Our Stories, Our Identities
Moving Towards Healing
Our Stories, Our Identities is an initiative dedicated to reconnecting urban Aboriginal Youth with their roots and promoting healing through a series of cultural and media projects and workshops that will provide youth the tools and skills they need to make their voices heard.
The Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival will be screening all 16 completed films from Our Stories, Our Identities. Screenings will be held: Friday November 18th from 9:00 a.m. -3:30 p.m. at the University of Winnipeg. They will be screened at WAFF’s special weekend, “Building Bridges” Building Bridges is a special project to assist in honoring and validating the healing and reconciliation of former residential school survivors and their families. All of our youth films are made my young first time Metis and First Nation filmmakers who have been impacted by the legacy of residential schools. Topics include suicide, sexual abuse and addiction. All of the films are told in a very personal way and have messages of resiliance and moving forward toward healing. Full Schedule with film times and details to be posted soon!
**WAFF is now accepting applications for interested youth who want to take part in Our Stories, Our Identities 2012. Please send an email to waff email if you are interested and we will be happy to get back to you with more details.
We are booking the video tour for the month of January, 2012. If you would like us to come to your school and show our films, please fill out the form below
Aboriginal youth are invited to attend a series of culturally relevant gatherings, planned and organized by an Aboriginal Youth Advisory Committee, where they reflect on and explore their stories on videotape. Gatherings start in fall 2010.
Youth will come learn more about an issue that affects them. Elders, leaders and community members who can speak to each issue will tell their story and tell how they have healed through cultural connections, in particular through storytelling and sharing.
Topics can include:
• alcohol/substance abuse
• identity
• the inter-generational effect of residential schools
• foster care/adoption
• suicide
Additional gatherings are for youth to show their work and get feedback from experts in filmmaking
and fellow participants.
At the end of the project, youth will have a short video story that will be showcased at the Winnipeg
Aboriginal Film Festival in November 2010 to a live youth audience of approximately 300 and an online audience of youth from across Canada. Youth will be invited to participate in a Q & A along with their mentors after the screening of their film.
Videos made by Deanna McCallum, Cliffina Harper and Sanuye Sanderson won “Best Youth Talent” at the 2010 Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival these films along with others will go on a cross-Manitoba highschool tour to share these unique stories with other youth.
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