Kaila Johnston

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  • Director of Education, Outreach, and Public Programming, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, University of Manitoba
‘Slash/Back,’ directed by Nyla Innuksuk, follows a group of Inuit girls who fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town. (Mixtape SB Productions Inc.)

‘Decolonizing Lens’: Winnipeg and virtual film series reflects the beauty of Indigenous worldviews

Jocelyn Thorpe, University of Manitoba and Kaila Johnston, University of Manitoba

The Winnipeg-based series has screened over 100 films in multiple genres by Indigenous filmmakers, and brings filmmakers together with audiences as a form of public education.
‘Stories Are In Our Bones’ sees filmmaker Janine Windolph take her young sons fishing with their kokum, a residential school survivor who retains a deep knowledge and memory of the land. (Stories Are In Our Bones/National Film Board)

More than entertainment: Indigenous women are teaching through filmmaking

Jocelyn Thorpe, University of Manitoba and Kaila Johnston, University of Manitoba

Indigenous filmmakers are changing the world by telling their own stories in their own ways.