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A film crew sets up a shot on set. They are preparing lighting and viewed in silhouette.

Two Documentaries Among Indigenous Projects Receiving Funding via Telefilm Canada

by Pat Mullen
July 31, 2025
Industry/News

Documentaries by Jules Koostachin and Kim O'Bomsawin & Olivia Ilkey are among five Indigenous projects tapped for funding from Telefilm Canada.

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Now Streaming: Ninan Auassat Sees Life Through Young Eyes

by POV Staff
April 1, 2025
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Ninan Auassat: We, the Children is now streaming for free from the National Film Board of Canada and offers refreshing perspectives from Indigenous youths.

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Ninan Auassat: We, the Children Review – A Refreshingly Humanist Portrait

by Pat Mullen
November 30, 2024
Reviews/RIDM

Kim O'Bomsawin lets a chorus of Indigenous youths share their experiences in their own words in NFB doc Ninan Auassat: We, the Children.

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Ninan Aussat: We, the Children Leads VIFF Winners

by Pat Mullen
October 3, 2024
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Kim O'Bomsawin's Ninan Aussat: We, the Children wins Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival awards.

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Three Documentaries Receive Funding Via Telefilm Canada’s Indigenous Stream

by Pat Mullen
July 4, 2024
Industry

Feature documentaries Indigéna, Inuguinq, and Land of No Pain receive funding via Telefilm Canada's Indigenous Stream.

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Telling Our Story Review: Reclaiming History in Their Own Words

by Courtney Small
September 16, 2023
Reviews/TIFF

Telling Our Story, directed by Kim O'Bomsawin, offers an overview of Indigenous history told through the diversity of First Nations experiences.

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Telefilm Canada Announces Support for Two Indigenous Documentaries

by Pat Mullen
June 12, 2023
Industry

New documentaries by Kim O'Bomsawin and Eliza Knockwood are among six films to receive support through Telefilm Canada's Indigenous Streams.

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National Canadian Film Day Documentary Highlights

by Pat Mullen
April 20, 2022
Industry

National Canadian Film Day highlights for documentary screenings, conversations, at home viewings, and more to celebrate Canadian content.

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Call Me Human Review: Aged Wisdom

by Madeline Lines
December 10, 2020
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In Kim O'bomsawin's Call Me Human, Innu artist Joséphine Bacon says, "“I don’t think we needed the word ‘poetry’ or ‘poem’ in our language, because we were poets, simply by living in

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