Key Screenings

Youth Education Day
Special Event
Nov 20

Youth Education Day

The Garrick Centre - 330 Garry St. | 9:00AM

As part of our on-going commitment to the next generation of Aboriginal Filmmakers the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival will be hosting Youth Education Day, Tuesday November 20. Our keynote speaker will be Chaske Spencer of the international blockbuster Twilight series who will also premiere his latest film Shouting Secrets during our opening night gala on Wednesday, November 21. Then join us for the after-party at Juss Jazz Lounge, 240 Portage Ave. View the complete day’s events here.

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Opening Night Gala
Special Event
Nov 21

Opening Night Gala

Garrick Event Centre, 330 Garry St. | 7:00PM

November 21, 2012 The Canadian Premiere of Shouting Secrets the latest film starring Chaske Spencer of the international blockbuster series Twilight. Shouting Secrets is a moving drama that looks at the contemporary lives of Wesley (Spencer) a successful novelist and his family at the San Carlos Apache Reservation. When a planned gathering for their parent’s 40th anniversary is upended by life-changing events they are forced to deal with deeply buried family...

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Shouting Secrets
Feature Film
Nov 21

Shouting Secrets

Garrick Event Centre -Theatre 1 | 7:00 PM

“Shouting Secrets” is a dramatic yet hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a Native American family. It’s a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family. It is finally a movie, which skips the stereotypes and lets the Native Americans save themselves with no need to be saved by the white man.

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Fight
Documentary
NOV 22

Fight

Garrick Event Centre - Theatre 1 | 7:00 PM

In Fight, we meet Rene Catcheway and Melvin Delorme, two Aboriginal youths with troubled backgrounds who are at risk of not graduating from high school. Enter teacher Randy Baleski, a former boxer who believes in the power of the sport to turn young men’s lives around. As Melvin and Rene...

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More Than FryBread
Feature Film
Nov 23

More Than FryBread

Garrick Event Centre - Theatre 1 | 7:00 PM

Director Travis Holt Hamilton in attendance Twenty-two Native American frybread makers, representing all twenty-two federally recognized tribes in Arizona, convene in Flagstaff to compete for the first ever, first annual, state of Arizona Frybread Championship! The film takes a larger then...

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WAFF screens DAKOTA 38 in downtown Winnipeg to mark

Aboriginal Solidarity Day

Winnipeg, MB – July 17, 2013

The Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival will be hosting an outdoor screening of Dakota 38 on June 21, 2013 as part of activities across the country to mark Aboriginal Solidarity Day. The screening begins at 12 noon on the Jumbotron at Portage and Main in Winnipeg, MB.

This is such a great documentary and one that we are pleased to share with a larger audience. Here is a synopsis:

In the spring of 2005, Jim Miller, a Native spiritual leader and Vietnam veteran, found himself in a dream riding on horseback across the great plains of South Dakota. Just before he awoke, he arrived at a riverbank in Minnesota and saw 38 of his Dakota ancestors hanged. At the time, Jim knew nothing of the largest mass execution in United States history, ordered by Abraham Lincoln on December 26, 1862.

“When you have dreams, you know when they come from the creator… As any recovered alcoholic, I made believe that I didn’t get it. I tried to put it out of my mind, yet it’s one of those dreams that bothers you night and day.”

Four years later, embracing the message of the dream, Jim and a group of riders retrace the 330-mile route of his dream on horseback from Lower Brule, South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota to arrive at the hanging site on the anniversary of the execution. “We can’t blame the wasichus anymore. We’re doing it to ourselves. We’re selling drugs. We’re killing our own people. That’s what this ride is about, is healing.” This is the story of their journey- the blizzards they endure, the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the way, and the dark history they are beginning to wipe away.

Join us for a free screening of this powerful documentary on June 21, 2013 at 12pm.