Indigenous Filmmakers Series with Lindsay McIntyre: Film and/as Material Practice

Join the Film Studies Program for a talk with Lindsay McIntyre as part of the Indigenous Filmmakers Series. McIntyre will screen several films during the talk.

Lindsay McIntyre is a filmmaker and artist of Inuit and settler descent with a process-based analogue practice which deals with themes of portraiture, place, and personal histories. Her film works are a collaboration with material and integrate form and content. Her current project Tuktuit incorporates processing caribou hide to make handmade silver gelatin emulsion. Lindsay is a fellow of Forge Projects (2024), Sundance Institute (2024) and COUSIN Collective (2022). Her short film NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (2023) won Best Short Live Action Film at imagineNATIVE, the EDA Award at Whistler and is nominated for consideration to the 2025 Academy Awards. Her first feature The Words We Can’t Speak (in development) won the Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award ($250K). Her 40+ 16mm films and expanded cinema performances have been seen around the world and can be found in several permanent collections. She has an MFA in Film Production from Concordia and is an associate professor of film and screen arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish territories.

Sponsored by the Film Studies Program and the School of Arts & Sciences.