Queer Indigenous Films From Turtle Island and Beyond
| Jun 18 | 7pm | The Birdhouse |
$0 – $25, sliding scale
Join us for a night celebrating Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer excellence, with a screening of short films and music videos made by Indigenous artists from around the world!
Featuring
“Four Spirits Walk As One”
by Olly King (Cree)
“Taha, Ua”
by Ngaire Lyden-Elleray (Tongan)
“Terror/Forming”
by Rylan Friday (Saulteaux Ojibway/Plains Cree/Métis)
“Find My Way Back (feat Kee’ahn)”
by Samuel Gaskin (Māori/Nigerian)
“Áhkuin”
by Sunná Máret (Sámi)
Please join us for a Q&A with the attending artists after the screening!
Co-presented with Full Circle: First Nations Performance
ODMK (goes by Olly or Oliver) is a Cree filmmaker from James Smith Cree Nation currently living in Treaty 1 territory. Working since 2014, they are a writer, producer, actor, animator & director. Co-directing ‘CONFLUENCE’, co-producing ‘LEVERS’ & starring in ‘8th Street Menace’. ODMK is currently working on their first feature film.
Ngaire Lyden-Elleray (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker and writer. Coming from a mixed Pasifika Indigenous background, storytelling has been an integral part of their life, and they are dedicated to uplifting Indigenous and Queer voices and narratives. Born in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, on Ngāi Tahu Iwi land, Ngaire was raised in Tkaronto on the ancestral lands of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Anishnabeg, Chippewa and Mississauga of Credit. They currently live on the unceded and traditional territories of the šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ, Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ.
Rylan Friday is an award winning director, writer, producer and curator from the Cote First Nation, Saskatchewan. He has produced Portraits From a Fire, directed Terror/Forming, Musk. & The Sound of You Collapsing. Rylan has spearheaded the 2020 iteration of the VIFF’s Catalyst Mentorship Program, and curated #Indigeneity series for Reel Causes, and the Who We Are Indigenous film series with VIFF and the MOV. Currently he is in development for his directorial feature film, Terror/Rising.
Samuel Gaskin is a Māori/Nigerian artist, award-winning performer, and the founder of Beat Entertainment—a BIPOC and LGBTQI+ led company championing authentic storytelling in music and theatre. A three-time APRA PDAs finalist (Pop/Contemporary) and winner of the 2025 PAC Australia GALA Award, Gaskin has earned acclaim for his intercultural works including RECKŌNING: Te Waiata Paihere Wairua, which toured nationally following multiple Melbourne Fringe Awards. His collaborations with Kee’ahn, Yothu Yindi & The Treaty Project, and others have been featured by Triple J, COLORSXSTUDIOS, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Radio-JusSunná / Sunna Nousuniemi is a queer Sámi audiovisual artist and storyteller from Anár, Sápmi. Their artistic path emerged when they grabbed their father’s video camera in early 00’s and started documenting their daily life with their friends in Anár. In 2025, their short film ÁHKUIN received the New Voice in Storytelling Award in Toronto at imagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival. Recently, they graduated from the Sámi Education Institute as an artesan, specialized in traditional Sámi soft handicrafts. Since 2025, they have been working as the Artistic Director of Skábmagovat Indigenous Peoples’ Film Festival.
