Have a film night in the community

Thursday, May 18th, 2017 12:15pm
Wapikoni has produced more than 1,000 films made by Indigenous youth over the last 12 years.

By Windspeaker.com Staff
With files from Dustin McGladrey, CFWE-FM

 

Wapikoni Mobile’s Cinema on Wheels is heading across the country to showcase the best of the more than 1,000 Indigenous youth-made films produced over the past 12 years.

And the team is looking for community invitations to host free outdoor screenings. Wapikoni can do daytime indoor screening too, and is open to theatrical screenings. The program run time is about 60 minutes.

Currently, Wapikoni is in Kamloops and should hit Banff on Friday. The tour will arrive in Halifax by November. The goal is to visit more than 80 Indigenous communities in between.

“We’re equipped with everything we need,” Jocelyn Piirainen told Dustin McGladrey of CFWE-FM. She is Inuit, originally from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. “We have a huge screen that we put up. We have projectors, speakers.”

Watch their trailer https://vimeo.com/209573738 and then set up a screening by contacting Christian Morissette mailto:distribution@wapikoni.ca | Tel: 514 276-9274 # 228 | See their films at: http://www.wapikoni.ca/home