b'ART & MEDIATHE BODY REMEMBERS WHENTHE WORLD BROKE OPENThe Body Remembers When the World Broke Open was nominated for five categories in this years Canadian Screen Awards, including a nod for Best Motion Picture. The film won Best Original Screenplay and Achievement in Directiona huge accomplishment for an Indigenous film on a national stage. Shot on beautiful 16mm film, co-directors Elle-Mij Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn tell a story about two Indigenous women from vastly different backgrounds colliding as one of them flees a violent domestic attack. As the film progresses in real time, the womens shared cultural experience weaves a fragile bond between them. LITERATURECROW WINTERCrow Winter is the debut novel by Karen McBride, an Algonquin Anishinaabe writer from the Timiskaming First Nation. Following the loss of her father, Hazel returns to Spirit Bear Point First Nation reserve to be with her mother and to reconcile her grief. But an encounter with a pesky old crowwho might be the Algonquin demigod Nanabushleads her to discover an old magic awakening in the quarry on her fathers land.Crow Winter has been shortlisted for The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and CBC Books named McBride a 2020 writer to watch. Critics have called it a page-turner and full of spirit, love, mystery and BONE BLACK good medicine that stays with the reader long after you have Carol Rose GoldenEagle (previously Carol Daniels)turned that last page.is the author of Bone Black, a dark detective story around the theme of missing and murdered Indigenous women with a strong, uncompromising and devotedI WILL SEE YOU AGAINFirst Nations woman as the lead. Wren StrongEagleAuthor and artist Lisa Boivin, a is devastated when her twin sister mysteriouslymember of the Deninu Kue First disappears. When Wrens missingNation currently studying Indigenous persons report with the localhealth care challenges, creates a fresh police is dismissed, she begins herunderstanding of death and grief own investigation for justice. (Publishers Weekly) through digital GoldenEagle also wrote the novelpaintings and a simple narrative in Bearskin Diary, winner of theher new book I Will See You Again. Aboriginal Literature AwardThe plot revolves around the narrator for 2017 and finalist for threewho learns of the death of her brother Saskatchewan Book Awards inoverseas and embarks on a journey 2016. Her first book of poetry,to bring him home. She finds comfort Hiraeth, was shortlisted for aand strength through memories and Saskatchewan Book Awarddreams of all they shared together in 2019. and through her Dene traditions.CHASING PAINTED HORSESChasing Painted Horses is another hilarious yarn from the countrys favourite blue-eyed Indian, Drew Hayden Taylor, who has spent the last two decades writing about and documenting the Indigenous experience.One day, Ralph and Shelleys mother installs a chalkboard in the kitchen. She starts a weekly drawing contest between her children and their friends, at the end of which therell be a vote to decide the best artwork. Danielle, a small and quiet girl from school, ultimately wins the contest by drawing a breathtakingly beautiful horse. The novel takes a magical twist from here on out, whisking the reader on a merry-go-round in a vibrant world created by the fearless Curve Lake writer.www.afn.ca 81'