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Darlene Naponse’s Falls Around Her wins imagineNATIVE audience choice award

Posted: 26 Oct 2018 02:36 PM PDT

Falls Around Her from writer/director Darlene Naponse (NSI Features First) has been named the Air Canada Audience Choice Award winner at this year’s imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. The award comes with a $1,000 cash prize.

Falls Around Her tells the story of a famous singer (Tantoo Cardinal, pictured) who senses someone is watching her when she returns to her reserve to reconnect with her community.

The film opened the festival earlier this month.

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Darcy Waite, Roger Boyer accepted to Whistler’s Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship program

Posted: 26 Oct 2018 02:10 PM PDT

Congratulations to Darcy Waite and Roger Boyer (both CBC New Indigenous Voices, NSI IndigiDocs) on their acceptance to Whistler Film Festival’s Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship 2018 program.

The four-day creative and business immersion program focuses on strengthening and advancing scripted projects. The program takes place in conjunction with the Whistler Film Festival + Content Summit from November 28 to December 2.

Formerly known as the Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship, the newly named Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship (IFF) aims to enhance the project development for emerging Indigenous Canadian content creators with short film content, webisode projects or pilots for episodics still in the script stage.

Darcy’s project Zombies Don’t Eat Dumb People and Roger’s project The Fire will receive script feedback, and they’ll get guidance on development opportunities from established content creators, producers and industry professionals.

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