First Nations Film Festival at UCFV

Posted by Tad McIlwraith on April 21st, 2006 filed in First Nations, Head Notes, Teaching

The University College of the Fraser Valley is hosting “A Festival of First Nations films from the Pacific Northwest“ this weekend, April 21-23, in Chilliwack and Abbotsford. With apologies for the late notice, the festival looks great. There is a lineup of academic and aboriginal panelists and an opportunity to watch some of the old and new classic film depictions of Northwest Coast cultures. Films include:

In the Land of the War Canoes (Curtis, 1914)

Potlatch, A Strict Law Bids Us Dance (Wheeler; Umista Cultural Society, 1975)

Time Immemorial (Brody, 1991)

Blockade (Wilde, 1993)

Totem: The Return of the G’psgolox Pole (Cardinal, 2003)

The website provides synopses of these and other films and is a nice resource itself.

(Thanks, Jamie.)

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One Response to “First Nations Film Festival at UCFV”

  1. Jay River Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 6:43 pm

    For anyone interrested, there is a work of Edward Curtis in motion picture published on DVD. Its called, The Indian Picture Opera, and uses words and photos from Curtis to paint a picture of the Vanishing Race. It can be found on Amazon.

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