March 2009
 Janelle Wookey (Métis) is an on air personality for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. She co-hosts “Friday Night Flick,” a film program featuring trivia between segments. In 2008 for her short film Mémère Métisse, she was the recipient of the Emerging Talent Award at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Also in 2008 Wookey received a diploma from Red River College in creative communications as a television broadcast major.
“Storytelling has been a key ingredient of Native culture for centuries. Today, that tradition is carried on mainly through film, a medium of great importance to this culture. As masters in the art of storytelling, Natives have produced films that have had a great effect on many people—films that have worked both to create awareness of the challenges they face, and to empower, inspire pride, action and support for the Native community.”
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Janelle Wookey - courtesy of the filmmaker
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