Darryl Nepinak

Darryl Nepinak burst onto the Winnipeg filmmaking scene in the early 2000s and has created a radical canon of satirical short films that are as bighearted as they are scathing Socially engaged and committed Nepinak exemplifies the filmmaker as a community leader and social critic one who is mercifully seeking catharsis and understanding through satirical humour He explores themes of cultural property systems of Aboriginal imagemaking the singularity of Aboriginal life and the intricacies of intercultural misunderstanding in Winnipeg Working variously in found footage collage docufiction animation mockumentary music and comic sketches Nepinaks filmmaking trajectory is both deeply challenging and resolutely upbeat