Tuesday, February 25 at 7:30 p.m. | Free Admission

CineCycle

129 Spadina Ave (green door in alley)

OPEN FORUM: ANTI-RACISM ON SCREEN presents WILFRED BUCK (2024, 96 min.)

Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this rollicking hybrid documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, who overcame a harrowing history by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge.

Screening followed by conversation with filmmakers Lisa Jackson & Danis Goulet. 

Lisa Jackson is an award-winning Anishnaabe filmmaker whose films and media arts projects include Wilfred Buck (2024), Biidaaban: First Light (2018), Savage (2010), and How a People Live (2014). A York MFA alum, she works in documentary, fiction, animation, VR, and media arts.

Danis Goulet is a Cree/Metis writer and director, whose films have screened at Sundance, Berlinale, MoMA, and TIFF. These include the series Reservation Dogs and North by North, Barefoot (2012); Wakening (2013); and her debut feature Night Raiders (2021).

Co-presented by: 

National Film Board of Canada

TMU Creative School

ImagiNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival

CFMDC & Vtape 

Toronto Palestine Film Festival

Reel Asian International Film Festival

York's Graduate Film Student Association

U of T Cinema Studies Institute

OCADU Art and Social Change

York U Cinema & Media Arts

Sensorium & AMPD, York U

World Records

OPEN FORUM is a 'last Tuesdays' monthly series of conversations exploring anti-racism, on our screens and in our film communities. Introductions by Archer Pechawis & Tara Hakim.