Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel winning film awards

Amazing news from one of our long-time partners, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel: Her documentary, Kanàtenhs: When the Pine Needles Fall, has achieved several major awards!

The honours include being Selected at the American Indian Film Festival 2022, an Honourable Mention at the Tokyo Film Awards 2022, and an award winner at the LA Independent Women Film Awards 2022, the Melbourne Independent Film Festival 2022, and the Sydney Indie Short Film Festival 2023!

Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel at Doc NYC film festival

CFSC has been a proud supporter of Ellen’s film festival travel through our Reconciliation Fund.

This isn’t the first time we’ve written about Ellen’s filmmaking and we can’t wait to see what she does next!