Jon Montes

On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley's rural property...

23 de mai. de 2019

Filmmaker and educator Janine Windolph ventures from Saskatchewan to Quebec with her two teens and younger sister, tracing their familial origins t...

06 de fev. de 2024

In this layered short film, filmmaker Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother), a residential school survivor wh...

08 de mar. de 2020

An unapologetic confrontation of cultural appropriation and everything that’s wrong with hipsters in headdresses.

16 de jan. de 2017

When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in ...

20 de out. de 2019

“When you don’t know your language or your culture, you don’t know who you are,” says 69-year-old Armand McArthur, one of the last fluent Nakota sp...

01 de jun. de 2018

54 Hours is a remarkably vivid account of the 1914 tragedy in which 132 men were stranded on the ice during a severe snowstorm off the coast of New...

01 de jan. de 2014

Working in sublime self-isolation during the strange pandemic spring of 2020, avant-garde filmmaker Mike Maryniuk composes a surreal ode to rebirth...

26 de out. de 2020

This short experimental documentary about memory and music follows a young Cuban couple charting a new course for their lives on an island in the N...

10 de mai. de 2014

Mystery of the Secret Room takes viewers on a spellbinding voyage between the real and the imaginary. An inspiring portrait of family, adversity, a...

01 de jan. de 2016

Fed up with her roommate’s incessant shopping and hoarding, a girl takes matters into her own hands in this comical take on vlogging and the art of...

01 de jan. de 2014