NFB launches Indigenous Cinema website with more than 200 films to stream

The National Film Board of Canada has launched Indigenous Cinema, a website that offers free streaming of more than 200 titles by Indigenous directors.

The website is part of the NFB's three-year Indigenous Action Plan and will also feature playlists and filmmaker biographies.

Films available to stream include Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell's You Are on Indian Land,Alanis Obomsawin's Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistanceand Gil Cardinal's autobiographical Foster Child.

Spanning both shortand feature-length moviesproduced from 1968 to 2017, the collection includesentries from contemporary artists, writers and filmmakers such asKent Monkman, Duane Linklater, Katherena Vermette, Drew Hayden Taylor, Michelle Latimer, Tracey Deerand Jeff Barnaby.

Titles from this collection have been featured in the NFB's #Aabiziingwashi (#WideAwake) Indigenous cinema series, which has hosted 700 community screenings across Canada since its launch in April 2017.

Other commitments in the NFB's Indigenous Action Plan include efforts to achieve workforce equity, cultural-competency training for all staff, and allocating a minimum of 15 per cent of its overall production spending to Indigenous-directed projects.