Join us for an informative conversation about the importance of Indigenous representation in the arts and media, narrative sovereignty and the power of storytelling to educate, share and heal.
This FREE lecture is led by Kanien’kehá:ka-Quebecois filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau. Registration is not required but recommended to secure your spot!
What Is Night School?
DARC’s Night School is a bi-monthly, free, lecture series designed to provide the basic fundamentals of media arts, theories, and current works of significance and interest. We want to demystify this constantly evolving form. This is a free event series for DARC members and members of the arts community at large. You are invited to join these lectures if you are: a DARC member, artist, creator, arts/cultural worker, looking to experiment in a new discipline, or an admirer or advocate for video and media arts. Attendance at every lecture is not necessary but recommended!
Speaker
Sonia is a bilingual Kanien’kehá:ka-Quebecois filmmaker who has been working for over fifteen years at bringing Indigenous content to the screen for audiences of all cultural backgrounds. She first started making documentaries to explore her bicultural heritage and understand the impacts of colonialism. Co-owner of Nish Media, she is the recipient of a several Prix Gémeaux, the APTN Distinction Award (2016) and the Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award (2017). In addition to having created youth programming and documentaries (Last Call Indian, The Oka Legacy, Wapikoni, Skindigenous), she has written and directed two feature-length scripted films, Le dep (2015) and Rustic Oracle (2019). Sonia recently wrote and directed her first limited series Pour toi Flora (2022), which won the 2022 Cannes MipCom Diversity Award, the award for Best Mini-series at C21 Content London 2022 and the Grand Prix de L’Académie at the 2023 Prix Gémeaux.
