Dates set for film tour

The imagineNATIVE Northern Ontario Film and Video Tour launches Feb. 28 and runs to April 9.
The tour will kick off in Temagami and will visit 11 northern and First Nation communities throughout the province.
During March and April the tour will present NDN 4 L!F3, a collection of short films made for or by Indigenous youth. It premiered at the 2010 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.
The tour will also screen A Windigo Tale, the award-winning feature film starring Gary Farmer, Jani Lauzon and Andrea Menard. The drama film is a story centred on intergenerational trauma and healing.
The tour also includes video-making workshops for youth led by artist and filmmaker Keesic Douglas.
Select youth in Parry Sound, Thunder Bay, Timmins and Fort Albany will learn how to create and edit short videos using readily available technology such as cell phones and webcams.
The short videos will then be featured on imagineNATIVE’s website and open to public voting, sending the winner to Toronto for the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in October.
The tour will stop in Thunder Bay March 25 at the Thunder Bay Indian Friendship Centre and in Timmins April 1 at Timmins High and Vocational School. Both films will be screened in each location.
A Windigo Tale will play in Moose Factory at John R. Delaney Youth Centre April 3.
NDN 4 L!F3 will be shown in Moosonee at Northern Lights Secondary School April 4 and in Moose Factory at Delores D. Echum School April 5.
Peetabeck Academy will host both films April 8 in Fort Albany.
The imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival is an international festival held in Toronto once a year. It celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples in film, video, radio and new media.