Guest Speakers

LORETTA TODD

Panelist
Filmmaker ~ Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Loretta Sarah Todd is an internationally acclaimed director and writer known for her powerful, visual storytelling. Her films have screened world-wide, including at the Sundance Festival, American Indian Film Festival, Yamagata Documentary Festival and the Museum of Modern Art  - to name a few. She has received many prestigious honours, including a Rockefeller Fellowship to New York University and attendance at the Sundance Scriptwriter’s Lab, plus awards and citations from notable events such as the Hot Docs Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.
 
Among Loretta's credits are the documentary Today is a Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George, and productions with the National Film Board of Canada, including Forgotten Warriors, Hands of History and The Learning Path. Her most recent film is entitled Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa - The People Go On, and deals with issues of repatriation in an innovative, experimental manner.

She is much in demand as a writer and lecturer on Aboriginal issues in the arts and media, having lectured at such important institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the American Indian and the World Cultures Department of UCLA.

Recently, Ms. Todd created the Aboriginal Media Lab, a partnership with First Nations Studies Department at the University of BC and the Chief Dan George Centre at Simon Fraser University.