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Congratulations to director Alexandra Lazarowich (pictured above, middle) and producer Cowboy Smithx whose NSI IndigiDocs film Cree Code Talker took home the the Gil Cardinal Documentary Award at the Dreamspeaker Film Festival yesterday in Edmonton.

The Cree Code Talker team acknowledged the award on Facebook: “Thank you to the festival, the festival executives, the staff, to Gil Cardinal and his family, and to all the volunteers and thank you to the Tomkins family for giving us the responsibility to tell Charles’ story, his spirit lives on!”

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Michelle Latimer (NSI Drama Prize) is profiled in Playback as part of their Indigenous Voices Rising series. Eagle Vision and Rezolution Pictures have also been featured.

Michelle talked about her most high-profile project to date, Viceland series Rise, and upcoming films The Inconvenient Indian and Forgotten: The Freedom Project.

As she told Playback: “Opportunities are just starting to open up for our community to be able to tell our own stories from the inside out.

“I think that [the success of projects like Rise] shows there is an appetite that is wider, that it’s not niche, that a good story is a good story and to be able to tell stories from our point of view, on our terms, is really important.”

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Congratulations to Tracey Deer (NSI Storytellers, Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program) who’s been appointed to the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (ACCT) board of directors.

Beginning her career in documentary, Tracey teamed up with Rezolution Pictures for feature documentaries One More River: The Deal that Split the Cree, Mohawk Girls and Club Native, as well as the documentary series Working it Out Together, seasons I and II.

This collaboration has continued into fiction television with the critically acclaimed dramedy series Mohawk Girls, which she co-created, directs and executive produces with creative partner Cynthia Knight (NSI Drama Prize).

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Current NSI Totally Television participant Jon Mann is featured on the latest TV, eh? podcast in an interview with Greg David.

Wolfville, his project with producer Rob Ramsay, was selected for NSI Totally Television and announced in August.

NSI Totally Television boot camp kicks off later this month in Toronto.

Listen to the podcast.

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Congratulations to the NSI grads with films screening at this weekend’s Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City:

• STORYHIVE short film Akashi あかし from writer/director Mayumi Yoshida

• Brown Girl Begins from producer Floyd Kane (NSI Totally Television)

Catch both films this Saturday, September 23 at AMC Empire Theatre in New York.

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