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Indigenous Cinema Soars in Ontario Thanks to Studio Growth, Inclusive and Educational Initiatives
Indigenous cinema and storytelling in Ontario has been amplified thanks to inclusive and educational initiatives plus studio growth.
Filmed in the streets, schools and businesses of Greater Sudbury in 2022, “Café Daughter” is based on a 2013 work by Cree playwright Kenneth T. Williams that was inspired by the early life of Lillian Dyck — the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD. Ontario Creates, which has offered Diversity Enhancement Addendum as part of its Film Fund Production program since 2017, has partnered with the ISO on “Café Daughters,” “Night Raiders” (shot around Toronto) and Gail Maurice’s “Rosie” (Hamilton). “Working with ‘Raiders’ really helped set the path for these kinds of opportunities,” she adds.In the 2010s, Volume Global co-CEO Christopher Harrington directed and produced dozens of films — “a few Christmas movies and horror thrillers” — pulled by the NOHF grant.
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