The Montreal-based Mi’kmaq writer-director says he has many things in the works but, as he tweeted this week, the one big project he had high hopes for "got shot down" and he's trying to figure out what the industry wants.
"I'm almost an institution unto myself in the sense that my stories are particular to my tribe. And I think it's hard sometimes to apply that to a more general audience," Barnaby, who also gained acclaim with his 2013 debut feature "Rhymes for Young Ghouls," said this week by phone.
"So I think, to a certain extent, nobody knows what to do with me. They don't know how to plug-and-play an auteur filmmaker that writes Mi'kmaq stories. So it's kind of hard to fault the industry, because they don't know what they're doing, to be frank. And nobody can tell them, because nobody's done it yet. Nobody's figured it out."