Join us on February 1, 2022 at 6:00 pm EST (7:00 pm in Labrador) for Inuit Filmmakers in Nunatsiavut! A Conversation on New NFB Shorts with Holly Andersen, Ossie Michelin, Heather Campbell, Heather Igloliorte, and Jennie Williams.
The discussion among four Inuit filmmakers who are creating diverse, exciting and innovative short films throughout 2021/2022 with the National Film Board will be moderated by Inuit Futures director Heather Igloliorte The panel will be followed by a 30 minute Q&A. This panel is open to all.
The panel will take place online using Zoom. Upon registering for the panel, you will receive instructions on how to use Zoom. This panel, like every ISO series event, is free.
About the Panelists:
Holly Andersen is a photographer from Makkovik, NL, and her photographic practice encompasses a wide range of subjects including candid and portraiture photography of family and friends, macro photography of insects and nature and landscape photography including local wildlife. Her work has been featured in such exhibitions as 'Our Beautiful Land' at La Guilde in Montreal, and the Bonavista Biennale in Bonavista, NL. She is currently working on a documentary with the NFB about the Hebron Relocation.
Ossie Michelin is an Inuk journalist, and filmmaker from the community of North West River, Labrador. For over ten years he has contributed to many Canadian news broadcasts, publications, and websites. His work documenting Indigenous Land Defenders has received awards and international acclaim. Ossie comes from a long line of storytellers and loves sharing stories about the Indigenous world.
Heather Campbell is from Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, NL and holds a BFA from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Campbell is currently working at the Inuit Art Foundation as the Strategic Initiatives Director. Formerly she was contracted as the Curatorial Assistant in the Indigenous Art Department at the National Gallery of Canada. Campbell was Curatorial Assistant at the Inuit Art Centre, Ottawa, ON for a number of years, and was on the board of directors of Gallery 101 artist run centre as well as the board of the Artist Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario. Campbell’s art has been in a number of group exhibitions, most recently Nunatsiavut - Our Beautiful Land, at la guilde in Montreal, QC. Her work can be found in many collections including the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, QC, Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, QC, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada in Ottawa, ON and Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
Heather Igloliorte (Art History, Museum Studies and Curatorial Practice; Nunatsiavut) is the Director of the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq/ Pijariuqsarniq Project. Heather holds the Tier 1 University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts at Concordia University, is an associate professor in the Department of Art History, and co-directs the Indigenous Futures Cluster of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology with Professor Jason Edward Lewis.
Heather has been a curator for fifteen years, and currently has three exhibitions touring nationally and internationally; she and three other Inuit are guest curators of the inaugural exhibition of the new Inuit Art Centre, INUA, opening at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2020. Heather publishes frequently; she has co-edited special issues of journals PUBLIC 54: Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital (2016) and RACAR: Continuities Between Eras: Indigenous arts (2017), and her essay “Curating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit Knowledge in the Qallunaat Art Museum,” was awarded the 2017 Distinguished Article of the Year from Art Journal. At Concordia, Heather serves as the Special Advisor to the Provost on Advancing Indigenous Knowledges, and in this role contributes to the efforts of the university Indigenous Directions Leadership Group.
She is also the President of the Board of Directors of the Inuit Art Foundation, currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Circle for the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Native North American Art Studies Association, the Faculty Council of the Otsego Institute for Native American Art History at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, and the Nunavut Film Development Corporation, among others.
Jennie Williams is an Inuk photographer and filmmaker from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. As a professional photographer, she creates powerful images that convey the cultural landscape and lived experience of Inuit. Her stirring photography has received national acclaim, was included in the travelling exhibition SakKijâjuk, and is curated as part of the Future Possible series at The Rooms Provincial Gallery and the Bonavista Biennale (2021). Jennie’s captivating photos have also been featured in established magazines such as Inuit Art Quarterly and Canadian Art. Her work has been recognized through honours such as the Elbow Room Residency and the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (2017). Her longest-running project is a 12-year photographic series on the Labrador tradition entitled Nalujuk Night. In 2021, her short film about Nalujuk Night was completed and it is currently making it’s rounds in film festivals both Nationally and Internationally. In 2021 her film won best Atlantic Short Documentary at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival and was a part of the following film festivals (with more to come in 2022):
Winner – Best Atlantic Short Documentary FIN Atlantic International Film Festival
Official Selection - Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse, Canada (2022)
Official Selection - imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada, (2021)
Official Selection - St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, NL, Canada (2021)
Official Selection - Vancouver International Film Festival (2021)
Official Selection - Festival du nouveau cinéma (2021)
Official Selection - Shorts: She Stories DOC NYC (2021)
Nominee - Best Documentary Short American Indian Film Festival (2021)