Reviews: Seeds from imagineNATIVE 2025 June 20, 2025 Ziggy is an influencer who has just scored a huge endorsement with Nature’s Oath, until she realizes she’s been targeted by them to steal her family’s seeds. Continue Reading
Reviews: Aberdeen from imagineNATIVE 2025 June 19, 2025 Aberdeen is about a grandmother who is stuck in a cycle of struggle as she deals with being unhoused, addiction and losing custody of her grandchildren. Continue Reading
Reviews: Remaining Native from imagineNATIVE 2025 June 17, 2025 Final Rating: 3.5/5 In summer 2022, Kutoven “Ku” Stevens began the annual Remembrance Run, a two-day, 50-mile event in rural Nevada, in which participants… Continue Reading
Reviews: The Lost Tiger from imagineNATIVE 2025 June 16, 2025 Final Rating: 3/5 The Lost Tiger, directed by Chantelle Murray, opens with Red (Jimi Bani) and Kara (Nakkiah Lui), a young kangaroo couple, discovering… Continue Reading
259: 2023 ImagineNATIVE November 14, 2023 ImagineNATIVE is the world’s biggest Indigenous film and arts festival. We discuss I’m Just Here For The Riot, Fancy Dance, Hey Viktor!, Tautuktavuk: What We See, Red, White and Brass and Inky Pinky Ponky. Continue Reading
Reviews: Hey Viktor! from ImagineNATIVE 2023 November 3, 2023 In Cody Lightning’s debut film Hey Viktor!, Lightning plays a lightly fictionalized version of himself attempting to revitalize his failing career with a spiritual successor to his most famous film. Named for a notable line in Smoke Signals, Lightning’s 1998 acting debut, Hey Viktor! is a wildly funny look at minor fame that packs a surprising amount of heart. Continue Reading
Reviews: Fancy Dance from ImagineNATIVE 2023 October 23, 2023 Centred around the coming-of-age of a young Seneca-Cayuga girl on a road trip with her aunt, Fancy Dance deftly weaves in themes of cultural assimilation, missing and murdered indigenous women, and apathy towards crime against Native Americans. Continue Reading
130: imagineNATIVE November 3, 2020 On this episode we cover the 2020 imagineNATIVE film festival, which celebrates the best Indigenous filmmaking from around the world! We are joined by… Continue Reading
