In the passage we have chosen as our epigraph, Ojibwe writer, broadcaster, and producer Jesse Wente refers to the “New Wave” of Indigenous cinema “in an effort to explain the global coalescing of Indigenous artists finding new expression in cinema over the past decade and a half.” 2 Wente is the director of film programming at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and has been heading up Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office since it was established in 2018, with the goal of providing concrete ways to support the “narrative sovereignty” 3 of Canada’s First Peoples. Jesse Wente, quoted by Aren Bergstrom in “An Indigenous New Wave of Film,” 2015 1 So you see a real global Indigenous cinema movement stretching all the way back to the ’70s, but now encompassing the New Wave that’s happening not just in Canada and not just in the States, but all over the world.” Things like film festivals where they actually gathered and saw each other’s work fed that cycle. Indigenous cinema, unlike other national cinemas-if we want to group it in there-isn’t actually bound by traditional borders because it grew rather organically all over the globe all about the same time and all the artists very much have very similar concerns and they’re doing very similar things.

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