Northern Film Initiative

Please take a moment to watch the youth film ‘Colouring the City’ and give it a like on YouTube. Your support helps uplift our incredible local Indigenous youth filmmakers and brings them one step closer to attending the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Thank you for cheering them on! 🙏🏼💗

Directed and written by M'taya Bradford-Gear (age 20), Ace Bradford-Gear (age 15), Adam Hill (age 18), Samantha Saksagiak (age 21), Julia Dicker (age 15), McCaiah Budgell (age 15). Filmed in St. John's, Newfoundland during an Indigenous Youth Filmmaking Workshop as part of the 2025 imagineNATIVE Tour.

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imagineNATIVE presents the world’s largest Indigenous film festival. The Festival was founded to support the diverse, contemporary work of Indigenous directors, producers and screenwriters working in film, video, audio and digital media.

Colouring the City Directed and written by M'taya Bradford-Gear (age 20), Ace Bradford-Gear (age 15), Adam Hill (age 18), Samantha Saksagiak (age 21), Julia Dicker (age 15), Mc...