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Kelly Boutsalis

Kelly Boutsalis is a writer and journalist, based in Toronto, formerly of Six Nations. Her words have appeared in The New York Times, Chatelaine, The Walrus, Elle Canada, Flare, The Toronto Star, and more.

May 22, 2024
Features

Revitalizing Knowledge

Singing Back the Buffalo and Wilfred Buck, directed by Tasha Hubbard and Lisa Jackson, respectively, impart stories of Indigenous knowledge.

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Features/Sundance

Alexandra Lazarowich’s Winding Path

Alexandra Lazarowich's short documentary Winding Path premieres at the Sundance Film Festival and shares Jenna Murray's path towards becoming a doctor.

Indigenous Filmmaking Now: An Overview

Surveying the state of Indigenous film production in Canadian with voices from

Drunk on Too Much Life

Michelle Melles' Drunk on Too Much Life chronicles her daughter Corinna as

Revitalizing Knowledge

by Kelly Boutsalis
May 22, 2024
Features

Singing Back the Buffalo and Wilfred Buck, directed by Tasha Hubbard and Lisa Jackson, respectively, impart stories of Indigenous knowledge.

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Alexandra Lazarowich’s Winding Path

by Kelly Boutsalis
January 25, 2024
Features/Sundance

Alexandra Lazarowich's short documentary Winding Path premieres at the Sundance Film Festival and shares Jenna Murray's path towards becoming a doctor.

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Indigenous Filmmaking Now: An Overview

by Kelly Boutsalis
February 16, 2022
Industry

Surveying the state of Indigenous film production in Canadian with voices from the field.

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Drunk on Too Much Life

by Kelly Boutsalis
November 22, 2021
Features/Festivals

Michelle Melles' Drunk on Too Much Life chronicles her daughter Corinna as she strives towards good mental health.

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TIFF 2021: Wochiigii Io: End of Peace Review

by Kelly Boutsalis
September 20, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

Heather Hatch confronts the devastating effects of the Site C dam in British Columbia's Peace River, and the consequences that First Nations communities in the region will suffer at the expense of

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Sarain Fox’s inclusive music doc Giiwewizh

by Kelly Boutsalis
June 18, 2021
Interviews

Sahtu Dene musician Jay Gilday sits on a rooftop in Yellowknife, with his acoustic guitar and a microphone aligned with the treetops. Shot on a propped-up iPhone 12, this is the opening

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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini Brings Empathy to an Opioid Crisis

by Kelly Boutsalis
May 1, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy weaves together a broad portrait of the impact of settler colonialism on Blackfoot people, through firsthand experiences of people with substance use disorder, and the

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Tanya Talaga’s spirit soars with first documentary

by Kelly Boutsalis
April 28, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

With a world premiere at Hot Docs, award-winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga has co-directed Spirit to Soar, a film debut, which follows up on the tragic stories in her award-winning non-fiction book

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Seeing is believing, right? Right? 👀 The hype is Seeing is believing, right? Right? 👀

The hype is real! @youcanseeeverything is one of the year's best films. 

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From inspiring maverick to global supervillain, #M From inspiring maverick to global supervillain, #Musk charts the alarming rise of the world's most powerful man. 🚀

Read more about Musk and how Alex Gibney distilled all that's corrupt and evil about the man into a five-alarm wakeup call. 

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@jess_earnshaw's family viewing: with JACINTA and @jess_earnshaw's family viewing: with JACINTA and now @babydoefilm, the director is developing a fine eye for complicated and nuanced family stories.

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The Marathon of Hope continues. 🏃‍♂️ #RunTerryRun The Marathon of Hope continues. 🏃‍♂️

#RunTerryRun opens across Canada today. Our critics say it's a slice of our history that never ceases to inspire. 

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“It’s not our land that’s broken. It’s our relatio “It’s not our land that’s broken. It’s our relationship to land that’s broken.”

Watch the trailer for @understorythefilm ahead of its premiere at @docnycfest! 🌱

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🚨 In case you missed it at TIFF, Barbara Kopple's 🚨 In case you missed it at TIFF, Barbara Kopple's #UnionTown is back in Toronto for one night only this week, and we have tickets to the show!

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👍 "This film sees a master of documentary working at the top of her game." - POV 

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Prime Minster Brian Mulroney appears in a fantastical image. He is pictured from the waist up wearing a flamboyant Liberace-style coat. There is a dazzling background behind him with campaign signs. He looks pale and a bit like a vampire.

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