ImagineNATIVE

Canada
All genres

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 - Nana - Best Short Drama - Honorable Mention - Humour Me: Comedy Shorts

Screenings

2025 - Short Film Program: Kin Ties - Hydraulic

2025 - North American Premiere - Ornmol

2025 - North American Premiere - Lost Tiger, The

2023 - Short Film Program 6: That’s My Baby! - Alexander Ball, The

2023 - Feature Film - New Boy, The

2023 - Short Film Program 8: Into The Unknown - Katele (Mudskipper)

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

2022 - Fiction - Feature Film - We Are Still Here

2007 - ImagineNATIVE - Other[wize]

2007 - The Young Ones, Youth Program - Black Beach

2007 - The Young Ones, Youth Program - Turtle, The

2007 - The Young Ones, Youth Program - Kwatye

2007 - The Young Ones, Youth Program - Days Like These

2007 - Humour Me: Comedy Shorts - Hush

2007 - Humour Me: Comedy Shorts - Nana

2007 - Humour Me: Comedy Shorts - Jackie Jackie

2007 - Weaving Worlds - Done. Dirt Cheap.

2007 - Weaving Worlds - Sister's Love, A

2007 - A Place Between: The Story of Adoption - Back Seat

2007 - A Place Between: The Story of Adoption - Blood Lines

2007 - Children’s Program - Amy Goes to Wadjemup Island

2007 - True Romance: Shorts Program - Footprints in the Sand: The Last of the Nomads

2007 - True Romance: Shorts Program - Destiny in Alice

2007 - The Witching Hour - Storytime

2006 - ImagineNATIVE - Scrub

2005 - ImagineNATIVE - Plains Empty

2005 - ImagineNATIVE - Green Bush

2004 - ImagineNATIVE - Wiradjuri Fight to the Bitter End, The

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

2002 - ImagineNATIVE - Shit Skin

2002 - ImagineNATIVE - Fragments

2002 - ImagineNATIVE - Desperate Times

2001 - ImagineNATIVE - Minymaku Way

2000 - ImagineNATIVE - Confessions of a Headhunter

2000 - ImagineNATIVE - Harry's War

2000 - ImagineNATIVE - Round Up

2000 - ImagineNATIVE - Apekathe