NFB/imagineNATIVE Interactive Partnership NFB/imagineNATIVE Interactive Partnership was started in 2012 for the commissioning and production of new digital and interactive works by established Indigenous artists. Works produced through this program include
De Nort (2012) by the ITWE Collective,
Similkameen Crossroads (2013) by
Tyler Hagan,
Ice Fishing (2014) by
Jordan Bennett and
Red Card (2016) by
Cara Mumford. Ice Fishing was subsequently selected to represent Canada at the 2015
Venice Biennale.
Stolen Sisters Digital Initiative The Stolen Sisters Digital Initiative (SSDI) was a 2012 imagineNATIVE artistic commission and national exhibition of four, one-minute digital works by award-winning Canadian Indigenous filmmakers. The commissioned works were created to reflect and respond to the
Stolen Sisters, a term adopted by the Aboriginal community and larger social justice organizations of the struggle to find answers for the hundreds of unsolved cases of
missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada. The four commissioned works were: •
Like it Was Yesterday by Calgary-based artists
Jesse Gouchey and
Xstine Cook •
Snare by Vancouver-based
Anishinaabe artist
Lisa Jackson •
When it Rains by the
Métis/
Chippewa Cree filmmaker Cara Mumford •
Your Courage Will Not Go Unnoticed by the
Gitxsan/
Lax Gibu artist and journalist
Angela Sterritt This was the first time the Festival partnered to present a simultaneous national exhibition. Working with
Amnesty International Canada and Pattison Onestop, a national media company, the short videos were exhibited throughout Toronto's subway system, on display screens in 33 shopping centres across Canada, at the
Calgary International Airport, and at the
TIFF Bell Lightbox leading up to and during the 2012 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
Zwei Indianer Aus Winnipeg In 2009, the festival commissioned
Zwei Indianer Aus Winnipeg, a short film by
Saulteaux filmmaker
Darryl Nepinak. The film subsequently screened at the 2009
Berlinale.
Embargo Collective In March 2008, imagineNATIVE formed the Embargo Collective, an international group of seven Indigenous artists for the purposes of collaborating and challenging one another to create seven new films. Collective members included
Helen Haig-Brown,
Heiltsuk/Mohawk filmmaker and actress
Zoe Leigh Hopkins and Anishnaabe filmmaker
Lisa Jackson. The resulting films were subsequently screened at the 2010 Berlinale. Following this, Brown's
The Cave was awarded a top-ten recognition at the
Toronto International Film Festival, and was screened at the 2011
Sundance Festival, while Jackson's
Savage won a 2011 Genie Award for best live action short drama. In 2014, Embargo Collective II focused on women filmmakers. It was curated by
Danis Goulet, and included Hopkins,
Blackfoot/
Sami filmmaker
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers,
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and
Caroline Monnet. Among the films produced that year was
Roberta. == Other programs ==