NATIONAL INDIGENOUS HISTORY MONTH

imagineNATIVE’s June Programming

Thank you for joining us through the month of June! Every year for National Indigenous History Month, imagineNATIVE puts together a series of public programming that invites audiences to visit Indigenous Cinema and artists throughout the month. This includes, but is not limited to, screenings, artist profiles, masterclasses, panels, exhibitions, and game jams!

Feature Friday 

This year, imagineNATIVE opened up the archives! Every Friday in June, we released award-winning films to watch on our on-demand site. Feature Fridays were free screenings, opened to all audiences to access and celebrate Indigenous-made 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Friday screening follows director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, as she joins her fellow Inuit activists as they challenge outdated perceptions of Inuit and present themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy. 

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.

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.

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.

To wrap up National Indigenous History Month, audiences were invited to a retrospective screening and artist talk from the iNOriginals collection! We were joined by filmmakers discussing their imagineNATIVE Originals projects and the path their careers have taken since making these films.

FLOW 

As part of a special commissioning project, we had a sneak peek of the audio works created through FLOW. There is more to come at the 2022 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival!

FLOW will be presenting six Indigenous artists who have created audio works that connect distant listeners to bodies of water through sonic storytelling. Meditating on sites such as lakes, rivers, bays, glaciers, ponds, and seas, these unique works use sound to explore ancestral ontologies at the intersections of water, geographies, and Indigenous bodies.

All works created throughout this commissioning project will be presented as part of a special exhibition during the imagineNATIVE Festival in October!  

LAND JAM 

imagineNATIVE put on the second iteration of LAND JAM, our very own Indigenous game jam! Much like a hack-a-thon, Indigenous creatives teamed up to make original works from scratch.

LAND JAM took place over 5 days, from Wednesday, June 22nd to Sunday, June 26th. Creatives from different disciplines worked in teams to develop original video games and interactive works.

All works created during LAND JAM will be presented as part of a special showcase during the imagineNATIVE Festival in October!

Be sure to keep an eye out for more exciting updates to come!