Jules Arita Koostachin’s award-winning WaaPaKe premiers online

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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 …

Legacy of trailblazing NFB filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin celebrated 

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Montreal – Over a legendary career spanning five decades, Abenaki filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin has chronicled the hopes and struggles of Indigenous Peoples in their historic fight for their rights. She’s been an inspiration for generations of Indigenous creators and a trailblazer in women’s cinema since she began to make films at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1967—receiving virtually every major Canadian …