Canadian Images in Conversation

What better way to spend a rainy evening then by watching some great films! Theres still time to make it down to Market Hall to join us for our screening this evening.

Thank you to the Peterborough Examiner for featuring tonight's screening in your Town Ward column! Check it out using the link below.

Our screening has been included in the film column of The Wire Magazine's March 2020 issue! Check out the link below to read the issue.

Our free screening and artist talk featuring the early works of Shelley Niro is happening TOMORROW (March 3) at Market Hall from 7-9:30PM! We will be screening two of Shelley Niro's films on 16MM "It Starts With a Whisper" and "Honey Moccasin," and then moderating a discussion with her about the films and her early filmmaking career. If you've been wanting to watch more Canadian films and learn more about the people who created them, this is a great opportunity to get started...! Keep reading if you're curious to know more about each film. "It Starts With A Whisper" (1993) follows eighteen-year-old Shanna Sabbath, who is taken by her three aunts on a mythic journey to Niagara Falls where she wrestles with choices between traditional and contemporary ways of life. The film blends traditional Haudenosaunee imagery, music and themes with motifs from contemporary, secular life. A landmark film, "Honey Moccasin" (1998) is set on the fictional Grand Pine Indian Reservation (aka Reservation X) and follows the investigator/storyteller Honey Moccasin (Tantoo Cardinal), closeted drag queen/powwow clothing thief Zachery John (Billy Merasty), and the rivalry between two bars on the reservation - the Smoking Moccasin and the Inukshuk Cafe.