Indigital Films

09/10/2024

Happy birthday to my brother ish Brent Sands, what more can I ask for in a kid brother, love that guy so much!!

02/19/2024

New Film with filmmaker Luísa Cruz set premiere in Halifax NS and Brantford ON next weekend.

Bkej (2024) is an exploration of plants as translators and mediators of our senses of belonging to the lands we call home. Shot at Bkejwanong (Walpole Island First Nation), filmmakers Derek Sands and Luísa Cruz worked with phytograms, an analogue filmmaking technique that makes use of plant matter to develop the film; in the process, the plants imprint themselves in the film strip, yielding abstract and whimsical effects. Working with plants not only invites us to learn about their ways of being but also about each other, allowing us to have a more intimate connection with the lands we share.

Come participate, experience and celebrate the world premieres of a novel multimedia storytelling project of identity and belonging produced by a cohort of Indigenous peoples and newcomers to Canada. Their collaborative project WhereWeStand (WWS) presents a range of creative multimedia works, from f...

01/25/2024

Sundance Film Festival 2024
The past week I left Toronto for Park City Utah and was invited by my cousin Father Henry Sands and cousin Taye Alvis to attend Windrider Summit and Sundance Film Festival 2024. We were able to meet and learn from several Academy Award winning filmmakers and get such positive and inspiring insight into our own work as storytellers. The greatest thing about this experience was getting to spend time with my family, Henry and Taye, the family that hosted us and my SLC family whom I got to visit, and other emerging filmmakers from the Windrider Institute. Truly blessed.

11/04/2023