Snag Seats for the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival This Weekend – Scout Magazine

Apr 2, 2024

Spring weather is a crapshoot. And even though you may be raring to spend as much time outside as possible, so long as “April showers” are a looming threat, the safer gamble is to have some entertaining and stimulating indoor activities in your pocket for your days off. Luck just so has it that the sixth edition of the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival is going down at SFU Woodward’s Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema this weekend (April 6th and 7th)…

Co-founded in 2019 by SFU alums and now-teachers, Carr Sappier and Grace Mathisen, SIFF’s programming is primarily handled by students currently enrolled in the duo’s “Selected Topics in the Fine and Performing Arts” class at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. The Indigenous filmmakers/creatives included hail from across Canada, and have all made works encompassing the film fest’s titular vibe of “Skoden”. So what is that, exactly, and what does Skoden mean? According to the SIFF website: “Used by Indigenous communities from coast to coast to coast, Skoden is a unifying word that transcends a single language. Skoden is slang for “let’s go then”. It’s an attitude and a battle cry and we’ve decided to take it to heart.”

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