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| APTN's January Programming Highlights |
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on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 08:09 PM |
In january, APTN presents Storytellers in Motion, the premiere of Rez Tunez as well as HD Pilot in wich you can view four unique pilot episodes.
Storytellers in Motion
Exclusive to APTN, this series profiles and pays tribute to a diverse range of filmmakers, writers, directors and performing artists who are pioneers of indigenous cinema and television. Many of the artists featured in the series have focused at least part of their lives on the Aboriginal narrative and in the process are creating an impact on world screen culture. The new season turns the spotlight on the next wave of Aboriginal storytellers and filmmakers who are harnessing the power of mass media, film, video, television and the digital world to reach their audiences. Combining interviews, clips and behind-the-scenes production footage, the series will explore the worlds of an exciting and passionate group of young, independent Aboriginal storytellers as they revel in the challenges and joys of storytelling and creativity.
Storytellers in Motion airs Wednesdays at 9:30 pm ET on APTN HD
Rez Tunez - APTN PREMIERE
From the creators that brought you Rez Bluez comes a new one-hour series, Rez Tunez packed with live performances from a variety of talented musicians across multiple genres with a fresh upbeat style, interspersed with rib-tickling comedy appearances and informative interviews with the artists. Rez Tunez is hosted by Raven Kanatakta and Shoshona Kish (founders and lead performers of Digging Roots) and includes performances from Derek Miller, Jacques and the Shakey Boys, Plex, Jason Burnstick, The Johnnys, Sadie Buck, Jesus Murphy and Texas Meltdown, along with comedy performances by Ryan McMahon. Rez Tunez will have you turning up the volume in no time!
Rez Tunez airs Saturdays at 8 pm ET on APTN HD - New Season Begins January 23
Cashing In
APTN ups the ante with a dramatic comedy series about casino life on a fictional Aboriginal reserve in southern Manitoba. Cashing In deals up a cast of card sharks, high rollers and a crew of quirky local characters at the North Beach Casino. When new owners set out to make it North America's No.1 First Nations casino, they quickly find out community members have other ideas.
Cashing In airs Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on APTN HD
Moose TV
Tune in for Moose TV, starring Adam Beach as GeorgeKeeshig who arrives in the bucolic northern community of Moose after spending 10 years of hard living in the city. Not long after his arrival, he lock-picks his way into an abandoned local television studio. A natural leader with big dreams, George decides to revive the old abandoned station. With the flick of a transmitter switch, Moose TV comes alive, and so do the resident misfits that inhabit the tiny, isolated former mining community. It doesn't take long before all hell breaks loose, family rivalries escalate, old and new ways collide, and secrets start to be revealed. It's just an ordinary day in a small, sleepy town where nothing ever really happens, or so it seems.
Moose TV airs Tuesdays at 9 pm ET on APTN HD
APTN Presents HD Pilots
Tune in for APTN Presents HD Pilots in January for a look at four unique pilot episodes. APTN presents Blackstone, a raw, authentic, inside look behind the veil of power and politics on an Aboriginal reserve. This one hour series pilot is a fact-based fiction that tells the story of a community suffering disintegration by its own hand as a result of the corruption, mismanagement and nepotism of its Chief and Councillors; and the parallel complicity of the silent band members. Then don't miss The Time Traveler, an exciting Sci-fi drama that takes viewers on the journey of a young woman who, in an effort to save her dying world, travels back in time from the year 3012 to Toronto 2009, where she enlists the help of a young Aboriginal man. Isolated from any urban contact, the dysfunctional TV cast and crew of a third-rate syndicated action series fight spirit numbing boredom and madness in their makeshift trailer town on an Aboriginal reservation run by a savvy Chief in Wolf Canyon. Then tune in for Tales of an Urban Indian, a pilot episode about a recently clean and sober First Nations actor, who has been disillusioned by the stereotypes of Aboriginal people in the media, and resolves to create his own projects that accurately depict the true urban Aboriginal experience. A young girl enters a high-stakes fishing tournament in order to save the family business in Juliana and the Medicine Fish.
APTN Presents HD Pilots airs Fridays at 9 pm ET on APTN HD
January 8 Blackstone
January 15 Time Traveler
January 22 Wolf Canyon
January 29 Juliana and the Medicine Fish/Tales of an Urban Indian
Hot Docs
Tune in for APTN HD original documentary programming in January for Family Dancing, a documentary of 48 hours in the life of 16-year-old world champion hoop dancer Nakotah LaRance as he and his family prepare to compete for his sixth world championship in Phoenix.
Then experience the personal story of Mohawk filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell, in Little Caughnawaga: to Brooklyn & Back, as she explores her roots and traces the connections of her family to the Mohawk community in Brooklyn, New York. Karl May and the Wild West profiles best-selling author Karl May and the legacy his work has left on generations in the way they continue to view the American frontier.
APTN HD Documentaries air Wednesdays at 8 pm ET on APTN HD
January 6 Coyote Spirit / Family Dancing
January 13 Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn & Back
January 20 Karl May and the Wild West
January 27 Martha qui vient du froid
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