Duke Redbird

Young, gifted and black! In an act of self-empowerment, a group of young Black people, mainly first and second generation immigrants from the Caribbean, have occupied the public space of the Toronto underground to perform their agitprop concept of edutainment – poets, rappers, singers and musicians.

Three Ojibway Natives race to find a mystical ancestral spring before a ruthless industrialist claim it.

A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects. Amisk represents early work by Obomsawin, a trailblazer in Canadian Aboriginal film.

First Nations documentary

First Nations documentary

An animated film, based on an Indigenous comic-strip character created by Duke Redbird, telling the story of a young man who leaves the reserve to make his way in the city. Eventually he returns to the reserve and the ways of his people.