Films

Café Daughter 

Canada | 2023 

Drama | 1:37 

Unrated

Director: Shelley Niro

Starring: Star Slade, Violah Beauvais, Sera-Lys McArthur

A 2023 Canadian drama directed by Shelley Niro, adapted from the Kenneth T. Williams stage play of the same name, which was itself a fictionalized account of the life of Canadian academic and senator, the Honourable Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck OC.  The film is about a young girl of mixed Cree and Chinese Canadian ancestry, growing up in Saskatchewan in the 1960s.  She faces challenges after the death of her mother but remains focused on her goal of attending medical school. 

Audience Choice Award at the 2023 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. 

American Indian Film Festival: 2023 Nominee for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

Immediately following the Saturday evening screening of Café Daughter, we are excited to have a panel discussion with Director Shelley Niro and the Honourable Dr. Lillian Eva Quan Dyck OC, hosted by CTV Saskatoon`s Jeff Rogstad.

Singing Back the Buffalo 

Canada | 2024 

Documentary | 1:38 

Director: Tasha Hubbard

Richly visualized and deeply uplifting: an epic reimagining of North America through the lens of buffalo consciousness.  Together with Blackfoot Elder Leroy Little Bear, Hubbard weaves an intimate story of humanity's connections to buffalo, and eloquently reveals how their return to the Great Plains can indeed usher in a new era of sustainability and balance. - hotdocs.ca

Tasha Hubbard in a professor at the University of Alberta.

Winner Nigel Moore Award, Special Jury Mention, DOXA Documentary Film Festival

Nominee Top 20 Audience Favorites, Land Sky Sea Award, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Immediately following the Friday evening screening of Singing Back the Buffalo, we are excited to have a panel discussion with the film's Impact Producer, Jade Tootoosis, and Anthony Blair Dreaver Johnston. Tootoosis is from Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan and is also a member of the Rocky Boy Chippewa Cree Nation in Montana. She works with the Native Studies and Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge at the University of Alberta. She is an advocate, activist, and spokesperson for calls for justice for Indigenous people on Turtle Island.  Johnston is a member of Mistawasis Nêhiyawak and a director on the board of governors of Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve, and one of two Elder Advisors for the Indigenous Circle for Biosphere Reserves in Canada.  This panel will hosted by CTV Saskatoon`s Jeff Rogstad.