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February 2009
 Darryl
Nepinak (Seaulteux) is the film and video coordinator
for Career Trek, a college preparatory program for at-risk youth
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is a production training coordinator
for the Winnipeg Film Group. Nepinak is the co-founder of Indie'N
Film/Video Collective in Winnipeg, Manitoba and the treasurer
of Urban Shaman Gallery, an aboriginal arts center. His recent
short film, Zwei Indianer Aus Winnipeg, commissioned by
the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, was selected for
the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival. In 2006 Nepinak curated
INDIANPEG: Shorts from Winnipeg Aboriginal Filmmakers for the
Gimli Film Festival in Manitoba. In 2005 he was selected to take
part in the National Film Board of Canada's First Stories, a competitive
documentary production program for First Nations filmmakers. Nepinak
lived in Gisborne, New Zealand for 10 months in 2004, where he
directed a documentary about the 30-year history of Te Ora Hou
Aotearoa, a Maori youth organization, and mentored Maori teens
in video production. Nepinak received training in video production
with the Aboriginal Youth Pilot Project of Canada's National Screen
Institute and the Aboriginal Broadcasting Training Initiative
of the Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre. He lives in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, the city where he grew up.
Screened by NMAI
Image credits:
Darryl Nepinak - photograph by Tony Nardella, courtesy of National
Film Board of Canada; My Indian Name - courtesy of National
Film Board of Canada
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