Singing Back the Buffalo - Film Screening and Director Q&A
Bowland Auditorium BS/005, Berrick Saul Building, 6pm-8.30pm
Presented by the Native Spirit Foundation and the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies (University of York). Part of the 19th Native Spirit Film Festival www.nativespiritfoundation.org
The film screening will start at 6.15pm
There will be an online Q&A with director Tasha Hubbard after the film screening
Singing Back the Buffalo, dir. Tasha Hubbard
2024 / 1h38m / Canada / English
After a dark recent history, the buffalo herds of North America are awaiting their return, aided by dedicated Indigenous activists, leaders and communities, including award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard (nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up). Together with Blackfoot Elder Leroy Little Bear, Hubbard weaves an intimate story of humanity’s connections to buffalo and eloquently reveals how their return to the Great Plains can usher in a new era of sustainability and balance.
Hubbard explores the challenges faced by buffalo allies and shares the positive steps already taken towards the ultimate – but uncertain – goal of buffalo rematriation. Richly visualised and deeply uplifting, Singing Back the Buffalo is an epic reimagining of North America through the lens of buffalo consciousness and a potent dream of what is within our grasp.
Singing Back the Buffalo is written and directed by Hubbard and produced by Hubbard, Jason Ryle (Amplify), George Hupka (nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, Obmin, On the Edge), associate produced by Marie-Eve Marchand (Iniskim), and executive produced by Bonnie Thompson (The Secret Society, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up). It is produced in association with CBC and APTN and with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, the Indigenous Screen Office and Telefilm Canada, with the assistance of the Government of Alberta, the participation of the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and Rogers Documentary Fund, as well as fiscal sponsorship provided by Redford Center.
Tasha Hubbard (Cree) is an award-winning filmmaker, buffalo academic and buffalo activist.
