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Documentary | Canada | 88 minutes | English

Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising

Director: Shane Belcourt

Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, tells the little-known 1974 story of Anishinaabe youth who staged an armed occupation at a Kenora, Canada park, along with members of the American Indian Movement. Using rare archival footage, first-hand interviews and the recently discovered manuscript of the occupation’s charismatic leader, Louis Cameron, this 90 minute, powerful and groovy documentary, shouts out a story of Indigenous power and resilience.

CAST & CREDITS

Director

Shane Belcourt

Producer

Tanya Talaga

Writer

Tanya Talaga, Shane Belcourt

Key Cast

Tyler Cameron

DIRECTORS BIO

Shane Belcourt is a two-time CSA-nominated Director, with award-winning narrative and documentary works in both film and TV. His debut feature film TKARONTO, had a theatrical release, was sold to SuperChannel and Air Canada, and was showcased in both the TIFF Indigenous Cinema Retrospective and the UCLA Film & Television Archive traveling exhibition, “Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema”. Shane also directed CHANIE WENJACK which Walrus Magazine noted as “the Heritage Minute Canada needs to see”.

His most recent feature film, RED ROVER, premiered at the Whistler Film Festival, opened the Canadian Film Festival and was released in March 2020 to glowing reviews.

On the documentary side of things, Shane directed KAHA:WI, which features dancer and choreographer Santee Smith. It premiered at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, aired on APTN and CBC Docs, and won a CSC Award for Best Cinematography in 2016, along with a CSA Best Director nomination.

Shane co-directed (with Lisa Jackson) the CBC one-hour INDICTMENT: THE CRIMES OF SHELLY CHARTIER which won Best Doc at imagineNATIVE. In the Fall of 2020, AMPLIFY, aired on APTN, which Shane created and showran. He was a Consulting Producer (writing room story editor) on CBC’s new drama series, THE TRICKSTER.

Shane is an alumna of the TIFF Talent Lab and NSI’s Totally Television programs, a member of the DGC, and is represented by Carl Liberman at The Characters Talent Agency.

Returning Filmmaker

SHOWTIMES

Tuesday, November 11
Screening: 9:15pm

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Post Screening Guest:

Shane Belcourt

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