INDIGENOUS FILM SUMMIT
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    • Opening Remarks and Partner Presentations
    • Indigenizing Social Media in 60 Seconds or Less: ​a TikTok Discussion
    • Indigenous Writers Panel
    • Diversity, Representation, & Inclusion: ​What Does It Mean In 2020?
    • One on One with Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
    • Rising Indigenous Storytellers
    • Self-care and Wellness In Film
    • Changing The Colonial Mindset On An Indigenous Film Set
    • Indigenous Peoples In Genre & Pop Culture
    • Indigenous Storytelling Through Independent Film
    • Rising Indigenous Producers
    • Script To Screen: A Producers Journey
    • Indigenous Filmmaking, Post COVID
    • Wonder Women: Indigenous Women in Film
    • One on One with Massey Whiteknife (ICEIS Rain)
    • Just Acting All Deadly: Indigenous Actors In The Industry
    • One on One with Gary “Litefoot” Davis
    • 2020 Partner Presentation
    • 2020 Online Indigenous Film Summit
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Indigenous Film Summit Moderator

Jesse Wente​

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Jesse Wente is an Ojibwe writer, broadcaster, producer and speaker. Born and raised in Toronto, his family hails from Chicago and the Serpent River First Nation.

Jesse is best known 
for his 22 years as a columnist for CBC Radio’s Metro Morning, Jesse spent 11 years with the
Toronto International Film Festival, the last seven as the Head of TIFF Cinematheque. Jesse is currently co-producing his first film, a screen adaptation of Thomas King’s best-selling book, The Inconvenient Indian.

An outspoken advocate for Indigenous rights and First Nations, Metis 
and Inuit art, he has spoken at the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples, Smithsonian’s
National Museum of the American Indian, the Canadian Arts Summit and numerous Universities and Colleges.

Jesse currently serves on the board of directors for the Canada Council for the 
Arts and the Toronto Arts Council and was recently named the inaugural recipient of the
Reelworld Film Festival’s Reel Activist Award. Jesse just started a new role as the first Director of the Indigenous Screen Office in Canada.

https://twitter.com/screen_office

https://iso-bea.ca/


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  • Home
  • 2020 Schedule
    • Opening Remarks and Partner Presentations
    • Indigenizing Social Media in 60 Seconds or Less: ​a TikTok Discussion
    • Indigenous Writers Panel
    • Diversity, Representation, & Inclusion: ​What Does It Mean In 2020?
    • One on One with Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
    • Rising Indigenous Storytellers
    • Self-care and Wellness In Film
    • Changing The Colonial Mindset On An Indigenous Film Set
    • Indigenous Peoples In Genre & Pop Culture
    • Indigenous Storytelling Through Independent Film
    • Rising Indigenous Producers
    • Script To Screen: A Producers Journey
    • Indigenous Filmmaking, Post COVID
    • Wonder Women: Indigenous Women in Film
    • One on One with Massey Whiteknife (ICEIS Rain)
    • Just Acting All Deadly: Indigenous Actors In The Industry
    • One on One with Gary “Litefoot” Davis
    • 2020 Partner Presentation
    • 2020 Online Indigenous Film Summit
  • About
  • Archive