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The Call for entries deadline has expired for the 2013 First Peoples Festival/ Présence autochtone Film & Video Showcase.
Thank you to all who submitted their works!
The program will be officially announced mid-June.
23nd edition of First Peoples' Festival Présence autochtone
Film & Video Showcase
July 30st to August 5th 2013
Les Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (entre le 7 et le 18 novembre 2012) présentent plusieurs films qui abordent des thématiques liées aux Premières Nations.
C’est l’occasion de découvrir le dernier Alanis Obomsawin, The People of the Kattawapiskak River; de revoir l’excellent Reel Injun : d’applaudir les gestes de résistance des Innus filmés par Réal Junior Leblanc dans Blocus 138, court métrage qui précèdera la projection, en première mondiale, de La Nouvelle Rupert de Nicolas Renaud.
Takum Kuikuro (dont les habitués de Présence autochtone ont déjà pu apprécier The Smell of the Pequi Fruit) est un des coréalisateurs de The Hyper Women (As Hipermulheres) présenté par les RIDM en première nord-américaine.
À voir également, d’Argentine, L’Ethnographe sur un ethnologue qui change de camp et épouse la cause autochtone après avoir marié une Wichi; et de Russie The Tundra Book : A Tale of Vukvukai, The Little Rock.
Présence autochtone invite donc les cinéphiles qui s’intéressent aux cultures premières et au cinéma des Premières Nations à se procurer les billets pour assister à la projection de ces films remarquables.
Documentaires présentés :
Horaire et information : ridm.qc.ca
Civic ceremony to mark the day
Dances, drumbeats and honour songs in Old Montreal
At noon on Place Jacques-Cartier
Meeting point at Place Vauquelin beside the townhall at 11 30 AM to embark on a joyous march to where the fire burns.
Other activities will follow, linked to the 11 Nations show: a live demonstration of traditional arts and crafts all afternoon at the southern edge of Marché Bonsecours and a performance by Innu singer Katia Rock at 3 p.m. Then, at 7 p.m., Florent Vollant will take to the stage of Salle Gilles-Carle. Will also be kicked off a segment devoted to a young emerging performer, the Mohawk Gage John Lazare.
At the Montreal Native Friendship Centre, 2001 St-Laurent Boulevard, several workshops will be hosted: beading, making dreamcatchers, stone carving, etc. A community supper will follow at 6 p.m.
Land Insights wishes to thank Canadian Heritage, which administers the Celebrate Canada program, Ville de Montréal for the city's support to carrying out this highly symbolic event, as well as Les productions Feux sacrés, Roy Box and SDC du Vieux-Montréal, partners in the celebration.
(Montreal, June 18 2012) The oldest, most deeply rooted and most longstanding resistance movement in the Americas invites you to its great annual event. A peaceful, joyous cultural event, drumming to the earth's heartbeat. With the words of ancient languages, millennial cultures live in the present time as Montreal once again becomes the New World's cultural metropolis.
From July 31 to August 8, 2012, First Peoples' Festival takes wing for the twenty-second time on the island, and beyond. With a wide range of events from gastronomy to cinema, from poetry readings to electro concerts, from Place des Festivals to the Kahnesatake pinewoods, providing a host of opportunities for discoveries, making friends and sharing experiences.
On the Loto-Québec stage at Place des Festivals, Florent Vollant, the world's most famous Innu, will star in a major show on August 2, while on the 3rd there will be a big electro concert, co-presented by MEG Montreal: the Ojibways of A Tribe Called Red will share the stage with two great Amazigh performers, DJ Mood and Foulane. On Sunday the 5th, young new performers will offer up a testing-ground concert co-presented with Musique nomade.
The opening film is Toomelah (Cannes, Un certain regard 2011) by the great Aboriginal filmmaker Ivan Sen. This is the first of a series of feature films from the South Pacific never screened in Montreal, followed by another Australian feature, Here I am, by Beck Cole (screenplay for Samson and Delilah, caméra d'or Cannes 2009), from New Zealand, Boy by Taika Waititi (who won an Oscar for Two Cars, One Night), from the Philippines, Busong (Cannes, Quinzaine des réalisateurs 2011) by Auraeus Solito.
From the Americas, We Still Live Here ( Anne Makepeace, USA 2011) and The Grammar of Happiness (Australia-Brazil 2011) about the rebirth of a language (Wampanoag) and the singularity of another (Pirahã). Granito hunts genocidal generals in Guatemala; a Canal D and APTN co-production. Apu ui Nepaian (Je ne veux pas mourir), a world premiere, follows Montreal homeless people in a healing process in the forest. Finally, Tropico do Saudade (France 2011) follows the footsteps of Lévi-Strauss in Brazil, as the closing film.
The awards ceremony will take place on August 5 at McCord museum, announcing prizes such as Rigoberta Menchu, Teueikan and Coup de cœur Télé-Québec.
Poetry takes the stand with Joséphine Bacon, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Rita Mestokosho and Manon Nolin, four Innu women poets in an evening titled Le Nitassinan dans mon rêve, co-produced with BAnQ and presented at the Grande Bibliothèque on August 6. Recent artworks by Christine Sioui Wawanoloath at the Canadian Guild of Crafts while two young Mohawk printmakers will be showing at Oka and Kahnesatake. The Revisionning the Americas through indigenous cinema conference returns, while a citizens' forum is creating a Trust Circle. L'Autre Montréal is featuring an Amerindian tour, the McCord Museum a discussion of Inuit art, and Le Contemporain restaurant is serving up Aboriginal menus (Pre-Colonial Mexican cuisine and New Innu Cuisine).
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Source: André Dudemaine, Terres en vues
Info: Henry Welsh, Ixion communications, (514) 495-8176
