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The 25th First Peoples Festival announced their winners during a ceremony that took place at the Jean-Claude Lauzon Theatre (UQAM). Creation : Teueikan 1st Prize : Café Hatuey Viveros Lavielle – Mexico – 80 min A view of time immemorial in a civilization whose roots extend to the depths of human settlement of the Americas is…
The film Circus without borders will open Montreal First Peoples Festival on Wednesday, July 29th. This 69mns documentary produced and directed by Susan Gray and Linda Matchan tells the story of two circus companies, one in Nunavut, the other in Guinea‐Conakry, have brought young people together from the ends of the earth to overcome the limits geography and history…
Towering over First Peoples Festival’s 25 years, seven thousand years of human presence in this place looks down upon you… The First Nations festival returns to Montreal in 2015 in a spectacular setting that will spread its wings at Place des Festivals: thrilling concerts, an exacting selection of films and videos, the great multicultural parade…
Flashes of warmth and thundering drums will mark summer’s arrival in Montreal. Everyone is welcome to join in the celebration. June 21st National Aboriginal Peoples Day Participants will gather on St. Jacques Street, at the intersection of St. Laurent Boulevard, starting at 1 p.m. At 2 p.m., bearing our giant effigies, to the sound of…
Terres en vues / Land Insights salutes the top rank awarded to Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner on the list of the best Canadian films of all time. Bravo to Zacharias Kunuk, to Norman Cohn, to the Inuit cast of the film, and in particular to Natar Ungalaaq, unforgettable in the title role. Bravo as well…
Montreal March 26 2015. Terres en vues, société pour la diffusion de la culture autochtone is pleased to announce that First Peoples Festival has earned the Top Event 2015 award presented by Aboriginal Tourism Quebec at the Entrepreneurship Recognition Gala for Aboriginal Tourism. This ceremony was the closing event at the 4th International Aboriginal Tourism…
The Montreal First Peoples Festival is calling on you to submit your audiovisual works for this years’ showcase, taking place July 29th to August 5th. As always, we will screen a selection of films of all kinds, short and feature-length, representing First Nations across the Americas and other parts of the world. Although we seek…
Teueikan Award – Creation Grand prize: THE HEALING WINDS by Joël Montañez At the precise point starting from which a true artist is able to speak out against reality as if it were a fiction in which we believe too innocently, Joël Montañez has set up his camera and turned his lens towards a Northern…
Drunktown’s Finest, Grand Prize at Los Angeles Outfest, awaited in Montreal with its director Navajo director Sydney Freeland next week for First Peoples’ Festival, has won the Grand Jury Award at the 32nd LGBT Los Angeles Outfest, for her feature film Drunktown’s Finest. The screenplay invites us to follow three young Navajos at the crossroads….
The Canadian Guild of Crafts is proud to present, in partnership with the Montreal First Peoples Festival, the most recent solo exhibition by artist Eruoma Awashish, Reliques et passages, which will be held from July 17th to August 30th 2014. The opening will take place on Thursday, July 17th 2014 from 5 p.m. to 7…