Grace Mathisen
Skoden Festival directors talk reconciliation, community engagement, and the festival’s first year
Peak Web May 27, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Skoden is a one day Indigenous Film Festival happening Saturday, June 1 at SFU Woodwards. Skoden, an Indigenous slang term for “let’s go then”, promises to showcase Indigenous filmmaking in BC and to foster conversations about reconciliation and what it really means. In anticipation for their inaugural festival, I interviewed Carr Sappier (Wolastoqiyik) and Grace Mathisen, the festival’s directors and former SFU film students, over email about how the festival got started and why SFU needs it. Alison Wick: When/how did you come up with the idea of an Indigenous film showcase at SFU? Was…
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Skoden Indigenous Film festival promises to showcase some of the best in cinema
Peak Web May 25, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Update: An earlier version of this article, including the printed version, included a mistake that the festival is on Friday, June 1. The correct date is Saturday, June 1. This has been changed in the…
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