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Night Raiders director Danis Goulet on why setting Indigenious stories in the future is activism

by Radheyan Simonpillai

Night Raiders director Danis Goulet on why setting Indigenious stories in the future is activism, Mar 2, 2021, pp. 1-6

Now Toronto, 2021

In this article, Simonpillai provides us with a brief discussion with Night Raiders director Danis Goulet and other Indigenous filmmakers. It discusses how Indigenous filmmakers/storytellers take on Canada's genocidal history through their films and fight for their own values, with a focus on Goulet's dystopian residential-school allegory Night Raiders, just following its world premiere at the 2021 Berlinale.

ITEM 2021.006 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Night RaidersDanis Goulet

Blood QuantumJeff Barnaby

Slash/BackNyla Innuksuk

The Marrow ThievesCherie Dimaline

Taika Waititi