EXCLUSIVE: It’s been more than 50 years since a group of young Anishinabeg activists and the Ojibway Warriors Society staged a dramatic occupation of public space in Kenora, Ontario to protest racism, police brutality, and seizure of Indigenous land. That historic event, long forgotten, is brought stirringly back to the foreground in Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising , set to make its world premiere on September 10 at the Toronto International Film Festival .

Makwa Creative Inc. announced Serial Maven Studios has boarded the documentary as international distributor ahead of the TIFF premiere. The feature “about a culture-shifting, youth-led, land-back occupation,” is written and directed by award-winning Métis filmmaker Shane Belcourt ( Tkaronto ) and co-written and produce

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