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Reciprocal Relations: start activate future days

2023-11-07

Join us for a night of Indigenous Excellence with Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre! Curated by KJ Edwards & Theo Cuthand as part of the Reciprocal Relations programme, start activate future days is a programme of four films by native auteurs that push the boundaries of commercial narrative, exploring what it is to exist and build identity in a contemporary world, impacted by, and in spite of, colonial systems.


Terry J. Jones' Savage / Future, Natalie King's Activate NDN Consciousness, and JJ Neepin's Laundry Day offer insight into diverse representations of family history, domestic self, artistic practice and culture in relation to acknowledging and healing from colonial violence. And Shelley Niro's groundbreaking short, made in collaboration with Anna Gronau, It Starts With a Whisper, takes us along on a young woman's journey navigating the oddities of city life, where she reflects on how her traditional and contemporary ways are tethered within her, through memory, imagination, and her connection to place.


Join us for a reception prior and Q&A afterwards with the filmmakers, where we will have the opportunity to hear them discuss their filmmaking practice!


Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Reception: 6:30pm

Screening: 7pm (80min with Q&A)

Admission: Free! (18 years or older)

Location: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 1411 Dufferin Street, Unit D, Toronto, ON, M6H 4C7


Please note that seating is first come, first served. Limited to 50. Mask-wearing is strongly encouraged during the screening to protect yourself and others.


Screening Lineup:

Savage / Future (dir. Terry J. Jones (Seneca), 2022, 3 min)

Activate NDN Consciousness (dir. Natalie King (Algonquin), 2019, 6 min)

Laundry Day (dir. JJ Neepin (Cree), 2017, 3 min)

It Starts With A Whisper (dir. Shelley Niro (Mohawk) & Anna Gronau,1993, 27 min)


All titles will be screened digitally.


The works in this programme are distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC). Thank you for the Canada Council for the Arts for supporting this project.





Image: It Starts With a Whisper, Shelley Niro & Anna Gronau, 1993

TERRITORY & SOLIDARITY: The daily work of CFMDC takes place in Tkaronto (Toronto) which is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. We also acknowledge The Dish with One Spoon treaty between the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee that covers the land of what is now called southern Ontario. We work with the knowledge of the importance of recognition of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the four First Nations Principles of OCAP®. As a Media Arts organization we draw your attention to the work of the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC). As part of  anti-colonial solidarity, CFMDC board and staff proudly commits to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Calls to support PACBI and the wider Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) come from Palestinian civil society and are grassroots strategies opposing the colonization of Palestine by directly targeting complicity.

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Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

209 - 401 Richmond Street West  

 Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8

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