“Lack of awareness might be the most dangerous thing for Indigenous people,” says Salas, who worked with Porter last year to install water filtration systems in Six Nation homes. Produced and financed through Seeing Red 6 Nations, Salas’ prodco with Six Nations business exec Brian Porter, the doc, which Salas co-directed with James Burns, visits some of the worst-hit First Nations communities in North America as Staats listens to individuals working for change. Guitarist and music producer Stevie Salas, who is Apache, first realized the power of documentary to create awareness when he executive produced the multi-award-winning “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World.” He brings this concept to “Boil Alert,” which explores issues of water security and identity through the experiences of emerging activist Layla Staats, a Mohawk woman who lives on Six Nations of the Grand River (near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). What’s amazing is that we are now learning from each other.” “The opportunities are coming at us now, and so we have to mentor and create new filmmakers - the momentum is here,” says O’Bomsawin, who has several new docs in motion. Then we saw a shift in the culture and practices, and the funding started to come after ‘Pathways and Protocols,’” the 2019 media production guide to working with Indigenous communities and stories. “It was hard to put our own stuff out there. O’Bomsawin, who is president of Indigenous production shingle Terre Innue, says that she was “a token Indian” when she started in the screen industry 15 years ago. Shot over 75 days, often in places rarely seen on screen, the series - commissioned by the CBC - explores ancestral knowledge and contemporary experience across the themes of territory, identity, spirituality and rebuilding. It bows in TIFF’s Primetime section Off the Fence is handling U.S. The international version of Abenaki documentarian Kim O’Bomsawin’s four-part doc series “Telling Our Story,” part of a larger transmedia project, aims to decolonize the history of the 11 First Peoples in Quebec and surrounding areas. “If we are bringing our identity and strength into this film, there has to be drum-dancing and songs.” Isuma Distribution Intl. “When I was a child, it was rare to see drum-dancing because it was banned, but my father kept the tradition, thank goodness,” Tulugarjuk says. The healing power of community is shown in scenes - hunting and distributing of community food, traditional songs sung in Inuktitut, drum-dancing - that blend reality and fiction. With pandemic radio updates in the background, the sisters videochat about their daily lives and experiences of domestic abuse. We had to put that reality - the southern pandemic versus the Arctic pandemic “I was supposed to film in Igloolik (in Nunavut) over three seasons but when COVID hit, the world locked down. P.F.A.“Originally we were to be face-to-face in the same house,” Tulugarjuk, who is based in Montreal, tells Variety. Keep checking back as more titles are added (casting agreements are in italics the most recently added projects are denoted by an asterisk): FILMS The WGA ended its strike with the studios on September 27.īelow is the list organized by film and series based on the SAG-AFTRA list. The next day, it clarified that distributors looking to acquire films with interim agreements at festival would have to adhere to those terms in order to make a deal. On August 14, SAG-AFTRA said that it has altered its agreements policy and going forward would exclude WGA-covered projects shot in the U.S. Notable films in that category include Michael Mann’s Ferrari, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Other agreements give films clearance to promote at festivals. On July 27, SAG-AFTRA began granting casting-specific agreements that allow its members to “audition and/or engage in negotiations regarding casting for these productions, but may not yet travel, rehearse, or otherwise begin rendering services for the production.” SAG-AFTRA Tells Members It’s OK To Promote Their Movies With Interim Agreements At Film Festivals
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