On this episode of Face to Face: Niigaan Sinclair

Educator, author and columnist Niigaan Sinclair brings sharp insight and clear perspective to every conversation – whether it's in the classroom or on the page.

A professor in the department of Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba, Niigaan was named columnist of the year at the 2018 National Newspaper Awards for his work with the Winnipeg Free Press. His national bestseller Winipek: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre won the 2024 Governor General's Award for non-fiction.

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On this episode of Face to Face: Santee Smith

Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre, launched in 2005, now has more than a dozen productions and numerous short works attached to its name that have toured worldwide.

Smith has also become an internationally recognized leader in the performing arts, the 19th Chancellor of McMaster University and a member of the Order of Canada.

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On this episode of Face to Face: Shane Belcourt

Filmmaker Shane Belcourt's most recent documentary is Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, a documentary about an Indigenous-led occupation in Anicinabe Park over nearly 40 days in 1974.

He tells Face to Face it was an electric time in history.

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On this episode of Face to Face: Francis Baptiste

If you visit Francis Baptiste's website, the first thing you'll notice is the harsh way he describes himself as "a washed-up, divorced, recovering alcoholic and drug addict" who "tries to balance being a single father and a middle-aged musician, living under the poverty line in East Vancouver."

Baptiste says the description is a little "tongue-in-cheek" but also the reality of the life he has lived for the last decade.

Baptiste's latest album, Lived Experience in East Vancouver, was released on Oct. 24. It's his third full length and one he is particularly proud of.

One of his goals with the new music is to break down the stigma around addiction.

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On this episode of Face to Face: Julian Brave Noisecat

Months after receiving an Oscar nomination for his first feature film, Sugarcane, Julian Brave NoiseCat says the whole experience is still surreal.

On this episode of Face to Face, NoiseCat discusses the film and his debut book, We Survived the Night.

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On this episode of Face to Face: Leena Minifie

Gitxaala producer and filmmaker Leena Minifie has heard many horror stories of the discrimination Indigenous Peoples face during her more than 20 years as a journalist, film and television producer.

However, even she was taken aback by some of the things she heard while working on The Good Canadian.

Minifie co-directed the feature length documentary with Academy Award nominated director David Paperny.

The film is described in the APTN press release as "part investigation, part real-life horror story, part national reckoning."

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On this episode of Face to Face: Jennifer Wood

At the age of 13, Jennifer Wood remembers being driven to the Portage La Prairie Indian Residential School with her suitcase and not comprehending what was going on until her father said he would see her at Christmas.

She shares her story on Face to Face.

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Billy Merasty has played dozens of roles during his four decades on the screen and on the stage.

On the season finale of Face to Face, he credits his role as Roger Laughingstick on the hit comedy series Acting Good with rejuvenating his career.

Jaime Black-Morsette started the REDress project in 2010, an awareness campaign that hung empty red dresses in public places to get people talking about the MMIWG crisis.

On this episode of Face to Face, she talks about her new book on the Red Dress movement.

Reality is beginning to sink in for Tréchelle Bunn following a surreal couple of weeks that saw her wrap up her second year of law school, claim an Indspire Award and become the youngest and first female chief of Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation.