Collective Resistance
Director Isak Vaillancourt
Producer: Isak Vaillancourt & Ra’anaa Yaminah Ekundayo
Cast: Ravyn Ariah Wngz & Shanese Indoowaaboo Steele
Cinematographer, Audio-Engineer & Editor: Shawn Kosmerly / Here Here Kitty Productions
Production Manager: Riley McEwen
Community Partners: Roxanne Langermann & Rotary Club of Sudbury
Filmed on Location: Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism, Tkaronto (Toronto, ON) & Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tkaronto (Toronto, ON)
2020 | Independent Initiative
Told from the perspectives of 2SLGBTQ+ Afro-Indigenous leaders and activists, this short documentary intends to reimagine new possibilities for relationships between Blackness and Indigeneity, which is rooted in solidarity and joy. In what we now call Canada, race relations are often viewed through a framework of Indigenous and European-settler binaries. Collective Resistance seeks to shift the focus and explore Black and Indigenous relations through a lens of social justice and radical kinship.
This film was supported by the Rising Youth Grant & Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).
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Exposures Trans Film Festival, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal, QC)– Official Selection, 2025
Activists Without Borders Film Festival, London, UK – Official Selection, 2023
Queer Voices | New York City Film Festival, New York, NY – Official Selection, 2023
Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, Ottawa, ON – Official Selection, 2023
Stamped Film Festival, Pensacola, FL – Official Selection, 2023
Reel East Texas Film Festival, Kilgore, TX – Official Selection, 2023
Nawada International Film Festival, India, South Asia – Best Documentary Film, 2023
Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, Tkaronto (Toronto, ON) – Official Selection, 2023