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"Connecting and Contending through the Creative Process" Panel: Revisioning the Americas through Indigenous Cinema

Date

Tuesday August 16, 2022
9:00 am - 11:00 am

Location

Zoom
Event Category
All Queen's students
Queen's faculty & staff

Queen's Students, 

We invite you to join us for a Zoom/live panel featuring Indigenous women filmmakers from around the globe: “Connecting and Contending through the Creative Process” with Kim O’Bomsawin (Abenaki filmmaker), Ángeles Cruz (Mixteca filmmaker), and Briar Grace-Smith (Māori filmmaker) taking place Tuesday, August 16th, 2022, at 9 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada). 

This panel is featured in the Revisioning the Americas through Indigenous Cinema international conference—part of the Montreal First Peoples Festival—which is bringing Indigenous filmmakers and academics from around the world together for groundbreaking conversations. The panel will be occurring simultaneously in-person and on Zoom, with Spanish-English translation to ensure accessibility for all presenters and attendees/viewers. 

Please register in advance. https://queensu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvdOmrrzwpHdBI6E9mULCYq4MvHhpNQcSc   

Shortly after registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

Info: darren.zanussi@queensu.ca 

This 8th Revisioning the Americas through Indigenous Cinema International Conference, taking place in Kahnawàke and Montréal on August 15-16, 2022, is organized out of Queen’s University https://www.queensu.ca/french/ (Dr. Isabelle St-Amand), in partnership with Terres en vues (Dr. André Dudemaine) and in collaboration with the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (Marion Konwanénhon Delaronde). International collaborators are Deborah Walker-Morrison (NZ) and Natalia Möller Gonzále (Chile). Guests speakers include Alanis Obomsawin, Sterlin Harjo, Roxanne Rimstead, Leo Koziol, Roxann Whitebean. 

The 2022 Conference gratefully receives the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC); of Queen’s University’s Vice-Dean’s Program Fund, Office of Equity, Diversity, Indigeneity, and Inclusion (EDII), Department of French Studies, and Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; as well as of Université du Québec à Montréal’s Group of studies and research in international and intercultural communication (GERACII). 

Conference program at: https://www.queensu.ca/french/regards-autochtones-sur-les-ameriques  

Festival program:  https://presenceautochtone.ca