BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1946@events.nfb.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Winnipeg:20250325T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Winnipeg:20250325T200000 DTSTAMP:20250222T001529Z URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/wilfred-buck-18/ SUMMARY:Wilfred Buck DESCRIPTION:Selkirk Friendship Centre invites you to a free community scree ning of\n\nWILFRED BUCK\n\nDirected by Lisa Jackson (2024\, 96 mins)\n\nHe ’s from the “fresh-out-of-the-bush\, partly civilized\, colonized\, di splaced people\,” and he’s here to take us to the stars. Lisa Jackson ’s portrait of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck moves between earth and sky\, pas t and present\, bringing to life ancient teachings of Indigenous astronomy and cosmology to tell a story that spans generations. This hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck\, a charismati c and irreverent Cree Elder who overcame a harrowing yet familiar history of displacement\, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowle dge and ceremony.\n\nBuck is humble\, profound\, funny\, always real and a master storyteller. As a young man\, his community in Northern Manitoba i s forcibly relocated to make way for a hydroelectric dam\, Buck’s family loses everything. He descends into the darkness of the city streets\, sur viving any way he can\, until he reconnects with Elders who start him on a path that transforms his world.  Driven by insatiable curiosity and inst ructed by dreams\, Buck becomes a science educator and internationally res pected star lore expert. His mission is sharing these life-changing teachi ngs—as relevant and urgent today as ever—always guided by ceremony and anchored in the land.\n\nAdapted from Buck’s rollicking memoir I Have Lived Four Lives\, director Lisa Jackson deftly interweaves verité footag e of Buck’s present with archival footage and cinematic\, dramatized sce nes from his past\, painting a portrait of a beloved leader who now stands at the forefront of the resurgence of Indigenous ways of knowing.\n\n---- --------------------------------\n\nWatch the trailer at https://vimeo.co m/942488273\n\n—\nAbout Lisa Jackson:\nLisa Jackson is an Anishinaabe fi lmmaker whose work has garnered two Canadian Screen Awards\, been nominate d for a Webby and screened at top festivals including Sundance\, Tribeca\, SXSW\, Berlinale and Hot Docs. Her VR experience Biidaaban was viewed b y more than 25\,000 people\, while her film Indictment won Best Doc at i magineNATIVE and is one of CBC’s top watched documentaries. She won the 2022 Chicken &\; Egg Award and the 2021 DOC Vanguard Award\, and has an MFA from York University.\n----\n\nAll are welcome. No pre-registration i s required. More info at (204) 482-7525 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.nfb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05 /WilfredBuck_Wilfred_Buck_Eagle_Shirt-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Free Event,Screenings,Wilfred Buck LOCATION:Selkirk Friendship Centre\, 425 Eveline Street \, Selkirk\, MB\, R 1A 2J5\, Canada GEO:50.145579;-96.867896 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=425 Eveline Street \, Selki rk\, MB\, R1A 2J5\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Selkirk Friendship C entre:geo:50.145579,-96.867896 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Winnipeg X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Winnipeg BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR