Land Acknowledgments are just one part of working to be in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples. We at ReFrame Film Festival recognize that Land Acknowledgments can easily become empty practices if we do not engage with them thoughtfully and consistently.
ReFrame Film Festival occupies many places through our programming each year. We are also fortunate to exist in the space of community with each and every one of you. With this in mind, we can not begin to adequately represent the many places ReFrame Film Festival inhabits, without your voices, and we would love to hear from you!
We are looking for submissions – (video, photos and text) which reflect on places within the treaty and traditional territories of the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg to be included in a video that will be presented during ReFrame’s 2025 festival.
Using contributions from many people, we hope to include a diversity of viewpoints, prioritizing a sense of collectivity within the context of land and highlighting the many different relationships that each of us has with these lands and waters, with treaties, and with the people who live here. We also hope that this will create an opportunity for personal reflection on the relationship you have with making Land Acknowledgments.
In the spirit of community, we would like to invite you to reflect on making a personal Land Acknowledgment practice, and would love to hear from you about your practices of acknowledging these lands and waters, and commitment to reconciliation. We hope to make a Land Acknowledgment video that inspires action and change. This project is as much about creating a thoughtful Land Acknowledgment as it is about encouraging us all to engage in acknowledging this land and our colonial history beyond a script.
Below are some questions to help you begin engaging with this proposal. Creating a video, photo or text response to these questions is a great way to engage in this opportunity.
What history has led you to the land and territory upon which you reside?
How do you engage with decolonizing/uncolonizing practices?
What ways are you, or might you become, in solidarity with Indigenous communities?
Which places are you connected to and why?
Please submit video, photographs, and/or text reflecting on your answers, your process of exploring what Land Acknowledgement means to you, or how you bring the practice into your daily life. For more information, or if you are experiencing barriers to participation, please contact
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This project was led by Hannah McCammon
Hannah McCammon is a Cultural Studies student at Trent University who is currently interning with ReFrame Film Festival. A poet and filmmaker from Tkaronto/Toronto, she draws inspiration for her art from the urban environment of her upbringing. Her work explores place and land as sites where the personal and the political intersect. She is excited to be involved in this project and to continue participating in acts of solidarity with Indigenous Peoples.