Today is the International Animation Day and the National Film Board (NFB) has released three new Indigenous created short animations. The NFB has teamed up with imagineNATIVE Film and associate producers Amanda Strong and Amanda Roy to help address underrepresentation of Indigenous creators in film animation.
Kassia Ward of the Enoch Cree Nation created an animation exploring the concept of semi-private spaces.
Meky Ottawa from the Atikamewk in Quebec gives us The Fake Calendar. An animation looking into how people come up with creative ways to avoid social functions.
Christopher Gilbert Grant is a young Mi’kmaq artist from the Pabineau First Nation who is living with schizoaffective disorder. He presented a piece that shows there is beauty in the brains of those who are at war with themselves.
You can view all the premiering animations on the NFB website.
