Indigenous Rising, the first team to represent Indigenous peoples at the Roller Derby World Cup, unites across continents to claim space and spark a powerful movement.
Sneak peek panel with the female creative collaborators who brought RISING THROUGH THE FRAY to the screen. It is a unique opportunity to highlight and bring female voices in the industry together and share the many profound ways they crafted the film in collaboration with Indigenous Rising and how this process has impacted them as well.
3PM > [BEFORE SCREENING] [FREE] > IN CONVERSATION WITH FILMMAKER COURTNEY MONTOUR AND THE DOCUMENTARY’S CREATIVE TEAM
Courtney Montour[writer and director]
Courtney Montour is a Kanien’kehá:ka writer and director from Kahnawà:ke whose work have screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and Margaret Mead. Her short Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again (2021) won Best Documentary Short at imagineNATIVE, Media Arts Festival and the American Indian Film Festival. Named one of Playback’s 2024 TV Directors of the Year for CBC’s The Knowing, Montour is also a recipient of the NDN Collective Changemaker Fellowship (2022) and King Charles III’s Coronation Medal. Rising Through the Fray is her debut feature documentary.
Kristen Brown[cinematographer]
Kristen Brown is a Montreal-based director of photography. Blending the realism of documentary with the stylization and craft of fiction film, her work shows an authentic vision of the world in both unscripted and fictionalized narratives. Her recent work is streaming on CBC Gem, APTN, Isuma TV, and the New Yorker Documentary.
Catherine Legault[editor]
Catherine Legault is an award-winning filmmaker and editor with a degree in Film
Production from Concordia University. A recipient of two Gémeaux Awards and an Iris
Award, she has edited numerous films over the past twenty years that have screened
internationally in cinemas, at festivals, and on television. Her work is recognized for its
sensitivity, narrative fluidity, and ability to weave together diverse perspectives.
