Mi'kmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, regarded by many as a visionary of modern Indigenous cinema with projects that included magic realism, horror and sharp social critique, has died.
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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.
Director Jeff Barnaby is pictured as he promotes the film Blood Quantum at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Barnaby is a visionary in the filmmaking world — so much so that it seems the industry is still trying to figure out where he fits, he says. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
TORONTO – Jeff Barnaby is a visionary in the filmmaking world – so much so that it seems the industry is still trying to figure out where he fits, he says.
His Indigenous zombie horror “Blood Quantum” is the leading film contender for next week’s Canadian Screen Awards with 10 nominations, including best editing and screenplay for Barnaby. And yet he says he’s struggling to land his next project.