Canada's sixth annual imagineNATIVE Film and MediaArts festival, held October 19-23 in Toronto, Canada, featured more than 100 indigenous films from India, Brazil, the United States, Mexico, and Australia, among other countries. The schedule included short and feature-length films and documentaries, radio programs, music videos, and art installations, as well as free media arts workshops in the mornings. Filmmaker Kevin Burton received the Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Emerging Talent and a $1,000 cash prize for his film Meskanahk, a Cree film dealing with a "half-breed's" journey of discovery. The festival's closing film, Trudell, an American film about Lakota activist John Trudell, debuted earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. ImagineNATIVE's next annual film festival will take place in October 2006.
