[van-announce] Spirits of Resistance - ImageNation Film Festival

[Tania Willard]

pls. forward

Sunday November 10th, Van East Cinemas ( 2290 Commercial Drive)
$5 or pay as you can!!!!!!
ImageNation Film Festival runs from the 7th-10th
with plenty great programming so come check it out!

Redwire Native Youth Video and ImageNation Present:
Aboriginal Film Festival :
Youth Program Nov. 10 3-6:30 pm

Features:

Spirits of Resistance, Land is Life
Produced by: Redwire and Ugnayan ng Kabataan Filipino Sa Canada 
( Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance)
Producer, Director, Writer: Tania Willard, Secwepemc, Billie Pierre, 
N’klapamux, Yvette Stephenson, Kapampangan/Itneg-Masadiet Tribe 
( Phillipines)
Running Time: 40 min
This video highlights the experiences of three young Indigenous women 
who travelled to the first International Indigenous youth conference in 
Baguio city, Philippines. Presenting  aspects of the struggle of the 
Indigenous people of the Cordillera, Phillipines in defense of their 
land, resources and life and their resistance to imperialist 
globalisation.  Fighting against development aggression and 
militarization the srtuggle for self determination is global, Indigenous 
youth have started to work on an International  and community level 
towards achieving self determination. Told through inteviews, footage 
from four rural communities and through the culture and spirit of 
indigenous resistance.

Prisoners Of Neo-liberalism
Producer, Writer, Director: Emiliano Velasco
Running Time: 15 min
This video is footage and interviews from Emiliano’s tour of prisons and 
his work with Mexican political prisoners and Indigenous activists. 
Scenes of resistance and the words of freedom fighters pack this video 
with a strong message.

Program:
City
Producer: Gulf Islands Film and Television School
Director, Writer: Michelle Ryan,
Running time: 1 min 35 sec
City is a short and fluid look at cityscapes set to an musical score 
that is frenzied as the city.

Answering Machine
Producer, Writer, Director: Lindsay Bomberry, Onondoga
Running Time: 7 min 10 sec
An abstract look at a chilling account of a disappeared woman from the 
Downtown Eaastside told through answering machine messages. A powerful 
and experimental short

Resolution
Writer, Director, Producer: Skeena Reece, Tsimshian/Cree
Running Time: 4 min
This short uses film and video and soundscapes to memorialize elements 
of the residential school experience. Skeena created this piece while 
attending Emily Carr College of Art and Design, we can always expect 
engaging work from this young filmmaker.

Land Claims
Producer:
Director, Writer: Richard L.V. Larson, Métis
Running Time: 2 min 18 sec
A thought provoking look at Native land claims, this piece references 
archival footage with it’s use of black and white Super 8/16mm film.



Raven The Great Salmon Hunter
Producer, Director, Writer: Chris Auchter, Haida
Running Time: 7min 15sec
Chirs Auchter’s cartoon celebrates a Haida story about how Raven learned 
to fish. This animation short is brilliantly expressive and 
entertaining. Raven and Eagle come to life, their stories to be passed 
to a new generation in a new medium.

A Decked in Tale
Director, Writer: Molly Gaeta
Running Time: 5:15
A Decked in Tale is an experimental animation featuring Alice in 
Wonderland Tarot cards. This story explores the independent roles of 
each tarot card in a special reading event. Produced through Projections 
a video and film training program for youth in Downtown Eastside and 
Downtown South communities.

Vadzaih: Gwich’in Youth  on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Producer: Leanne Allison, Elaine Alexie, Gwich’in
Running time: 7min.
Vadzaih means caribou in the language of the Gwich’in – one of the last 
native cultures still living off the land in North America. This seven 
minute film documents the importance of the Porcupine Caribou Herd to 
the Gwich’in youth of northern Canada and Alaska-a generation fighting 
to retain their traditional culture in a fast changing world.

People of the River
Producer: Capilano College, Aboriginal Film Program
Director, Writer: Odessa Shuquaya, Southern Tutchone
Running Time: 15min
This video looks at the importance of salmon and fishing to the Stölo 
Nation and the culture. From ‘illegal’ fishing and Department of 
Fisheries and Oceans patrols to the daily lives and subsistence 
economies that salmon has supported for thousands of years.

Home
Producer: Video Pool
Writer, Director: Colleen Simard
Running Time: 2 min 45 sec
Home deals with the conflicting worlds of Aboriginal people, the view of 
the urban Aboriginal and the view of the rural Aboriginal. Often the 
urban side is seen as very negative, which it can be

Can U Hear Me
Producer: Video Pool
Director, Writer: Alfred Swampy
Running Time: 4min 46 sec
As a joke Alfred, 14, once said that Stoney Mountain Penitentiary would 
be his future house. Today he interviews Joe Bushie, an inmate serving a 
life sentence about life in jail. Alfred reflects on his own life and 
the possibilities of the future. Produced through the Aboriginal teen 
Video initiative.

Magic Wheel – Voices For Change
Producer: Curtis Cameron, Cree
Coordinator: Genvieve Leis
Running Time: 7 min 30 sec
Through the eyes of youth we examine racism as a reality and how it 
impacts the lives of children and youth. Youth share their perspectives 
on what they want for their future.

J’unam
Producer: Video Machete
Youth Voices : Mia Alfonso, Pavel Godoy, Eden Muralles Paz, Nicholas 
Heaton, Brandy Heaton and César Sanchez
Running Time: 15 min
Ju’Nam (a Maya Quiché word meaning “all together”), was produced by a 
group of native youth all living in Chicago. The youth discuss how 
native identity – from both north and south – is transformed in a 
displaced urban environment.

Pequeña
Producer: Video Machete and member of Taos Red Willow Reservation
Running Time: 7 min
Shot all in one day by 10 year old Peter from Taos Red Willow 
Reservation this video shows a community coming together to restore 
pueblo walls that were vandalized by someone in the community. A 
community comes together during the restoration of the adobe walls. In 
English and Spanish ( no subtitles)



Total Film Time 2h 35 min.
Program: 1:30 hr shorts 15 min break then speakers panel 45 min and 
features 1 hr: Total program time 3 hours 30 min

Speakers Panel: Indigenous youth and allies:
Media as a tool to build International Solidarity,
Indigenous Media, Why is it important?

Speakers:

Jennifer Ramos Awingan
Cordillera People’s Alliance Youth Centre, Philippines
Jennifer recently helped to organize the first International Indigenous 
Youth Conference in the Phillippines. She works with the Cordillera 
People’s Alliance Youth Center promoting the concerns of Indigenous 
youth in the Cordillera, Northern Phillipines.

Emiliano Vasquez
Emiliano recently returned from Mexico where he was part of a Human 
Rights Commission documenting the state of imprisoned Mexican political 
prisoners and Indigenous rights activists.

Nitannis Desjarlais
Filmmaker and Indigenous Rights activist, Nitannis works in a 
documentary style covering controversial issues from the perspective of 
the warriors who are on the front lines of addressing Native issues in 
Canada.


Kamala Todd
Kamala Todd is a filmmaker and focuses on breaking the silences of 
colonialism through telling the stories that have been hidden for too 
long. Stories and place are the subject of her up and coming new work.



Tania Willard, Editor, Redwire Magazine
Redwire Native Youth Media
Po Box 34097 Station D
Vancouver, BC V6J 4M1
Phone:604-602-7226/604-639-9039
Fax: 604-689-4242
Email: tania at redwiremag.com
Web: www.redwiremag.com
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