I was in my early days of working cross culturally in Nova Scotia when I crossed paths with Michele Sereda at the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative in Regina. This meeting led to a collaboration that lasted for the next six years until Michele’s tragic death in February 2015. Michele had a long history of doing theatre-based projects with Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan and she invited me to join her. We did one project each year: Scott Collegiate Regina, Piopot First Nation, Sandy Bay, La Ronge and two projects in Cumberland House Cree Nation. All these projects were in partnership with the Filmpool. For the La Ronge and Cumberland House projects we partnered with Mispon: a Celebration of Indigenous Filmmaking and filmmakers Janine Windolph and Trudy Stewart.
