The Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF), brings the best of new indigenous film and video, from across Canada and around the world. Now in its 12th year, the festival is showcasing great talent and great stories.
“The Sapphires“, the Australian film that garnered a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes in May 2012, is one of the features. It’s loosely based on the true story of a group of Australian-Aboriginal women who became a popular girl-group in the 1960’s, some of them singing for the troops in Viet Nam.
Tonight the Canadian Aboriginal Music Video Showcase will be the big draw, and tomorrow, a screening of Canadian documentary filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin’s latest film Hi-Ho Mistahey! It chronicles Shannen’s dream, the young Cree teenager in Ontario’s Attawapiskat First Nation who started a movement demanding a safe and equipped school for her community. Attawapiskat came to national attention last Christmas when Chief Theresa Spence began a hunger strike demanding the Canadian government begin to deal with the issues of desperation in many of Canada’s First Nations communities.
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