CanFilmDay / Blood Quantum


,   - (1 Hour 45 Minutes)
Movie / Film Community Event 19+

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 902.532.7069

Doors open at 11:45am
Event in Room: Studio (upstairs)

DIRECTOR: Jeff Barnaby (Mi’qmaw) / YEAR: 2019 / RUN TIME: 96min / GENRE: Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror

The term “blood quantum” refers to a colonial system enforced on Indigenous peoples in North America which determines their individual status and rights based on their “percentage” of Indigenous ancestry. It is a tool of control, assimilation and erasure of Indigenous peoples.

In this brilliantly provocative horror film set in an isolated Mi’kmaq community, the Indigenous population remains immune to a raging zombie virus infecting the surrounding white population.

Blood soaked, fast paced and darkly comic, Blood Quantum is a wild ride using the zombie genre as a vehicle to explore white supremacy, colonialism, genocide and Indigenous self-determination.

WRITER: Jeff Barnaby (Mi’qmaw) / CAST: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Blackfoot/Sámi), Michael Greyeyes (Plains Cree), Forrest Goodluck (Diné/Mandan/Hidatsa/Tsimshian) / PRODUCERS: John Christou, Robert Vroom / LANGUAGE: English, Mi'kmaq

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ARTSPLACE is pleased to join the national celebration of Canadian cinema with a special triple bill screening in honour of National Canadian Film Day (CanFilmDay). Presented in partnership with REEL CANADA, this annual event is a coast-to-coast tribute to Canadian film and storytelling, inviting communities to come together to experience the richness and diversity of our national cinema.

All screenings are open to the public. Join in and celebrate the stories that shape us.
National Canadian Film Day is made possible through our collaboration with REEL CANADA, a charitable organization dedicated to promoting Canadian film and its ability to inspire meaningful conversations about what it means to be Canadian.
- www.reelcanada.ca

ARTSPLACE is a public Art Gallery that is operated by the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council, a registered charitable, community organization dedicated to encouraging and promoting the arts. Supported through the Province of Nova Scotia and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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