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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/forest-city-film-festival/
SUMMARY:Forest City Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Wilfred Buck is screening at Forest City Film Festival!\n\nOcto
 ber 20\, 2024 @ 2:15pm - Wolf Performance Hall\n\nPurchase TICKETS\n\n&nbs
 p\;\n\nWILFRED BUCK - directed by Lisa Jackson (2024\, 96 mins)\n\nHe’s 
 from the “fresh-out-of-the-bush\, partly civilized\, colonized\, displac
 ed people\,” and he’s here to take us to the stars. Lisa Jackson’s p
 ortrait of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck moves between earth and sky\, past and 
 present\, bringing to life ancient teachings of Indigenous astronomy and c
 osmology to tell a story that spans generations. This hybrid feature docum
 entary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck\, a charismatic and 
 irreverent Cree Elder who overcame a harrowing yet familiar history of dis
 placement\, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge an
 d ceremony.\n\nBuck is humble\, profound\, funny\, always real and a maste
 r storyteller. As a young man\, his community in Northern Manitoba is forc
 ibly relocated to make way for a hydroelectric dam\, Buck’s family loses
  everything. He descends into the darkness of the city streets\, surviving
  any way he can\, until he reconnects with Elders who start him on a path 
 that transforms his world.  Driven by insatiable curiosity and instructed
  by dreams\, Buck becomes a science educator and internationally respected
  star lore expert. His mission is sharing these life-changing teachings—
 as relevant and urgent today as ever—always guided by ceremony and ancho
 red in the land.\n\nAdapted from Buck’s rollicking memoir I Have Lived 
 Four Lives\, director Lisa Jackson deftly interweaves verité footage of B
 uck’s present with archival footage and cinematic\, dramatized scenes fr
 om his past\, painting a portrait of a beloved leader who now stands at th
 e forefront of the resurgence of Indigenous ways of knowing.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\
 n[embed]https://vimeo.com/942488273[/embed]\n\n&nbsp\;
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CATEGORIES:Festivals,Paid Event,Wilfred Buck
LOCATION:Wolf Performance Hall\, 251 Dundas St.\, London\, N6A 6H9\, Canada
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