APTN's October Highlights Programming Highlights / APTN Posted by RAD on Sep 26, 2009 - 08:46 PM |
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APTN continues into the new fall season with an exciting line-up of original programming, new seasons of fan favourites, and a variety of documentary and movie premieres. Wapos Bay - NEW SEASON This unique fan favourite is back with a brand new season. This stop-motion animated series is aimed at family audiences and follows the adventures of three children as they explore their remote northern community of Wapos Bay. T-Bear, Talon and Raven live in a world of bush planes, canoeing, snow-mobiling, hunting, trapping and fishing. Winner of a 2009 ELAN award and three Gemini awards including 2008 Best Ensemble Performance in an animated Program, Wapos Bay is a fun adventure you won't want to miss. Wapos Bay airs Thursdays at 7 pm ET (APTN East) - New Season Begins October 22 By the Rapids - NEW SEASON Tune in for a new season of the animated comedy with attitude. This series takes a satirical look at what happens when a thoroughly urban teenager tries to integrate into the small Native community where his successful lawyer parents were born and raised. By the Rapids airs Thursdays at 7:30 pm ET (APTN East) - New Season Begins October 29 Bizou - NEW SEASON Don't miss a new season of the celebrated Bizou, a lively, animated, pre-school series that explores the wonderful world of animals as seen through the eyes of a cheerful little five year old Aboriginal princess named Bizou. Through traditional storytelling, sing-alongs, book readings, live-action animal footage, colourful illustrations and animation, children learn to appreciate the connection between each other and the wonderful world of animals that surround them. Each episode is a picturesque journey into the world of animals, teaching children about the role they play in traditional and modern Aboriginal life. Bizou airs Saturdays at 7 am ET (APTN East) - New Season Begins October 10 The Mix - NEW SEASON Lively and inspired, these half-hour performances offer a well-paced, informative profile of music rooted in Métis tradition. The Mix will explore the new frontiers that Métis musicians are reaching for. From traditional fiddle and dance through jazz and opera and on into hip-hop and the frontiers of performance art; The Mix will be there. You won't want to miss the new season of The Mix featuring performances by Sierra Noble, Derek Miller, Digging Roots and more. The Mix airs Saturdays at 6:30 pm ET (APTN East) - New Season Begins October 24 Shortcuts Tune in to APTN Shortcuts in October for Magpie River; which explores what happens when a hydroelectric mini-power station is installed on a river that is universally recognized as one of the most beautiful and how ecologists discuss possible solutions for sustainable development. Explore the story of one man's quest to reclaim the stolen artifact of Geronimo's skull in Crazy Ind'n. Don't miss the hybrid spoken word, animation, dance short film, Aboriginality, in which dancer and hip hop artist Dallas Arcand pays respect to traditional ways but also adapts and modernizes his culture by incorporating break dancing moves into his hoop dancing rituals. Then tune in for a visceral reflection of urban homelessness, survival and friendship through the story of a homeless man trying to get his guitar out of hock in 133 Skyway. Sparkling Igloo profiles Emily Novalinga, one of the rare Inuit women from Quebec (Nunavik) to write and publish poetry. Tune in as she presents her poem in which she denounces abuses made to women. In Divide by Zero, Ashley, a young Aboriginal crusader of all causes is stopped in her activist tracks after an awkward conversation with her boyfriend's well-meaning mother and becomes determined to re-assert her cultural authenticity as she builds a tipi in her suburban bedroom using internet instructions. Shortcuts airs Tuesdays at 11 pm ET (APTN East) October 6 Magpie River October 13 Crazy Ind'n / Aboriginality October 20 133 Skyway October 27 Sparkling Igloo - APTN PREMIERE / Divide by Zero APTN Movies Check out APTN for movies every Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. Ashley Judd stars as Libby Parsons, who discovers that the husband she's convicted of murdering staged his own "death" and framed her for the crime. Released on parole, she skips town to find him which puts parole officer Travis Lehman (Tommy Lee Jones) on her trail. Double Jeopardy airs Saturday, October 17 at 9 pm ET (APTN East). Tune in on Halloween night for the spine-chilling thriller The Gift, starring Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves, and Katie Holmes about a widow and mother of three who makes her living by foretelling others' futures until she is unwittingly pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift could get her killed. The Gift airs on Saturday, October 31 at 9 pm ET (APTN East). Hot Docs Check out some of APTN's best documentary offerings on Reel Insights for October. Serial killer John Martin Crawford was convicted in 1996 for the brutal killings of three Aboriginal prostitutes and everyday Aboriginal woman are preyed upon by men who abuse, rape and kill them, and without virtually any media attention. The APTN premiere of Spirit of Stolen Sisters is a documentary explores what these women are going through and asks the question "Is a native woman's life worth less to the general public than a non-native one?" Then tune in for A Place Between: The Story of Adoption, a dramatic story of the reconciliation between biological and adoptive families and explores the journey of a cross-cultural adoptee who struggles to find balance between his families' different ethnicities and traditions, and to discover how he fits into each world. Reel Insights airs Wednesdays at 7:30 pm ET (APTN East) October 7 Spirit of Stolen Sisters - APTN PREMIERE October 14 The Return of the Qimutsiit October 21 Niaqqirijiq: The Great Distemper October 28 A Place Between: The Story of Adoption All times are for APEN East unless otherwise specified. |
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