location
Galaxy Cinemas Brantford
300 King George Rd, Brantford, ON N3R 5L7
Tickets
Register for your FREE tickets at bit.ly/CanFilmDay-CafeDaughter.
Event Description
We are so happy to be co-presenting with Hot Docs this year for the screening of Singing Back the Buffalo. Veteran Indigenous filmmaker Dr. Tasha Hubbard takes on a cinematic journey as Indigenous nations throughout North America restore Buffalo to the lands they once defined.
Singing Back the Buffalo is part of the Hot Docs Land|Sky|Sea program and will be playing at TIFF Lightbox Friday, April 26th at 5:30pm, and Monday, April 29th at 12:00pm.
Date + Time
Friday, April 26th 5:30 PM ET
Monday, April 29th at 12:00 PM ET
Location
TIFF Lightbox
350 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3X5
Tickets
Tickets are on sale and available on the Hot Docs website or you can follow the link:
https://bit.ly/HD2024XINMAF
Event Description
Tune into Images Festival’s official selection of animated films entitled A Little More Connected, on Saturday morning from 7:00 AM until noon online. This program is available to early risers and deep sleepers alike.
Date + Time
Saturday, April 13, 2024
7:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
Intended Audience
The program is child friendly, though parental discretion is advised.
Accessibility
Available with closed captioning
Event Description
Sense of independence–what is it for you and me? Creating a nation outside of a state–is that possible? Did we fail? What am I inhabiting? What inhabits me?
Taking place in the Yakutian Arctic, or the Republic of Sakha Yakutia, filmmaker Svetlana Romanova graciously invites the audience into her line of inquiry that vitally challenges settler narratives wholly linked to the popular imagination of the Arctic regions. Voyage of Jeanette is an experimental, discursive essay film that navigates western ontologies and its myths of discovery alongside Yakutian realities.
Date + Time
Monday, April 15, 2024
7:30 PM ET
Location
Innis Town Hall
2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
Accessibility
Sidewalk-level entrance, elevator and ramp available, door width 32 inches, no automatic doors. No accessible parking on-site. Four wheelchair accessible seats in the cinema. 15 step-free seats in row 9. Accessible gender-neutral washroom located on the 2nd and 3rd floor.
COVID-19 Policy
Images Festival is committed to providing an accessible festival and continues to work to reduce barriers to participation at our events. This year, we are implementing a COVID-19 policy to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission for all, and to prioritize the participation of people who are disability-identified, immunocompromised, or part of an otherwise vulnerable group.
The following guidelines will be in place: Self-Assessment – we ask that staff and participants screen themselves for COVID-19 before visiting the exhibition.
Tickets
For tickets and more information please visit imagesfestival.com/events/voyage-of-jeanette
Event Description
imagineNATIVE and REEL CANADA are presenting a FREE screening of Cafe Daughter by Shelley Niro as part of National Canadian Film Day at Galaxy Cinemas Brantford on April 17, 2024, 7:00 PM ET. Stay after the screening for a Q&A with director Shelley Niro!
Based on the Kenneth T. Williams play of the same name and inspired by true events, CAFE DAUGHTER is a coming-of-age story about a young Chinese-Cree girl in Saskatchewan who begins to embrace her Cree identity after a family tragedy.
Date + Time
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
7:00 PM ET
Location
Galaxy Cinemas Brantford
300 King George Rd, Brantford, ON N3R 5L7
Tickets
Register for your FREE tickets at bit.ly/CanFilmDay-CafeDaughter.
Event Description
Tautuktavuk (What We See)
Directors: Carol Kunnuk (Inuit), Lucy Tulugarjuk (Inuit)
Canada | 2023 | 82 min | Documentary Feature
After experiencing a traumatic event in Igloolik (an Inuit hamlet in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut), Uyarak leaves her community and family in Nunavut to live in Montréal. When Covid-19 lockdowns close off the Canadian Arctic from the rest of the world, Uyarak is further separated from her closest friend, eldest sister, Saqpinak. This extreme situation blurs the lines of both the fictional lives of the sisters, and the non-fiction lives of the film’s directors, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Carol Kunnuk, who play the sisters.The film becomes a series of vignettes of heartache and healing – both in the dramatic based-on-true-events narrative, and the lived reality of these characters and creators.
Location
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
6265 Crescent Rd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Time
8:00 PM EST
Intended Audience
Appropriate for mature audiences.
Content Warning
Domestic violence; use of alcohol, tobacco products, vapour products, or cannabis.
Be sure to keep an eye out for more exciting updates to come!
imagineNATIVE’s June 2022 Programming
Every year for National Indigenous History Month, imagineNATIVE puts together a series of public programming throughout June. This includes, but is not limited to, screenings, artist profiles, panels, masterclasses, exhibitions and game jams.
FEATURE FRIDAY
This year, imagineNATIVE is opening up the archives. Each Friday in June we will release award-winning films to watch on our on-demand site. Feature Fridays are free screenings of Indigenous-made classics for all audiences to access and celebrate. All films will be available to watch for one week–don’t miss your chance to catch these classics.
WEEK 1 | Friday, June 3rd | 10:00 am EST Release
Angry Inuk
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | 85 mins
Our first Feature Friday screening follows director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril as she joins her fellow Inuit activists who challenge outdated perceptions of Inuit and present themselves to the world as modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.
Available in Canada only
WEEK 2 | Friday, June 10th | 10:00 am EST Release
Mothers of the Land | Sembradoras de vida
Alvaro Sarmiento, Diego Sarmiento | 74 mins
Alvaro and Diego Sarmiento’s Mothers of the Land accompanies five women from the Peruvian Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land.
Available worldwide
WEEK 3 | Friday, June 17th | 10:00 am EST Release
Boy
Taika Waititi | 87 mins
As we move into our third screening and the week of Indigenous Peoples Day, we follow the journey of Boy, a dreamer who loves Micahel Jackson. 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.
Available in Canada only
FEATURE FRIDAY
This year, imagineNATIVE is opening up the archives. Each Friday in June we will release award-winning films to watch on our on-demand site. Feature Fridays are free screenings of Indigenous-made classics for all audiences to access and celebrate. All films will be available to watch for one week–don’t miss your chance to catch these classics.
WEEK 1 | Friday, June 3rd | 10:00 am EST Release
Angry Inuk
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | 85 mins
Our first Feature Friday screening follows director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril as she joins her fellow Inuit activists who challenge outdated perceptions of Inuit and present themselves to the world as modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy.
Available in Canada only
WEEK 2 | Friday, June 10th | 10:00 am EST Release
Mothers of the Land | Sembradoras de vida
Alvaro Sarmiento, Diego Sarmiento | 74 mins
Alvaro and Diego Sarmiento’s Mothers of the Land accompanies five women from the Peruvian Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land.
Available worldwide
WEEK 3 | Friday, June 17th | 10:00 am EST Release
Boy
Taika Waititi | 87 mins
As we move into our third screening and the week of Indigenous Peoples Day, we follow the journey of Boy, a dreamer who loves Micahel Jackson. 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.
Available in Canada only
WEEK 4 | Friday, June 24th | 10:00 am EST Release
Into the Water
iN Originals retrospective screening and artist talk
To wrap up National Indigenous History Month, join us for a retrospective screening and artist talk from the iNOriginals collection. We will be joined by filmmakers discussing their imagineNATIVE Originals projects and the path their careers have taken since making these films.
Available in Canada only
FLOW
As part of a special commissioning project, six Indigenous artists have created audio works that connect distant listeners to bodies of water through sonic storytelling. These artists meditated on sites such as lakes, rivers, bays, glaciers, ponds and seas. These works use sound to explore ancestral ontologies at the intersections of water, geographies and Indigenous bodies.
WEEK 1 | Sunday, June 12th, 2022 | 10:00 am EST Release
Suzanne Morrissette
Morrisette is an artist, curator and scholar living in Toronto. She is guided in her work by her roles as a daughter, partner, mama, sister, niece, aunt, granddaughter, friend and colleague.
Casey Koyzen
Koyzen is a Tlicho Dene interdisciplinary artist from Yellowknife, NT that uses various mediums to communicate how culture and technology can grow together so we can develop a better understanding of who we are, where we come from and who we will be in the future.
WEEK 2 | Sunday, June 19th, 2022 | 10:00 am EST Release
Marc Fussing-Rosbach
Fussing-Rosbach is an award-winning Inuk filmmaker, CEO and Founder of FUROS IMAGE. As an independent filmmaker, Marc does everything from start to finish working on feature films, short films, music videos and trailers.
Tom McLeod
An Inuvialuit Storyteller from Aklavik, Northwest Territories in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. A former radio personality, Mcleod told stories of traditional Inuvialuit and Gwich’in activities such as hunting, trapping, fishing, and traveling his traditional lands across the NWT and Yukon.
WEEK 3 | Sunday, June 26th, 2022 | 10:00 am EST Release
Pamela Palmater
Palmater is an award-winning podcaster who produces and hosts the Warrior Life Podcast and the Warriors Kids Podcast. Pam is also a lawyer, professor and human rights advocate who has won many awards for her community-based work in relation to Indigenous rights, human rights, social justice and climate action.
Laura Ortman
Ortman (White Mountain Apache) is a soloist musician, composer and vibrant collaborator who creates across multiple platforms including recorded albums, live performances and filmic and artistic soundtracks.
Check weekly on the iNdigital Space for new releases.
LAND JAM
June 22-26th, 2022
imagineNATIVE is putting on the second iteration of LAND JAM: our very own Indigenous game jam. Much like a hack-a-thon, Indigenous creatives will team up to make original works from scratch.
LAND JAM will take place over 5 days, from Wednesday June 22nd to Sunday June 26th. Creatives from different disciplines will work in teams to develop original video games and interactive works. LAND JAM takes place virtually on Discord, and welcomes all Indigenous creatives. We’ll be providing meals, mentorship sessions, virtual goodie bags, cash prizes and a fun closing party!
All works created during LAND JAM will be presented as part of a special showcase during the imagineNATIVE Festival in October.
To register for LAND JAM, please fill out a form found below by June 10th. For more information on this event and how it works, please see the attached booklet.
**This is a closed event for artists who have registered**