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ImagineNATIVE


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ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival specialises in Indigenous content from around the world and has become a global focal point for Indigenous content creators. It exclusively presents Indigenous made screen, digital and interactive, and audio content.

 

It is an Indigenous-led organisation and its organising entity, The Centre for Aboriginal Media, is one of the leading arts organisations in Canada. The festival has been running for twenty plus years. The festivals screens films, episodic series for web and television, video games, VR, 360, and AR web-based experiences.

 

Premiere status (e.g. world or international premiere) is not a requirement (though preference may be given to titles not previously screened).


Awards

2022 - Won - We Are Still Here - Best Dramatic Feature Award

2007 - Won - unsettled - Best New Media - Honorable Mention

2007 - Won - Nana - Best Short Drama - Honorable Mention

Screenings

2026 - Crown & Country

2026 - Colleano Heart, The

2026 - Journey Home, David Gulpilil

2025 - First Contact

2025 - Hydraulic

2025 - Ornmol

2025 - Lost Tiger, The

2023 - Alexander Ball, The

2023 - New Boy, The

2023 - Katele (Mudskipper)

2023 - Pasifika Drift

2023 - Babanil

2023 - To Be Silent

2022 - Tooly

2022 - Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, The

2022 - We Are Still Here

2007 - unsettled

2007 - Black Beach

2007 - Turtle, The

2007 - Kwatye

2007 - Days Like These

2007 - Hush

2007 - Nana

2007 - Jackie Jackie

2007 - Done. Dirt Cheap.

2007 - Sister's Love, A

2007 - Back Seat

2007 - Blood Lines

2007 - Amy Goes to Wadjemup Island

2007 - Footprints in the Sand: The Last of the Nomads

2007 - Destiny in Alice

2007 - Storytime

2007 - Other[wize]

2006 - Scrub

2005 - Plains Empty

2005 - Green Bush

2004 - Whispering in Our Hearts... The Mowla Bluff Massacre

2004 - Wiradjuri Fight to the Bitter End, The

2002 - Fragments

2002 - Shit Skin

2002 - Desperate Times

2001 - Minymaku Way

2000 - Round Up

2000 - Apekathe

2000 - Harry's War

2000 - Confessions of a Headhunter

Website:
http://www.imaginenative.org/
Start:
2/06/2026
End:
7/06/2026

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