Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival

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Event is over.

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Tix $50/10.75

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Film, Festivals

When: Fri, May 26, 2017. Doors at 3:30 PM and 7:00 PM.
Where: Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema and World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St.
Tickets:
Turtle Island Shorts: $10.75
Friday Night Feature: $10.75
Festival Pass: $50.00 (earlybird, till May 14)

VIMAF presents an exciting variety of short films from local creators and representation from across Turtle Island (North America), followed by their Friday Night Feature, "All Our Father's Relations."

Turtle Island Shorts Program - 3:30 PM

Enjoy this exciting variety of short films from local creators and representation from across Turtle Island (North America). The selection highlights language and cultural resurgence, speaks to missing and murdered Indigenous women with artistic approaches and social perspectives.

The Re-Naming Of Pkols | 4:03 | Steven Thomas Davies | BC
Why Speaking Your Language is important | 7:07 | Jonathan Antoine | NWT
Hands To The Sky | 4:12 | Elizabeth LaPensée | Michigan, USA
Written In My Blood | 3:01 | Steven Thomas Davies | BC
Dasiqox Tribal Park: Nexwagwez?an - There For Us | 5:14 | Tsilhqot'in Nation Gov't/ Jeremy Williams | BC
Feather From Fish Lake | 7:36 | Tsilhqot'in Nation Gov't/ Jeremy Williams | BC
Sweat | 4:48 | Kristin Snowbird | Manitoba
Leanne Simpson- Oldest Tree In The World | 5:26 | Cara Mumford | Ontario
The Roundhouse | 9:35 | Theresa Warbus/ Natalia Rueda | BC
Aks Gyigyiinwa̱xł (Water Prayer) | 3:24 | Nick Dangeli | Vancouver
Strutting For Our Sisters | 5:12 | Gregory Coyes | Vancouver
Sister, Daughter | 26min | 3 Chiefs Film / Ali Ross | Vancouver

Reception - 6:00 PM

Join VIMAF for a reception at 6:00 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre. (Cash bar will be open.)

Friday Night Feature - All Our Father's Relations - 7:00 PM

VIMAF presents All Our Father's Relations.

Musqueam's Grant family share their incredible story as they journey from Vancouver to China and learn of their father's ancestry in his land. A Q&A will follow the film screening with Grant family and filmmakers in attendance. Doors open at 7:00pm. Prior to screening will be a trailer for Life In The City of Dirty Water that focuses on prolific Indigenous and environmental rights activist/organizer Clayton Thomas-Muller

Life In The City of Dirty Water: Trailer for Generosity | 3:04 | Clayton Thomas-Muller | Manitoba
All Our Fathers Relations | 56 min | Alejandro Yoshizawa, Sarah Ling | Vancouver

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