Tour Program

2025 Tour Bookings Are Now Open​

The 2025 imagineNATIVE Tour is officially open for the season!

The Tour is imagineNATIVE’s largest year-round initiative outside of our annual Festival. The imagineNATIVE Tour brings Indigenous-made film works and community engagement activities to communities across Turtle Island (Canada), curated for:

  • Schools (including elementary, high school, and post-secondary)
  • Workplaces
  • Institutions
  • Libraries
  • Youth programs
  • Friendship centres
  • Community groups

The 2025 imagineNATIVE Tour programs offer a selection of Indigenous works from across Canada that were part of the 2025 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Official Selection. This year, we are proud to present two documentary features and three short film programs suitable for three age groups; you can find more information about the program selections below.

You can book screenings to take place either in-person or online! imagineNATIVE will work with you to help accommodate the delivery of a screening to your community.

To enhance the screenings, organizations can request an Artist Talk to accompany their booking (in-person or online) for an additional fee. Please include the name of the artist you would like to have in attendance at the screening when you complete the Booking Form, and we will do our best to coordinate schedules.

In addition to the Tour’s film programs, imagineNATIVE is excited to bring back our three-day Film + Video-Making Workshop for Indigenous youth! The workshop will bring an Indigenous artist from our Festival to your community to mentor youth in creating their own short film over the course of three days. The final projects will be showcased at a community screening on the last day. The workshop includes a screening of one of the Tour programs of your choice.

By the end of the Tour, all of the short films created in our workshops will be made available on our website and will be a part of an audience choice vote by the public; the winner’s film will be programmed in the next imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in June 2026! The selected artist will also have their travel and accommodations covered by imagineNATIVE to attend their screening at the Festival in Toronto.

Please fill out the Booking Form to begin the process of requesting a 2025 imagineNATIVE Tour screening in your community, school, or workplace. The Booking Form should be completed at least two weeks before your desired event.

If you have additional questions or concerns, please contact programming@imagineNATIVE.org.

Please note: As proud supporters of Indigenous artists, we charge screening fees that go directly to the artist(s) for their work. However, we are happy to negotiate screening fees with Indigenous communities, organizations, institutions, and youth programs.

Tour Bookings Opening Soon

The 2025 imagineNATIVE Tour will open for bookings on August 1, 2025. Stay tuned!

The imagineNATIVE Tour programs are one of imagineNATIVE’s largest initiatives outside our annual Festival. The imagineNATIVE Tour brings Indigenous-made film works and community engagement activities to communities across Turtle Island (Canada).

After each Festival, imagineNATIVE curates a selection of Indigenous works from across Canada that will be featured as part of the upcoming imagineNATIVE Tour Programs. In 2024, we were proud to present two documentary features, and three short film programs suitable for three age groups; you can find more information about the program selections below.

Please note that as proud supporters of Indigenous artists, we charge screening fees that go directly to the artist(s) for their work. However, we are happy to negotiate screening fees with Indigenous communities, organizations, institutions, and youth programs.

BOOKING FORM
2024 TOUR BROCHURE
2024 TEXT only BROCHURE

The 2025 imagineNATIVE Tour was made possible with support of the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Toronto Arts Council. Miigwetch to all of our Tour sponsors, partners, and supporters across Turtle Island!

2025 Tour Programs

Please review the programs offered as part of the 2025 imagineNATIVE Tour.

Feature Film Focus

Singing Back the Buffalo

Singing Back the Buffalo

Director: Tasha Hubbard (Cree)

Canada | 2024 | 98 min
English | Documentary Feature

Richly visualised and deeply uplifting, Singing Back the Buffalo is an epic reimagining of North America through the lens of buffalo consciousness and a potent dream of what is within our grasp.

Intended Audience:

Content Warning: Triggering Historical Trauma (Residential Schools, Indian Act, Sixties Scoop), Flashing/Strobing Lights

#skoden

#skoden

Director: Damien Eagle Bear (Blackfoot (Kainai))

Canada | 2025 | 76 min
English, Blackfoot | Documentary Feature

Every meme has its story. #skoden delves into the origins of NDN country’s most iconic meme to redefine the man at the center of it all, Pernell Bad Arm.

Intended Audience:

Short Film Focus

For the Youths

Starlight Sojourn, Follow, Ni Wapiten (I see), Home, Whistling Woods

Directors: Allison Anderson (Trondëk Hwech’in), Georgette McLoed (Trondëk Hwëch’in), Doug Winnipeg (Blackfoot), Paul O’Bomsawin (Abénaki), Charlene Moore (Cree), Tasha Hubbard (Cree), Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)

Canada | 2025-2025 | 45 min

Intended Audience: Appropriate for kids and families. 

Content Warning: Mild coarse language and violence.

For the Youths

Starbound, Nisihkason Lex, pî-kiwîk, N’xaxaitkw, Our Grandmother The Inlet

Directors: Madison Thomas (Ojibwe), Kaayla Whachell (Ryukyan/Métis), Keisha Erwin (nīhithaw (Woodland Cree)), Asia Youngman (Cree/Métis), Kayah George (Tsleil-Waututh/Tulalip), Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos

2022-2023 | 61 min

Woodland Cree, English

See films that are out of this world, legends come to life, ties to identity, connection to community, and responsibilities to uphold for our young generations.

Intended Audience: Appropriate for teens and young adult audiences.

Content Warning: Adult themes, coarse language, intergenerational trauma, MMIWG2S, use of alcohol, tobacco products, vapour products, or cannabis.

For the Elders​

Ancestral Threads, A Boy and His Loss, istén:′a, Redlights, The Golden Age, Nigiqtuq

Directors: Sean Stiller (Secwépemc), Michelle Derosier (Anishinaabe), KJ Edwards (Kanien′kehá:ka), Eva Thomas (Walpole Island First Nation/Tohono O’odham/Cherokee), Bawaadan Collective/Yuma Hester (Anishinaabe/Cree), Lindsay McIntyre (Inuit)

2022-2023 | 74 min

Cree, Inuktitut, English

Discover a diverse program of stories from Indigenous artists in Canada that draws connection to spirituality, identity, connection and justice in the past, present and future.

Intended Audience: Appropriate for mature audiences.

Content Warning: Adult themes, coarse language, gun violence historical trauma, residential school trauma, suicidal themes, violence.

Audience Size + Pricing

Take a look at the pricing of the imagineNATIVE Tour programs below! 

Program 1-50 Audience Members 51-150 Audience Members 151-300 Audience Members 301-500 Audience Members

Tautuktavuk
(What We See)

$873.96

$1,026.57

$1,255.50

$1,560.73

WaaPaKe

$870.23

$1,015.40

$1,233.16

$1,523.51

Short Film Program:
For the Grandbabies

$1,496.78

$1,565.65

$1,668.94

$1,806.67

Short Film Program:
For the Youths

$1,519.12

$1,632.65

$1,802.95

$2,030.01

Short Film Program:
For the Elders

$1,823.69

$1,961.41

$2,168.00

$2,443.46

Please note: These fees take into consideration Artist Fees, platform streaming fees, and administration fees. Prices are subject to change per booking.

ACCESSIBLE PDF

This year, we are excited to offer the imagineNATIVE Tour Brochure in an accessible format for all our viewers!

Coming soon. 

The imagineNATIVE Tour programs pricing is listed below. These fees take into consideration Artist Fees, platform streaming fees, and administration fees.

Program 1-50 Audience Members 51-150 Audience Members 151-300 Audience Members 301-500 Audience Members

Program 1

$1,179.32

$1,277.96

$1,425.93

$1,623.21

Program 1B

$981.77

$1,084.14

$1,237.68

$1,623.21

Program 2

$544.39

$702.59

$939.89

$1,256.29

2023 AUDIENCE SIZE + PRICING

The imagineNATIVE Tour programs pricing is listed below. These fees take into consideration Artist Fees, platform streaming fees, and administration fees.

Program 1-50 Audience Members 51-150 Audience Members 151-300 Audience Members 301-500 Audience Members

Program 1

$1,668.1

$1,815.84

$2,036.39

$2,330.46

Program 2

$525.78

$646.76

$828.22

$1,070.18

Program 3

$547.19

$710.97

$956.64

$1,284.21

For additional information, please contact our tour coordinator at tour@imagineNATIVE.org or call us at 416-585-2333 x 7.

The 2023 imagineNATIVE Tour was made possible with support of the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Toronto Arts Council. Miigwetch to all of our Tour sponsors, partners, and supporters across Turtle Island!