Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith is an award-winning Métis filmmaker, media artist and educator born and raised in St. James, Manitoba. She is a founding member of the Dawson First Peoples Initiative, Indigenous Education Council and Intercollegiate Decolonizing Network and teaches Cinema-Communications at Dawson College. She has directed and produced numerous documentary films and interactive media. She uses diverse media and participatory strategies to explore issues around Indigenous identity and resurgence, self-determined education and intercultural experience. Her first experimental documentary, Buried Traces (2008), deals with the question of métis identity, while the documentary series she co-directed, Finding Our Talk, addresses the current state of Indigenous languages in the world.
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determiNATION songs
In determiNATION songs three Indigenous artists (CerAmony, Cheri Maracle and Samian) use voice, rhythms, samples and guitar riffs to cut through big ‘P’ politics in order to reveal a vibrant native music scene while exposing the realities and struggles of their communities. As resistance grows across these Indigenous lands, this film about music, art and politics pulls First Nations stories fro...
determiNATION songs
In determiNATION songs three Indigenous artists (CerAmony, Cheri Maracle and Samian) use voice, rhythms, samples and guitar riffs to cut through big ‘P’ politics in order to reveal a vibrant native music scene while exposing the realities and struggles of their communities. As resistance grows across these Indigenous lands, this film about music, art and politics pulls First Nations stories fro...
