Ali Kazimi Screening & Seminar
Friday, January 26th, 2024
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, January 26, 2024 | 3:30PM - 6:30PM | External Event, This event was held at OCAD University, Room 190, Auditorium, 100 McCaul St, Toronto, ON, M5T 1W1 |
Description
ABOUT THE EVENT
Kazimi will show two films, Shooting Indians (1997) and Beyond Extinction (2022), that deal with the perspective of Indigeneity through an immigrant lens. Moving beyond the White Settler/Indigenous paradigm, the films open up discussions about the relationship between racialized immigrant communites and Indigenous communities, while also addressing the legacies of colonialism. Respondentsinclude: Ryan Rice, Kajri Jain, Stephen Foster, and Indu Vashist.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER Ali Kazimi (pronounced Ka-Zim-E) is filmmaker, writer, and visual artist whose work deals with race, social justice, migration, history, memory and archive. In 2019 he received the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, as well as a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa from the University of British Columbia. In 2023 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
His critically acclaimed films have been shown at festivals around the world, winning national and international honours and awards. His awards include the Donald Brittain/Gemini Award for Best Social/Political Documentary; Golden Gate Award, San Fran. Intl. Film Fest; Golden Conch, Mumbai International Film Festival; Best Director & Best Political Documentary, Hot Docs and Audience Awards for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Los Angeles Indian Film Festival. His most recent feature documentary Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence premiered at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in May 2023. The film won the People’s Choice Award at the Planet In Focus Canadian International Environmental Film Festival, and was screened as part of the prestigious Front Light program at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam
Ali Kazimi is also a Professor of Cinema & Media Arts, at the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, York University. He served as Department Chair from 2015 to 2016, and was promoted to in 2022. In 2021, Ali Kazimi was elected as a Senior Fellow at Massey College
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