Team
Dedicated. Passionate. Creative.
At Ācimowin Film Festival we are dedicated to uplifting Indigenous visual storytellers in film + media on the prairies. Our team is passionate about the work we do at the festival including our after school film programs for Indigenous youth. Each person is a creative artist & every member has a unique approach that empowers the collective.
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Our Mission
This festival is dedicated to elevating Indigenous narratives, fostering Indigenous language revitalization, and empowering the youth. We advocate for artists and storytellers to establish roots and contribute to Treaty 6 Territory. The festival extends its impact beyond its annual event by providing after school film programming for on-reserve youth, tailored for youth audiences, investing in Indigenous storytelling for generations to come.
The Ācimowin Film Festival is committed to collaboration with community organizations that share our core values, aiming to strengthen the festival's foundation and forge lasting connections while maintaining eco-friendly initiatives.
Conceived with the intent to inspire the next generation of Indigenous filmmakers and foster the filmmaking movement in Saskatchewan, our goal is to establish the festival as an annual fixture while preserving its grassroots essence, ensuring it remains a platform predominantly led and influenced by Indigenous storytellers.
The Ācimowin Film Festival envisions a future where Indigenous filmmaking is not only normalized but celebrated providing a vital platform for Indigenous cinema to thrive on the prairies.
"When I talk about narrative sovereignty, what I'm really talking about is the ability of the nations to have some measure of control over the stories that are told about themselves... Throughout the entire history of filmmaking, the-overwhelming majority of the stories told about Indigenous peoples - both fictional and documentaries - have been told by non-Indigenous peoples."