Indigenizing the Film Industry with Leena Minifie
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Leena Minifie, a member of the KitKatla nation, is a Vancouver-based film, television producer and film release strategist whose work includes: LILY GLADSTONE: FAR OUT THERE (from PBS); BONES OF CROWS (from CBC &APTN); BRITISH COLUMBIA - AN UNTOLD HISTORY (from Knowledge Network); THE RECKONING: SECRETS UNEARTHED about residential schools (from CBC’s 5th Estate) and producing the interactive piece SENSE OF HOME (which took home Best New Media at ImagineNative in 2012), and ‘THE CAVE’ (official selection at Sundance Festival in 2011 and was TIFF Top Ten in 2011). Her company Stories First strategically marketed INDIAN HORSE, THE GRIZZLIES, MONKEY BEACH, THE NEW CORPORATION, NIGHT RAIDERS, and RUN WOMAN RUN.
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