Episode 71 with Amanda Roy

This week we welcome Amandan Roy

 

Amanda Roy is Anishinaabe from the community of Buzwah (Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island). She has worked with the National Film Board as an Associate Producer for their Hothouse Animation Apprenticeship program and currently is an Associate Producer for the Quebec-Atlantic English studio. She has worked on various Indigenous productions (film, tv, and digital media projects) that have screened worldwide. She spent several years living in Northern Quebec assisting secondary students with learning video game production while travelling amongst several communities supporting the Cree Syllabics Virtual Reality Project-a program for learning Cree syllabics in an immersive and interactive virtual environment. Amanda is also a Hnatyshyn Foundation Reveal Indigenous Art Award Laureate and a Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Fellow. Her work has exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute, the Berkeley Art Center, and the Royal Alberta Museum, amongst others.

Azhinoowamaa’idim (It is shown)

https://www.baca.ca/en/galerie-shekon/amanda-roy-azhinoowamaaidim/