Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is featuring powerful and thought-provoking free programming on nfb.ca throughout the month of September to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
In total, nfb.ca now offers more than 6,500 online films and a collection of more than 100 interactive works.
- Online premiere
Starting September 30 | National Day for Truth and Reconciliation | WaaPaKe (Tomorrow)
Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/waapake
Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin’s deeply personal WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) unravels the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and power.
This acclaimed film will be featured on the Residential Schools channel on nfb.ca.
Honours to date for WaaPaKe include the Best BC Film Award at VIFF and the APTN Award at the Montreal First Peoples Film Festival.
- NFB channels and a Curator’s Perspective
Starting September 1 | Three Indigenous channels and a focus on Duke Redbird
September kicks off with a special spotlight on Indigenous cinema.
With three Indigenous cinema channels:
Plus, a return of the blogpost “Duke Redbird: A Look Back at the Film Career of an Indigenous Living Legend,” profiling the visionary poet, designer and broadcaster, originally from the Saugeen Ojibway First Nation in Ontario.