The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology are proud to announce Dibaajimo / Tells a Story, a new curated film series to coincide with a new Indigenous Film Course (WGST 3P79) taught by Assistant Professor Dr. Lyn Trudeau. To expand the potential reach and impact of her course, Dr. Trudeau has teamed up with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre’s programming team to curate a selection of titles covered in the course.
Dr. Lyn Trudeau is from Sagamok Anishinawbek First Nation, Eagle Clan. She is cross-appointed with Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology and affiliated with the Social Justice and Equity Program in which her work embodies a decolonial lens. This includes previous work/research with Elders, Indigenous youth, Indigenous teacher candidates, and residential schools. She feels it is important to honour her cultural background; therefore, embeds Indigenous knowledge and ways of being in her classrooms and research endeavours.
Boy (2010) is the fourth film in the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story film series. Written and directed by Māori and Jewish filmmaker Taika Waititi, Boy tells the story of Boy (James Rolleston), an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984. Boy gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father (Waititi), who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
Saturday, April 5, 2025, at 3:00pm
FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, ON
This event has reserved setting. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for Film House members. Visit the Dibaajimo / Tells a Story Film Series page at the Performing Arts Centre website to purchase a ticket and for details on all films in the series. Click here to read, download, or share the Press Release for this event.
Presented by The Film House and Brock University’s Centre for Women and Gender Studies and Department of Sociology.
Learn more about the films in the series below: