A local Indigenous filmmaker has created a film festival to help foster Saskatoon’s emerging film industry and bring awareness of Indigenous cinema to the Prairies.
Many different styles and genres of film will be on display, with a horror film night taking place on Friday at the Roxy Theatre.“Storytelling is so important in our culture and this is just another form,” Greyeyes said. “It’s visual storytelling and we’re natural storytellers as Indigenous folks. As traditionally oral people, storytelling is our gift.
, is playing at the festival on Friday evening at the Remai Modern Art Gallery. She created it with the youth at Chokecherry Studios. The festival is an opportunity for Saskatchewan filmmaker Janine Windolph to show her film for the first time. Her new National Film Board of Canada documentary,“Because my grandmother was a missing woman for 23 years it was a way to help foster healing so that my kids can be able to get to know their Atikamekw Cree side,” Windolph said. “My kids were really the motivator, and actually it was my eldest who pitched the film idea.