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Congratulations to the NSI grads with films screening at this year’s American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco.

• NSI IndigiDocs short From Up North by director Trudy Stewart and producer Janine Windolph

• Call Me Olly featuring CBC New Indigenous Voices grad Olly King

• Mikinakay: Trail of the Turtle by director Erica Daniels (CBC New Indigenous Voices)

• Road of Iniquity by director Mark Ennis (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program)

• NSI Features First-developed The Sun At Midnight by director Kirsten Carthew

• She Is Water by director Darlene Naponse (NSI Features First)

• Chainsaw featuring music from Leonard Sumner (CBC New Indigenous Voices)

• Juliana & The Medicine Fish by director Jeremy Torrie (NSI Aboriginal Cultural Trade Initiative, Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program)

• Cowboy Smithx (NSI IndigiDocs) is giving a REDx Talk as part of the festival’s speaker series

The fest runs November 3 to 11.

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Before Anything You Say from director Shelagh Carter (NSI Drama Prize) screens this fall at the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema in Milan (Nov. 25 – Dec. 2) and LA Femme Film Festival (Oct. 19 – 22) in LA.

In the film a married couple struggle to maintain their love and marriage even as a life-altering decision threatens to tear them apart.

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Little Hard Knox, a new documentary from Roxann Whitebean (NSI IndigiDocs), is now available online as part of CBC’s short docs programming.

Little Hard Knox follows 10-year-old Mohawk boxer Shatekaienthokwen VanDommelen from the community of Kahnawake in Quebec.

Roxann also spoke with CBC about why she chose to make a documentary about Shatekaienthokwen.

Watch now on CBC.

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Great Great Great, written and directed by Adam Garnet Jones (Corus Diverse TV Director, NSI Storytellers, Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program), screens tonight only in various Canadian cities and opens at Carlton Cinema in Toronto on Friday, October 6.

Landmark Theatres will screen the film in the following cities on Wednesday, October 4: Edmonton, Calgary, New Westminster, Courtenay, Waterloo, Ottawa, Whitby, Cranbrook, Campbell River, Hamilton, Penticton, Nanaimo and Winnipeg. See your local listings for details.

The film, which Adam co-wrote with Sarah Kolasky, follows a young woman in a long-term relationship who finds herself searching for something better.

Great Great Great ​is a deeply relatable portrait of a woman who makes us squirm with discomfort while asking us to love some of the most unlovable parts of ourselves.

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