I Plowed the Sacred Soil is a feature-length documentary about the File Hills Farm Colony Experiment on the Peepeekisis Cree Nation. Descendants of this Saskatchewan Treaty Four reserve talk about their families’ struggle to maintain a farming community under the original treaty agreement of 1874. The story focuses on William Morris Graham, a government-appointed Indian Agent and his 1898 “failed” attempt to solve the “Indian problem.”
Canada
istén:’a
A recounting of a visit from my mother in spirit, this film looks to dreamspace as a meeting place, where we can connect with our loved ones, who we are always tethered to.
Summer 2000 (Éte 2000)
9 year-old Sarah is quietly discovering love when an assault derails her sexual awakening. Summer 2000 is an intimate and delicate tale in which the play between different mediums offers an insight into gender performativity and consent.
Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World
From Halifax to Vancouver, Canadian feminist storytellers of the 1970s to 1990s took hold of cutting-edge media technology to document everything from violence towards women to how to insert a diaphragm.
Out of the Hands of the Wicked
After a harrowing journey home from hell, old Pa boasts of his triumph over evil, and how he came to lock the devil in his heart. Now, against the protests of his family, Pa must return from whence he came to save the ones he loves from the hands of the wicked.
"Out of the Hands of the Wicked" is a new southern gothic puppet musical, with an original score by The Holy Gasp.
EXILE
An immigrant's last attempt to restore childhood innocence on strange lands.