Utu / The Indian Raid introduced by Jason Ryle

Approx. Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes

TIFF Cinematheque - Retrospective

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The Executive Director of the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival introduces the historical epic from New Zealand.

Guest Biography

    • Jason Ryle is the Executive Director at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the world's largest Indigenous film festival. Jason oversees all aspects of the organization including programming, operations, finance, and the annual Festival. He sits on the Board of Directors for Vtape, an independent video distributor, and is a script reader for The Harold Greenberg Fund, which provides financial aid to Canadian filmmakers. As an award-winning writer, Jason has written for the Smithsonian Institution and numerous publications throughout North America.

Films in Utu / The Indian Raid introduced by Jason Ryle

    • The Indian Raid
    • James Young Deer

    • An early silent short by James Young Deer, believed by many to be the very first First Peoples filmmaker.

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    • Utu
    • Geoff Murphy

    • A Maori soldier turns rebel after his village is massacred by British troops, leading a guerrilla band in a series of bloody raids against white settlers.

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