Vancity Theatre1181 Seymour St.,Vancouver BC V6B 2E8

March 5th – 7th, 2017

An Acknowledgement of Cinematic Territory

Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017 is a complicated celebration for Indigenous peoples. One hundred and fifty years is a limited period, and for Indigenous peoples this actually reflects the occupation of Indigenous territories, and the impacts since. We deeply believe this is timely for our organization and an important moment within the national context. As REEL CANADA approaches its own celebration, National Canadian Film Day 150, we reflect on this history and ask ourselves whose territory we are in. Beyond 150 Years: An Acknowledgement of Cinematic Territory is a premiere event to present, with utmost respect, some of the Indigenous filmmakers from within the REEL CANADA catalogue. The REEL CANADA programme is limited to films appropriate for high school audiences, but the catalogue does include a number of essential works created through the Indigenous lens.

The vision of this event is to recognize the importance of the First Peoples of this land by celebrating their cinematic stories. Legendary filmmakers like Zacharias Kunuk and Alanis Obomsawin have had tremendous impact, both nationally and internationally, while filmmakers like Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Amanda Strong and Lisa Jackson represent the next generation. Beyond 150 Years is one small way that we as an organization can contribute to the process of reconciliation. Beyond 150 Years presents work from the past, the present, and what we may expect in the future. The three-day event includes free public film screenings, artist talks, new media, virtual reality and a high school screening.

We invite you to join us in saluting the achievements, resilience, impact and continued contributions of Indigenous filmmakers of Canada.

An Acknowledgement of Cinematic Territory

REEL CANADA recognizes that its employees are guests of the Coast Salish peoples and our activities take place on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples. We would like to express our gratitude to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səlí̓lwəta/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

REEL CANADA and the Beyond 150 Years team would also like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to Bob Baker and Spakwus Slolem (Eagle Song Dancers) for welcoming us to these traditional territories.

We would like to thank the following people and organizations for their encouragement, services, guidance and advice:

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Bob Baker, Bigheart Bannock Catering, J Bradford, Tom Charity, Cecelia Cheung, Cedar House Catering, Carolyn Combs, Gregory Coyes, Kathy Evans, First Peoples Cultural Foundation, Full Circle/Talking Stick Festival, Larry Grant, Gordon Grant, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Ronnie Dean Harris, Indigenous Independent Digital Filmmaking at Capilano College, Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance, Lisa Jackson, Ross Johnstone, Margo Kane, Élise Labbé, Doreen Manuel, Alanis Obomsawin, Jason Ryle, Spakwus Slolem (Eagle Song Dancers), Amanda Strong, Loretta Todd, Michelle Van Beusekom, Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF), Vancity Theatre staff & volunteers, Jesse Wente, Cathi Charles Wherry, Curtis Woloschuk and T’uy’t-tanat-Cease Wyss.

Beyond 150 Years logo artwork: Ronnie Dean Harris

REEL CANADA’s Beyond 150 Years Team:Jack Blum, Executive DirectorSharon Corder, Artistic DirectorJenna Hijazi, Festivals ManagerDenise Bolduc, Lead Event ProducerMelissa O’Neil, Lead Event CoordinatorStephanie Turenko, Event and Print Materials CoordinatorMeg MacKay, Event CoordinatorMark Meeks, Technical DirectorSue Biely, BC Regional Manager, National Canadian Film Day 150Brie Koniczek, ShowcallerChantal Speirs, Graphic DesignerLauren Bell, Technical Coordinator, Graphics AssistantLéa Rondot, Production and Administrative Intern

DETAILS & INFORMATIONGET YOUR TICKETSAll events are FREE of charge, but please arrive early to ensure you get a seat.

Online: Tickets can be reserved by visiting canadianfilmday.ca/beyond150years

In Person: The Vancity Theatre box office opens one hour before the day’s first screening.

Rush Tickets: If a screening becomes sold out, a limited number of rush tickets may become available 15 minutes before the start of the screening. A rush line will form as directed by venue staff.

Seating: General seating; reserved seating for attending elders and seniors.

VENUE LOCATIONAll events are taking place at Vancity Theatre1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8

Parking: Metered street parking. Evening loading zone outside entrance.

ACCESSIBILITYVenue Entrance: Street levelWheelchair: 2-4 theatre spacesWashrooms: Fully accessibleHearing Assistance: Hearing assistance headphones are available on request

QUESTIONS?For Beyond 150 Years events & programming: 1-855-733-5709 x200 contactus@reelcanada.ca

For Beyond 150 Years media inquiries: 1-416-557-2139 cara@reelcanada.ca

For venue information or help with online ticketing: 604-685-0260 info@viff.org

Our Films in Our Schools: For over 11 years, we have helped teachers and students across Canada organize over one thousand screenings of Canadian film, providing educational resources to facilitate classroom integration.

Welcome to Canada: We introduce new Canadians to Canadian film and culture through festival events designed specifically for English-language learners of all ages.

National Canadian Film Day (NCFD): An annual one-day event where Canadians from coast to coast to coast get together to watch a great Canadian film — across all major platforms, online, and in theatres. Save the date: April 19, 2017!

Each of these initiatives incorporates the wealth of incredible work created by Indigenous filmmakers.

WHY WE DO ITWe believe — and our audiences confirm — that seeing oneself on film can be a profound and transformative experience, one that has the power to help bring us together as a country. Canadian film depicts the unique experience of Canadians and give us a way to think about and understand the qualities and values that define us.

Who We AreREEL CANADA is a charitable organization whose mission is to introduce new audiences to the power and diversity of Canadian film. Our travelling film festival has held nearly 1,200 screenings and reached more than 600,000 students — and it just keeps growing.

Since its inception in 2005, REEL CANADA has recognized the importance of cinematic stories told by Indigenous peoples, and includes these as a core piece of all our programmes:

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WELCOME RECEPTIONEvent by invitation only

Welcome by Bob Baker & Spakwus Slolem (Eagle Song Dancers)Remarks by Ronnie Dean Harris, official Beyond 150 Years HostWuulhu (2015) multimedia work by Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Visual artworks by Bracken Hanuse Corlett will be on display in the atrium throughout the festival: Listening. On. Waking Terrain.; Sasquatch Spreads Love.

BOB BAKER & SPAKWUS SLOLEM (Eagle Song Dancers)Bob Baker, Cultural Advisor, Performer, (Squamish Ancestral name S7aplek, Hawaiian name Lanakila) is co-founder and spokesperson for Spakwus Slolem dance group of the Squamish Nation. Spakwus Slolem is pleased and honoured to present songs and dances of yesterday, as well as today, and feel very honoured to represent their People in a good way, as their Ancestors had intended.

RONNIE DEAN HARRISRonnie Dean Harris, aka Ostwelve, is a Stō:lo/St’át’imc/Lil’wat/N’laka’pamux multimedia artist. He is an internationally recognized hip-hop performer and composer, and acted on the TV series Moccasin Flats. Harris also served as director, programmer and producer for the Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival and is currently the Project Director and Lead Facilitator for the in-school workshop “Reframing Relations”.

BRACKEN HANUSE CORLETTBracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. His work combines traditional Indigenous Coast iconography and history with new media and concepts of existing cyclical space. In 2014, he received the BC Creative Achievement Award for Aboriginal Art.

Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 — Atrium LoungeEvent by invitation only

Sunday, March 5, 2017, 7:00 pm

High School Screening: Angry Inuk Private screening for high school students followed by a Q & A with director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Angry Inuk(2016) Director/Writer: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. 85 min. PG

The seal hunt is not exactly a laughing matter, but humour and technical savvy go a long way to debunk certain claims. Wryly tackling both misinformation and aggressive appeals to emotion, Inuk filmmaker Arnaquq-Baril equips herself and her community with the powers of social media — and yes, #sealfies — to reframe a controversial topic as a cultural issue in this 2016 Audience Award-winning Hot Docs hit.

ALETHEA ARNAQUQ-BARILAlethea Arnaquq-Baril is an award-winning short and documentary film producer and director. Her film Angry Inuk (2016) won the 2016 Audience Award at Hot Docs, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, and at TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival.

Additional sponsors of REEL CANADA’s Our Films in Our Schools programme:

Highway of Tears Virtual Reality Documentary Highway of Tears will be screening throughout the festival, from 10:30 am to 9:00 pm each day. Please sign up on-site to participate in this 4-minute virtual reality experience.

Highway of Tears(2016) Director/Writer: Lisa Jackson. 4 min.

Highway of Tears is a virtual reality documentary looking into the missing and murdered Indigenous women along an infamous stretch of highway in northern British Columbia. The film transports viewers to the home of one of the victims, whose family has been searching for answers for over 20 years, and provides a visceral experience of the landscape and the personal tragedies that haunt it and that have affected so many Indigenous people in Canada. This project was made for CBC Radio’s The Current.

LISA JACKSONAnishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson rose to prominence with her short film Savage (2009), which won a Genie award for Best Short Film. Her cross-genre work includes current affairs, animation, performance art film and a musical.

Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 — Atrium LoungePrivate event for high school students Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 — 2nd floor Cost: Free

Monday, March 6, 2017 – 9:00 am Monday, March 6 & Tuesday, March 7 10:30 am – 9:00 pm every day

Flipping the Script: Making Films to Make ChangeArtist Talk with Lisa JacksonJoin us for a talk with filmmaker Lisa Jackson as we discuss her diverse body of work, including her recent foray into new technologies with her virtual reality documentary Highway of Tears, which is screening throughout the festival (see previous page).

The talk will begin with screenings of Jackson’s short films Savage and Snare.

Moderated by Doreen Manuel

Savage (2009) Director/Writer: Lisa Jackson. 6 min. A residential school musical. On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl arrives at her new home, where she undergoes a transformation that will turn her mother’s gentle voice into a howl of anger and pain.

Snare (2013) Director/Writer: Lisa Jackson. 4 min. Spare and visually arresting, with a haunting soundtrack, Snare is a performance-based piece that captures the brutality of violence against Indigenous women, as well as the possibility of healing and grace.

LISA JACKSONAnishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson rose to prominence with her short film Savage (2009), which won a Genie award for Best Short Film. Her cross-genre work includes current affairs, animation, performance art film and a musical.

DOREEN MANUELDoreen Manuel (Secwepemc/Ktunuxa First Nations) has a master’s degree in Film Production from UBC. She is an award-winning filmmaker, owner of Running Wolf Productions and Program Coordinator of the Indigenous Independent Digital Filmmaking program at Capilano University.

Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 Cost: FreeMonday, March 6, 2017 – 2:00 pm

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Angry Inuk Free screening followed by a Q & A with director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Angry Inuk(2016) Director/Writer: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. 85 min. PG

The seal hunt is not exactly a laughing matter, but humour and technical savvy go a long way to debunk certain claims. Wryly tackling both misinformation and aggressive appeals to emotion, Inuk filmmaker Arnaquq-Baril equips herself and her community with the powers of social media — and yes, #sealfies — to reframe a controversial topic as a cultural issue in this 2016 Audience Award–winning Hot Docs hit.

“Angry Inuk delivers important information about an issue we tend to think we know everything about, and delivers a powerful emotional punch.”— Susan G. Cole, NOW magazine

ALETHEA ARNAQUQ-BARILAlethea Arnaquq-Baril is an award-winning short and documentary film producer and director. Her film Angry Inuk (2016) won the 2016 Audience Award at Hot Docs, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, and at TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival.

Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 Cost: FreeMonday, March 6, 2017 – 7:00 pm

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance & Mia’Free screening for post-secondary students and the general public followed by a Q & A with directors Alanis Obomsawin and Amanda Strong

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance(1993) Director/Writer: Alanis Obomsawin. 119 min. PG

In July of 1990, the Oka Crisis was a critical moment in contemporary Canadian history and a turning point for Indigenous affairs. That summer, as the small Quebec community was thrust into the international spotlight, master filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 nail-biting days filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks of Kanehsatake, Quebec, the Quebec police and the Canadian army.

This powerful documentary takes you right to the heart of the action, painting a sensitive and deeply affecting portrait of the people behind the barricades.

Winner of the 1993 Toronto International Film Festival’s Best Canadian Feature Film prize.

Mia’ (2015) Directors: Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett. 8 min.

A young Indigenous street artist struggles to return home after being transformed into a salmon.

See opposite page for director biographies

Past, Present & Future: In Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin & Amanda StrongIn 2016, celebrated documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin won the Clyde Gilmour Technicolour Award, presented by the Toronto Film Critics Association. This award allowed her to select a young filmmaker to receive $50,000 in post-production services. Without hesitation, Ms. Obomsawin chose stop-motion animator and Vancouver resident Amanda Strong.

Join us to witness a conversation between these two fascinating filmmakers as they exchange stories of their careers, their processes, their craft and the intersection of their work documenting different facets of life and culture.

Moderated by T’uy’t-tanat-Cease Wyss

Talk will include screenings of Four Faces of the Moon (2016), directed by Amanda Strong, and a film montage of works by Alanis Obomsawin.

ALANIS OBOMSAWINLegendary Abenaki filmmaker, folk singer and educational activist Alanis Obomsawin has made an illustrious career documenting the plights of First Nations people, from her first short film Christmas at Moose Factory (1971) to her latest feature, We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice (2016). Her expansive body of work now stands at 50 features and shorts, and she is the recipient of many distinguished awards and honours for her lifetime of work.

AMANDA STRONGAward-winning Michif filmmaker, media artist and stop-motion director Amanda Strong resides in the unceded Coast Salish territory (Vancouver). Amanda’s work explores ideas of blood memory and Indigenous ideology, challenging conventional structures of storytelling in cinema. She is currently developing two shorts, Wheetago War and Biidaaban (The Dawn).

T’UY’T-TANAT-CEASE WYSSCoast Salish media artist and ceremonial activist T’uy’t-tanat-Cease Wyss has been producing independent media art works since the early 1990s. Her cultural backgrounds have greatly influenced her short films, installation, performance art and more.

Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 Cost: Free Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 Cost: FreeTuesday, March 7, 2017 – 9:00 am Tuesday, March 7, 2017 – 1:00 pm

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance Mia’

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner & Guest LectureFree film screening preceded by lecture Cinematic Impact: Works by Zacharias Kunuk. In his talk, filmmaker Gregory Coyes will discuss the cultural and cinematic impact of Zacharias Kunuk’s work.

Lecture will begin at 6:00 pm. There will be a 30-minute break between the lecture and screening. Light snacks will be provided by Bigheart Bannock Catering.

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner(2000) Director/Producer: Zacharias Kunuk. 161 min. 14A.

Based on an ancient Inuit legend, Atanarjuat is an epic tale of love, betrayal and revenge. When Atanarjuat is forced to battle the jealous Oki for Atuat’s hand, the events that follow determine not only his fate, but that of his people. Atanarjuat won 20 awards, including eight Genies and the Caméra d’Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Film will be preceded by Slow Media: KUUK – The River at Iqaluit (2015) Director: Gregory Coyes

ZACHARIAS KUNUK An Officer of the Order of Canada, Kunuk is an Inuk director and producer. In 2015, Atanarjuat was selected as the number one Canadian film of all time, according to TIFF’s Canada’s All-Time Top Ten List. His latest film Maliglutit (Searchers) premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

GREGORY COYESGregory Coyes is an awarding-winning Métis writer, filmmaker, transmedia producer and teacher. He is the founder of the Slow Media Community, which promotes disruptive and healthy “real time” content for the web. Coyes also serves on the board of the Alliance of Aboriginal Media Professionals (AAMP).

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