Blood in the Snow Film Festival

06/06/2026

💫 Congratulations!

We are honoured to announce Gavin Baird, recipient of the After Dark Award in honour of Jeff Barnaby, for Klee.

Jeff Barnaby was an exceptional storyteller in Indigenous genre filmmaking, often melding horror, sci-fi and thrillers interchangeably. A fearless auteur, Jeff’s style defied the western gaze on Indigenous peoples, hailing them as resilient and strong survivors and heroes.

To honour his memory, imagineNATIVE is proud to celebrate Jeff’s impact on Indigenous genre-bending films with a $2,500 cash prize. With support from Netflix.

06/04/2026

🎙️ BITSradio Episode 137 is live!

Recorded at the 2025 Blood in the Snow Film Festival, Rob sits down with filmmaker Dylan Pun and producer Sang-Thanh Nguyen to discuss their short film Shrimp Fried Rice.

🍤 SHRIMP FRIED RICE

🎬 Director / Writer — Dylan Pun
🎬 Producer — Sang-Thanh Nguyen

Starring: Jeff Yung, Adam Cawley, 🍤 Marty Stelnick

A talented shrimp chef with an ego that outweighs his tiny body carries out his vendetta against a certain culinary inclined rat, putting The Shrimp’s human puppet at risk of deportation.

🎧 Listen now: BITSradio.ca

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New episodes weekly — spotlighting the voices of Canadian indie film and genre cinema.

06/03/2026

👽 Some visitors come with a mission.

Klee, directed by Gavin Baird, follows an alien who is sent to Earth and tasked with a mission to invade, seduce, and terminate a family of colonizers in 19th-century Saskatchewan.

👽 Developed through the imagineNATIVE Institute (imagineNATIVE Originals).

🌙 Screening as part of Witching Hour at the 26th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

🕙 Friday, June 5, 2026 · 10:00 PM
📍 TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 2

🎟 Part of TD Free Friday — admission is free. Tickets are available day-of only at the imagineNATIVE Box Office on June 5. Limit two tickets per person.

June 2–7 Toronto · June 8–14 Online

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06/03/2026

🌙 What can your garbage say about you?

Love Is Trash, directed by Kenny Welsh, follows a woman at a data collection agency who creates ad recommendations based on people’s trash and finds herself drawn to a man through his garbage.

🌙 Screening as part of Witching Hour at the 26th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

🕙 Friday, June 5, 2026 · 10:00 PM
📍 TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 2

🎟 Part of TD Free Friday — admission is free. Tickets are available day-of only at the imagineNATIVE Box Office on June 5. Limit two tickets per person.

June 2–7 Toronto · June 8–14 Online

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06/01/2026

🌙 Immortality is only a pill away. Would you take it?

W7éyle (Moon’s Wife), directed by Amanda Wandler, imagines a near future where immortality comes in pill form. A Secwépemc woman must decide between eternal life and the path of her ancestors.

Starring Grace Dove and William Belleau.

🌙 Screening as part of Witching Hour at the 26th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

🕙 Friday, June 5, 2026 · 10:00 PM📍 TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 2

🎟 Part of TD Free Friday — admission is free. Tickets are available day-of only at the imagineNATIVE Box Office on June 5. Limit two tickets per person.

June 2–7 Toronto · June 8–14 Online

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

05/29/2026

🌙 Witching Hour lineup for the 26th annual Film + Media Arts Festival is here.

🕙 Friday, June 5, 2026 · 10:00 PM 📍 TIFF Lightbox, Cinema 2

Part of TD Free Friday — admission is free.

✨ W7éyle (moon’s wife) — dir. Amanda Wandler In a near future where immortality comes in pill form, a Secwépemc woman must decide between eternal life and the path of her ancestors.

✨ I Am Not Your Dusky Maiden — dir. Vea Mafile’o A Samoan woman entering therapy confronts the alter egos shielding her from painful memories.

✨ Love Is Trash — dir. Kenny Welsh At a data collection agency, a woman becomes obsessed with a stranger through the contents of his garbage.

✨ John’s First Tattoo — dir. Jett Kowalchuk A routine tattoo appointment spirals into something far stranger than expected.

✨ Klee — dir. Gavin Baird An alien arrives in 19th-century Saskatchewan with a mission targeting a family of colonizers in this darkly surreal sci-fi horror. Developed through the imagineNATIVE Institute (imagineNATIVE Originals)

🎟 This screening is part of TD Free Friday — tickets are free but cannot be reserved or purchased in advance. Pick them up in person at the imagineNATIVE Box Office on June 5 only. Limit two tickets per person.

Miigwetch, nia:wen, thank you to TD Bank for supporting TD Free Friday!

🔗 imaginenative.org · June 2–7 Toronto · June 8–14 Online

05/29/2026

🎙️ BITSradio Episode 136 is live!

Recorded at the 2025 Blood in the Snow Film Festival, Rob sits down with filmmaker Victoria Long to discuss her sci-fi short film Echo.

🎬 Writer / Director / Producer / Editor — Victoria Long

👽 Echo
When Liam returns home from investigating the ocean crash site of an unidentified object, Ava must decide whether to trust her heart⏤or her mind.

🩸 Son of Sara director Houston Bone also Produced Echo. Victoria Long also served as Creative Producer on Son of Sara, BITS 2025’s opening film.

🚀 Official Selection — BITS 2025 Sci-Fi Shorts Program “Monsters & Martians”

🎧 Listen now: BITSradio.ca

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New episodes weekly — spotlighting the voices of Canadian indie film and genre cinema.

05/28/2026

Kelly and Rob are joined by filmmaker Victoria Long to talk about Echo, her sci-fi short from BITS 2025.