Adrienne Kaye is a 3rd Year Film Production (BFA) student at the University of Regina. As an Indigenous filmmaker, she aims to bring awareness to the many issues that Indigenous peoples face. Ethical Indigenous representation means the world to her. She enjoys film photography and crochet in her free time.

An Ojibwe, Metis, Polish and Ukrainian filmmaker who identifies as Two-Spirited,
Amanda Kindzierski has written, produced, directed and edited over 20 films that have played in local, regional or international film festivals. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she also teaches filmmaking to children and adults for schools and community organizations. “Being a Native Canadian and an out lesbian are very important aspects of my life and therefore feature heavily in my work making films and teaching.”

Amanda Smart (Mino-wasi-qi-mook) is Red River Metis Anishinaabe Ancestry from the Sturgeon Clan. Amanda studied Fine Arts in Art History at the University of Manitoba and Film Studies at The National
Screen Institute.

As a multidisciplinary commissioned visual artist, Amanda works primarily in Conte, paint, charcoal, ink, metal and over the last two decades, she has worked in live theatre as a Stage Manager, Technical Director, Production Manager and Scenic Artist. Amanda is a Production Coordinator, Assistant Director and most recently, Extras Casting in the motion picture industry on an international level.

Amanda is devoted to healing through traditional Anishinaabe Spirituality including ceremonial fasting, pilgrimages, and the healing power of the natural world. Much of Amanda’s work reflects these journeys as well as Indigenous rights and political freedoms.

Bawaadan Collective was formalized in the Spring of 2019, we worked co-operatively together to create the short film Midland Motel Room 77′. Utilizing close friend and familial ties, we quickly began to self-produce our own Indigenous content. Modern, contemporary content. As the scale and scope of each project grew, we continued to explore and expand our membership to incorporate new skills and relationships. Each new member brought on board has been an asset to each of the projects, and continues to support our future work. 

We are currently working to further formalize our structure, moving to reflect the more traditional ‘flat’ structures of our communities past. Each member of the collective and has independently had personal successes in the music, visual arts, film, media arts, fashion, craft and theatre arts fields. Additionally, several members have experience with academic and administrative foci and have been able to assist in the on-going coordination of our business practices

Born in Teslin, Yukon, of the Inland Tlingit people, Carol Geddes’ first major film, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, won a Silver Medal for Educational Documentary in San Francisco and set her on an award-winning career in the industry. Since then Geddes, a now internationally acclaimed filmmaker and writer, has produced 25 documentary films and television programs. Her second major film, Picturing A People, won an Outstanding Achievement Award and a Gemini nomination for the Best Canadian Documentary in 1997.

Whether writing, producing or directing, her prolific output has highlighted the stories and struggles of Aboriginal life in Canada. Her latest film, the animation Two Winters: Tales From Above the Earth won nine national and international awards. In 2002, Geddes was the recipient of the Queen’s Royal Jubilee Medal for her outstanding contributions to the cultural community. She has served on the Teslin Tlingit Council; The Yukon Heritage Resources Board; the Canadian Council for the Arts; the Yukon Human Rights Commission; the Canadian Conference of the Arts; the National Film Board of Canada; and the Women in Media Foundation.

Geddes is the writer, director, producer of the award-winning series Anash and the Legacy of the Sun-Rock (APTN, ACCESS and SCN Canada), a half-hour children’s quest series that tells the compelling tale of young Anash’s mission as he tries to re-unite all parts of the Sun-Rock in order to fulfill a prophecy to attain peace and protect a fragile land.

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Christine Kirouac is a Winnipeg-based artist/writer whose interdisciplinary projects are a negotiation of (dis)placement, (non)acceptance. She crafts provocative work through a lens of humor, personal intimacy and experience that exposes struggles to translate home. Alluring, absurd, and always open-ended Kirouac prefers the uncomfortable tease to the whole, leaving a trail of impressions and questions to linger.

Along with teaching in Canada and the US, she has participated in multiple residencies at the Banff Centre, Vermont Studio Centre and received numerous grants from Manitoba Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and National Film Board. From 2013-2015 she was co-owner, Director/Curator of the boutique art fair New Material concurrent with Miami Art Basel, Verge Soho New York NY and Multiples; Critical Craft and Visual Culture Fair out of Chicago IL.

Solo exhibitions include The Same Leaving at the South Eastern Center for Contemporary Arts in NC, Belfast NI Billboard Project NI, Toronto Ireland Park Foundation video commission, Paper Men Project at The Delta Gallery Winston-Salem NC, Siren Fall at Winthrop University Gallery Rock Hill SC, After Winter, Before Spring at Maison Des Artistes Visuals in Winnipeg.

Group shows and screenings include Winnipeg Art Gallery, Museum London ON, INDA Lisbon International Film Festival Portugal, 4th Cairo International Video Festival Egypt, Global House Gwang Ju South Korea, Heritage International Film Program; Berlin, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Presénce Autochtone: First Peoples’ Festival, Montréal, QC and Asheville Art Museum NC and Manifest; Research and Drawing Center in Cincinnati OH USA. Her video Nectarine will premier with Harbour Collective at Docked in SASK 2023.

Kirouac works out of her Winnipeg studio, writing, making and is a member of the Point Douglas Environment Committee spearheading new approaches to challenges of the shelterless and the plight of Red River she lives near.

David Garneau’s (Métis) practice includes painting, curation, and critical writing. His artistic, curatorial, and critical work often concerns Indigenous contemporary identities, and Métis culture. Garneau has recently given keynote talks and co-curated exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Canada. His art works are in numerous public and private collections.

Gavin Baird is an independent filmmaker based in Saskatoon, SK. He is the writer/director of Four in a Blanket, Begonia, and his latest feature-film The Caring Only Cry at Night.

Howard Adler is the co-founder/director/programmer for the Asinabka Festival, an annual Indigenous film and media arts festival in Ottawa. Howard has a bachelor of arts in Indigenous Studies from Trent University, and a master of arts in Canadian Studies from Carleton University. Howard’s film, video and art, have been exhibited in gallery settings, broadcast nationally, shown on airplanes, featured on CBC Gem, and shown extensively at film festivals both in Canada and internationally. His art practice is diverse and includes visual art, meme-making, stained glass, beadwork, VJ’ing, video projection mapping, and experimental and documentary filmmaking.  He often works as a freelancer or on a contract basis in various capacities, including film and video production, as a university instructor, a guest speaker, a workshop instructor, or leading art making classes for youth. Howard’s pronouns are he/him, he is Two-Spirit, Jewish and Anishinaabe, and a member of Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation in North-Western Ontario.

JL Whitecrow is an artist and filmmaker based out of Toronto, ON, She is Muskrat clan originally from Seine River First Nation, Treaty #3. JL studied Philosophy and Indigenous Community Development before pursuing an MFA in Film Production at York University. She is a SSHRC recipient for her graduate studies and works as a Producer/Associate Producer for various film and television projects. JL enjoys creating film works in alternative cinema, hybrid fiction, documentary, comedy, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.

Marjorie Beaucage is a Two-Spirit Métis Auntie, filmmaker, art-ivist and educator, a land protector and a water walker. Born in Vassar, Manitoba, to a large Métis family, Marjorie’s life’s work has been about creating social change, working to give people the tools for creating possibilities and right relations. She has been a Grandmother for Walking With Our Sisters; the Elder for OUT Saskatoon; and the Elder-In-Residence for the University of Saskatchewan Student Union. As a current Board Member of Chokecherry Studios, she is giving back to future art-ivists as they stand up for themselves and their community through art, songs, writing…creating possibilities of wellness with ceremony and story medicine.

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Mark Dieter is a Canadian First Nations playwright, actor, and director with 19 written stage plays to date, 11 of which have been produced. A Path of Ghosts and Warriors takes place in the same community as the previous Equity-produced play RRAP (2005). Mark has also written for radio, and has a screenplay in pre-production development titled Loaded. Currently, Mark is working on thirteen-part 2D motion comic web-series called “Kevin Stone”.

Rihkee Strapp entered the world from a sea of blood, fully grown wearing a gold set of armour. They are an Ayakwew Red River Metis multi-disciplinary artist raised in Northern Ontario by nohkum’s dial-up internet and its dark vistas. Rihkee is an alumni of the Studio [Y] systems leadership fellowship at the MaRS Discovery District. Their highly collaborative work re-appropriates pop-culture, myth and nostalgia, playing with concepts of time and technology often using humour and character to animate their ideas.

Simon Ash-Moccasin is a proud Nehiyawak (Cree person) from Saulteaux First Nation and an actor, playwright, storyteller, activist, and father.

Tianna Delorme (She/Her) is nêhiyaw from Cowessess First Nation. Tianna is in her 4th year at University of Regina pursuing a major in Bachelor of Fine Arts. She currently works as an art instructor for mâmawêyatitân centre, teaching art to youth. Her practice consists of works that express emotions and connection to the viewer, while having Indigenous themes. Her goal is to become an established artist and to mentor youth from Cowessess First Nation that aspire to be artists.

Tim Myles is a writer, director and actor. He began his career directing music videos for various labels such as Universal Music and Island Records. His debut short film Little Bird, was made in partnership with imagineNATIVE and Netflix Canada, and premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was nominated for an IMDBPro award for best Canadian short film at TIFF. It was named one of ’10 must see Indigenous Films’ during the festival, and Tim was named one of the ‘10 Indigenous Artists in Toronto you should know’ by Blog TO in 2021. His most recent work was second unit directing a spot for Lululemon X Team Canada, which premiered at the 2022 Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing. You can see him in the upcoming Keifer Sutherland crime drama Rabbit Hole, Warner Brothers upcoming biopic series Borje, and the Lifetime thriller Maid to Kill. He is represented by Amanda Rosenthal Talent Agency in Canada.

Tristin Greyeyes is Nehiyaw and Anishinaabe from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. A lifelong learner, Tristin holds a certificate in Media Arts Production, a diploma in Indigenous Independent Digital Filmmaking and a bachelor’s degree in motion picture arts at Capilano University . She is interested in intersectional feminism, Land Back and is determined to empower Indigenous voices across Turtle Island through the art of filmmaking.

Troy Isnana is based in Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation, and is a former film student of the University of Regina. Troy is a voracious reader. He is also a fan of Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa.