Tootoosis, who has starred in North of 60 and Big Bear, will open the festival on Thursday night at 7 p.m. with a presentation and screening of Gordon Tootoosis Screen, Stage and Reserve.
All festival activities take place at Scott Collegiate Theatre, 3350-7th Avenue in Regina. Everyone is welcome and admission is free. There will be popcorn and door prizes.
The festival continues the process of building intercultural dialogue in the community through the powers of artistic vision, imagination and the celebration of voice.
The festival is sponsored by the Aboriginal Youth Leadership Development Program, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, Scott Collegiate, University of Regina Indigenous Peoples’ Project, School of Journalism, Media Production and Studies, and Indian Communication Arts at SIFC.
INTERNATONAL INDIGENOUS FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Thursday March 27
7:00 p.m. Opening Ceremony
7:15 p.m. Personal Presentation by Gordon Tootoosis (North of 60, Big Bear)
7:30 p.m. Screening: Gordon Tootoosis Screen, Stage and Reserve
Friday March 28
1:30 p.m. Students’ Choice Screening: Pow Wow Highway, Windtalkers
or Once We Were Warriors
7:00 p.m. Screening: When the Mountains Tremble (narrated by Nobel Peace Prize winner and Mayan activist Rigoberta
Menchu)
8:30 p.m. Panel: Propaganda and the Human Costs of War: From the Mayans of Central America to the Tribal Peoples of the
East
Saturday March 29
10:30 a.m. Screening: Christmas at Wapos Bay & animation workshop with Aboriginal film maker Dennis Jackson
12:00 p.m. Free lunch
2:00 p.m. Screening: A Place Called Chiapas
4:00 p.m. Screening: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
7:30 p.m. Video & Panel Discussion: Other stories of Moccasin Flats (Scott Students)
8:00 p.m. Screening: Moccasin Flats (stories of a Regina neighborhood)
9:00 p.m. Social gathering; Scott Collegiate Canteen (Tamales, Pupusas, etc)