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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/screening-at-mariposa-arts-theatre/
SUMMARY:Screening at Mariposa Arts Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Wilfred Buck is screening as part of the Mariposa Arts Theatre 
 Fall Film Series 2024!\n\nPurchase tickets\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nWILFRED BUCK - di
 rected by Lisa Jackson (2024\, 96 mins)\n\nHe’s from the “fresh-out-of
 -the-bush\, partly civilized\, colonized\, displaced people\,” and he’
 s here to take us to the stars. Lisa Jackson’s portrait of Cree Elder Wi
 lfred Buck moves between earth and sky\, past and present\, bringing to li
 fe ancient teachings of Indigenous astronomy and cosmology to tell a story
  that spans generations. This hybrid feature documentary follows the extra
 ordinary life of Wilfred Buck\, a charismatic and irreverent Cree Elder wh
 o overcame a harrowing yet familiar history of displacement\, racism and a
 ddiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony.\n\nBuck is h
 umble\, profound\, funny\, always real and a master storyteller. As a youn
 g man\, his community in Northern Manitoba is forcibly relocated to make w
 ay 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 worl
 d.  Driven by insatiable curiosity and instructed by dreams\, Buck become
 s a science educator and internationally respected star lore expert. His m
 ission is sharing these life-changing teachings—as relevant and urgent t
 oday as ever—always guided by ceremony and anchored in the land.\n\nAdap
 ted from Buck’s rollicking memoir I Have Lived Four Lives\, director Li
 sa Jackson deftly interweaves verité footage of Buck’s present with arc
 hival footage and cinematic\, dramatized scenes from his past\, painting a
  portrait of a beloved leader who now stands at the forefront of the resur
 gence of Indigenous ways of knowing.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n[embed]https://vimeo.co
 m/942488273[/embed]\n\n&nbsp\;
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CATEGORIES:Paid Event,Theatricals,Wilfred Buck
LOCATION:The MAT Centre\, 12 Brammer Drive\, Orillia \, Ontario\, L3V 7T4\,
  Cameroon
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