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Announcing the winner of our 50/50 draw from the 2025 imagineNATIVE Drag Bingo fundraising event! If you had ticket 520423, please reach out to jenna@imagineNATIVE.org for next steps to claim your prize.

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June 2025 Recap 💫 June was a busy month of music and memories – from #TillsonburgTurtlefest, to #imagineNATIVE Film Festival, and #HughsRoom in #Toronto. We’re grateful to everyone who came out to see Adrian perform! #TillsonburgTurtlefest #ImagineNative #HughsRoom #Toronto #Ontario #Concerts

In the Fire of War Review: History Comes Alive In the Fire of War (Ka Whawhai Tonu) captures the struggle for Maori identity by forming an intimate link to the event it adapts.

"It is a film made by Maori for Maori, and it shows the importance of their enduring culture."

Paku Fernandez is the breakout star of IN THE FIRE OF WAR (KA WHAWHAI TONU), which was screened at imagineNATIVE!

Read Wesley's review!

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Little Deer - Film Review - Eye For Film Two indigenous girls run away from a Canadian residential school at Christmastime.

Two indigenous girls run away from a Canadian residential school at Christmastime in short film Little Deer (aka Ohskennón: ten Owí: ra) www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/littl... #ImagineNative #filmsky 🎬

The Haka Party Incident - Film Review - Eye For Film The last New Zealand War happened in 1979. It lasted three minutes. This documentary tells the story.

A three minute clash which changed race relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa forever is remembered in documentary The Haka Party Incident www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-h... #filmsky #ImagineNative 🎬

A still from the film We Were Dangerous. Two Māori girls and a white girl, in identical dark blue school uniforms, sit among boxes of groceries on a rocky shore, with classmates dimly visible behind them. The middle one is eating peanut butter from a jar.

"We were about a month out from shooting the film and America axed Roe vs. Wade, and I just remember thinking ‘Wow, this is still so relevant and so prevalent everywhere, globally.’" - Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu on We Were Dangerous www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2025... #ImagineNative #Filmsky 🎬

Singing Back The Buffalo - Film Review - Eye For Film Indigenous visionaries, scientists and communities are rematriating the buffalo to the heart of the North American plains they once defined, signaling a turning point for Indigenous nations, the ecosy...

The story of indigenous nations coming together to help restore buffalo to their traditional North American ranges is told in www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/singi... #ImagineNative #filmsky 🎬

We Were Dangerous - Film Review - Eye For Film Three friends attend an institution for delinquent girls on an isolated island In 1950s New Zealand. The trio rail against the system, finding strength in their bond. This is challenged when the schoo...

Three girls in a reform school in 1950s New Zealand/Aotearoa find strength in their friendship in We Were Dangerous www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/we-we... #ImagineNative #filmsky 🎬

#skoden Film Review: How Memes Evolve #skoden tells a modern story about a topic which has persisted for hundreds of years in a humorous but poignant way.

This touching portrait of a life entertains and informs, showing how a simple catchphrase can become a mark of identity. 

Read Wesley review of Damien Eagle Bear's #skoden, which is being screened now #imagineNATIVE!

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Singing Back the Buffalo: Film Review Singing Back the Buffalo shows the push for reclamation of Native identity and highlights the responsibility we share with our environment.

Tasha Hubbard's SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO shows the push for reclamation of Native identity and highlights the responsibility we all share with our environment!

Read Wesley's review and watch the documentary at #imagineNATIVE! 🤩

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Just finished a panel aboiut #indigenous podcasting at #ImagineNative with January Rogers and I got to meet Kairyn Potts from the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation and Scott Wabano Cree - They are the hosts of  The Real Rank Podcast. we were bought togwther by the fabulous Falen Johnson of CBC!

Where We Stand group photo.

Claim your FREE ticket to the One Land, Two Hearts: WhereWeStand premiere at #imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival happening this Sunday, June 8, 2025 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox - Cinema 3!
Secure your spot: lnkd.in/gbmBrUb8

Adrian is honoured to be part of this year’s #imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto! He’ll perform at the closing night Awards Presentation on June 8 at TIFF Lightbox, alongside musicians #LaceyHill & #DerekMiller. TICKETS: imaginenative.org/events/award...

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Look out #imagineNative Festival! We are headed your way!

One Land, Two Hearts: WhereWeStand | imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

Join us at #imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival for the Toronto premiere of One Land, Two Hearts: WhereWeStand. June 8, 2025, 10 AM–12 PM EDT. TIFF Lightbox - Cinema 3.

FREE registration: imaginenative.org/events/onela...

Film at imagineNATIVE discusses range of masculinity of Siksika Nation men The documentary feature Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man by writer/director Sinakson Trevor Solway will screen at imagineNATIVE in Toronto, the largest Indigenous film and media arts festival in the wo...

“… because there's more than one way to be a man.”

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Adrian is honoured to celebrate Indigenous filmmakers & creatives at this year’s #imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival! Catch him performing at the Awards Presentation on June 8 at @tiffnet.bsky.social alongside #LaceyHill & #DerekMiller. 🎥💙 INFO: imaginenative.org/festival/

Celebrate 25 years of the world’s largest Indigenous film festival this June in Toronto - NOW Toronto Celebrate Indigenous storytelling at the 25th edition of the world’s largest Indigenous film and media arts festival next month in Toronto.

Celebrate filmmaking and storytelling at the 25th edition of the world’s largest Indigenous film and media arts festival next month in Toronto. #imagineNATIVE

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I'm Just Here for the Riot Review: When the Hockey Hosers Get Mad - POV Magazine I'm Just Here for the Riot review: documentary explores the elements of fandom that led Vancouver Canuck fans to take to the streets in 2011.

On today at #imagineNATIVE, I'M JUST HERE FOR THE RIOT asks what turned Vancouverites into rioters over a hockey game and what happened when the online mob came for them. povmagazine.com/im-just-here...

I keep getting surveys asking me about my Back-to-School shopping habits. Oh honey, I do Festival season shopping! #TIFFVolunteers #TIFF18 #imagineNATIVE