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Trevor Solway, Sinakson, is a Blackfoot filmmaker from Siksika Nation. His Breakthrough film Indian Giver screened internationally and can now be found on Amazon Prime Video. In 2021 Trevor directed the award-winning POV documentary Kaatohkitopii: The Horse He Never Rode screened at ImagineNATIVE Arts +Media Festival and DOXA Festival (CBC GEM). In 2022 he directed an episode of the docs-series Stuff The British Stole for CBC/ABC. He has been an episodic director for Amplify Season 2 and 3 for APTN.
He is the writer/director/showrunner of Tales From The Rez, a horror comedy anthology series available on APTN Lumi. TFTR won the audience choice award at Calgary International Film Festival and was nominated for 9 Rosie Awards, winning Best Screenwriter under 30 minutes and Best Production Reflecting Cultural Diversity.
In 2025 his most recent feature documentary Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man (Prod. by The National Film Board of Canada) had its world premiere at Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and screened at ImagineNATIVE Arts +Media Festival winning the Audience Choice Award.
In 2020 Trevor was the recipient of the MRU Horizon Award for early career success and in 2021 he was named Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40. He is the founder and leader of The Napi Collective, a grassroots filmmaking society based out of Siksika Nation.
He attended the Indigenous Digital Filmmaking program at Capilano University in 2012. He then graduated from Mount Royal University with his Bachelor’s of Communications in 2017.
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