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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250225T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250225T213000
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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/wilfred-buck-open-forum/
SUMMARY:Wilfred Buck @ Open Forum
DESCRIPTION:Open Forum is a "last Tuesdays" monthly series of conversations
  exploring anti-racism\, on our screens and in our film communities. For t
 his event\, a screening of Wilfred Buck will be followed by a conversation
  between filmmakers Lisa Jackson and Danis Goulet. Intro by Archer Pechawi
 s.\n\n---\nThe film:  WILFRED BUCK Directed by Lisa Jackson (2024\, 96 mi
 ns)\n\nHe’s from the “fresh-out-of-the-bush\, partly civilized\, colon
 ized\, displaced people\,” and he’s here to take us to the stars. Lisa
  Jackson’s portrait of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck moves between earth and s
 ky\, past and present\, bringing to life ancient teachings of Indigenous a
 stronomy and cosmology to tell a story that spans generations. This hybrid
  feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck\, a ch
 arismatic and irreverent Cree Elder who overcame a harrowing yet familiar 
 history of displacement\, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral sta
 r knowledge and ceremony.\n\nBuck is humble\, profound\, funny\, always re
 al and a master storyteller. As a young man\, his community in Northern Ma
 nitoba is forcibly relocated to make way for a hydroelectric dam\, Buck’
 s family loses everything. He descends into the darkness of the city stree
 ts\, 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 internation
 ally respected star lore expert. His mission is sharing these life-changin
 g teachings—as relevant and urgent today as ever—always guided by cere
 mony and anchored in the land.\n\nAdapted from Buck’s rollicking memoir
  I Have Lived Four Lives\, director Lisa Jackson deftly interweaves verit
 é footage of Buck’s present with archival footage and cinematic\, drama
 tized scenes from his past\, painting a portrait of a beloved leader who n
 ow stands at the forefront of the resurgence of Indigenous ways of knowing
 .\n\n---\n\nWatch the trailer at https://vimeo.com/942488273\n\n---\nAbout
  Lisa Jackson:\nLisa Jackson is an Anishinaabe filmmaker whose work has ga
 rnered two Canadian Screen Awards\, been nominated for a Webby and screene
 d at top festivals including Sundance\, Tribeca\, SXSW\, Berlinale and Hot
  Docs. Her VR experience Biidaaban was viewed by more than 25\,000 people\
 , while her film Indictment won Best Doc at imagineNATIVE and is one of CB
 C’s top watched documentaries. She won the 2022 Chicken &amp\; Egg Award
  and the 2021 DOC Vanguard Award\, and has an MFA from York University.\n-
 -----------------------------------\n\n* Enter CineCycle via the green doo
 r in the alley. * All are welcome. No pre-registration is required. * Co-p
 resented by CFMDC\, VTAPE\, York's Graduate Film Student Association\, U o
 f T Cinema Studies Institute\, OCADU Art and Social Change\, TMU Creative 
 School\, York U Cinema and Media Arts and World Records.
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CATEGORIES:Free Event,Screenings,Wilfred Buck
LOCATION:CineCycle\, 129 Spadina Avenue\, Toronto\, ON\, M5A 1J7\, Canada
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