The impacts of adoption are explored through the eyes of adoptees and their families. We meet the people who worked in Child Welfare Agencies in the 1960′s and explore why so many children were placed outside of Canada. The series is the first up-to-date history of the ‘sixties...

Canadian Premiere An intimate look at an influential modern-day Native American activist and artist recounting, in his own words, childhood, life in an Indian boarding school, 1969’s American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island for which he was one of the principal organizers, to the...

A young Aboriginal girl’s hope and dreams are re-negotiated within the walls and tunnels of the institution of education.

The Humble is a short documentary about a Santa Fe based art collective that are all Institute of American Indian Art alumni.

Bar none, the Sooner state is first in the nation at putting women behind bars. According to the Oklahoma Department of Correction, we incarcerate 132 women per 100,000 population — almost double the national average. More than 85 percent of those females are mothers, and the majority of...

Canadian Premiere Fort Forty is a documentary film about the 38 Dakota that were hanged in Mankato on December 26, 1862. Why was the Fort built in the first place? What may happen to the Fort in the future? There is currently a big dispute going on about Fort Snelling. This film explores the...

Synopsis: Captivated by the cultural discoveries around him, an Asian-American man journeys back to his homeland of Taiwan. Inspired by the vast landscapes he explores, and the gentle souls of the people he encounters, his life is changed forever. “Voices in the Clouds” is an intimate...

Manitoba Premiere Less than fifteen Nuxalk language speakers and storytellers remain in Bella Coola, British Columbia, most of them elders. An aspiring filmmaker finds herself resistant to turning the camera on her own grandmother, one of the last speakers of the Nuxalk language. Recording...