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Big congrats to Frances Koncan (NSI New Voices), whose recent Winnipeg Fringe Festival play zahgidiwin/love won the Harry S. Rintoul award for best Manitoba play.

zahgidiwin/love is a post-colonial fable about gender politics and cultural genocide. Through a kaleidoscope of theatrical styles, the play explores the ramifications of trauma across generations and searches for what a decolonized nation and decolonized theatre might look like.

In a new interview for VICE Canada, Amanda Kindzierski (NSI New Voices) chats with Winnipeg graphic artist Autumn Crossman-Serb, whose illustrations and graphic design work aim to portray women of colour as protagonists and stars of their own stories.

Amanda and Autumn talked monsters, media and doing it yourself. Watch the interview.

Northern Banner Releasing has acquired the Canadian distribution rights to psychological thriller The Bequest from director Jeff Kopas (NSI Features First). Northern Banner will release the film theatrically in Canada in early 2017.

The Bequest follows Jenibel Heath (played by Shenae Grimes) and her return to her family’s secluded island lodge to help her siblings care for their dying father 10 years after the mysterious suicide of her mother. Set to inherit the bulk of the family’s estate, Jenibel fears that her siblings do not have her best intentions at heart and she struggles to keep her sanity after she becomes trapped on the island.

Jeff also serves as co-writer and co-producer on the film.

Short documentary Not a Stranger, directed by Kate Green (NSI Totally Television, NSI Lifestyle & Reality Series Producer), screens at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival on August 13 as part of the Coast is Queer program.

Not A Stranger is the story of one man’s pursuit of real world human connection for 365 days, while asking the question: can talking to strangers make you happy?