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Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising
This stirring historical film depicts a 1974 Indigenous youth occupation in Kenora, focusing on Louie Cameron: the leader of the Ojibway Warrior Society.
Director
Shane Belcourt (Métis)
Belcourt is a producer, writer, and filmmaker whose directing credits include numerous shorts such as Pookums, Boxed In, and Say Yes, as well as the features Tkaronto, Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier (which won the Alanis Obomsawin Award at imagineNATIVE), Red Rover, Beautiful Scars of Tom Wilson, Warrior Song and Ni Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, which premiered at TIFF. He also directed episodes of Urban Native Girl, CBC Docs POV, and Amplify.
Writers
Shane Belcourt (Métis), Tanya Talaga (Anishinaabe)
Genre
Documentary
Interests
Biography, History, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
English