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Winnipeg Free Press
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
After a year off, Indigenous film festival ImagineNative returns for 25th anniversary
TORONTO – After taking a year off, organizers at the country's most prominent Indigenous film festival say they are moving ahead with a belated 25th anniversary. The ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival opens at Toronto's TIFF Lightbox on June 3 with 'Endless Cookie,' an animated documentary about a pair of half-brothers, one Indigenous and one white. The film picked up the $50,000 audience award at Toronto's Hot Docs Festival earlier this month. An outdoor screening of the 2024 horror-comedy 'Seeds' closes the fest on June 8 at Fort York. The film is about a Mohawk social media influencer who signs a contract with a suspicious corporate seed company. ImagineNative returns after it scrapped plans for its 2024 edition, which would've marked its quarter-century anniversary. At the time, executive director Naomi Johnson said they needed more time to support the festival's growth, develop new programming ideas and themes. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. The move included shifting its normally fall-based event to June to coincide with Indigenous Peoples' Month. Organizers say this year's overarching theme centres on seedkeeping and the passing down of seeds to the next generation. The 2025 edition runs from June 3 to 8 in Toronto, with an online component from June 9 to 15. Other events tied to ImagineNative this year include its industry days, which feature panels and networking events for the Indigenous community, as well as a closing awards show at the Lightbox with comedian Janelle Niles as host. ImagineNative launched in 2000 and is billed as 'the largest annual Indigenous media arts event in the world.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 8, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
‘Endless Cookie' wins $50,000 audience award at Hot Docs Festival
An animated documentary about the relationship between an Indigenous and white pair of half-brothers has won the top prize at this year's Hot Docs Festival. 'Endless Cookie' took home the $50,000 audience award at a ceremony on Sunday. Festival organizers described the film, directed by brothers Seth and Peter Scriver based on their own lives and families, as 'a colourful collage of animated vignettes' that explore their 'complex bond.' Other awards handed out at the festival in recent days include the $10,000 award for best Canadian feature documentary, which went to 'Agatha's Almanac,' directed by Amalie Atkins. The film portrays a 90-year-old Mennonite woman's life alone on her ancestral farm in southern Manitoba, and jurors praise it as 'poetic and playful, yet intensely political.' Meanwhile the $10,000 award for best international feature documentary went to 'I, Poppy,' Vivek Chaudhary's film about an Indian farmer's fight against corrupt officials. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 4, 2025.
