Bronfree Films

19/06/2025

Tiny is airing on BC's Knowledge Network this Saturday June 21st! Catch the film at 7:40PM on TV, or tune in later online at knowledgenetwork.ca/program/tiny 🌊

Gilaksa'la for supporting local film!!

In this heartfelt stop-motion animated film, ‘Nakwaxda’xw Elder Colleen Hemphill tells the story of growing up on a tiny float-house in the Pacific Northwest. Colleen recounts moments of wonder, as well as those that inspired both fear and growth.

https://www.knowledge.ca/program/tiny/episode-0

Watch a preview of Tiny.

15/01/2025

We are thrilled to finally announce that Kin Theory is getting a new home with imagineNATIVE! 💚

Kin Theory is an Indigenous media maker database, which began as an initiative of Nia Tero. Kin Theory connects Indigenous creatives including actors, writers, directors, and more to opportunities within the industry. This platform has been gifted to imagineNATIVE so that we may continue to uphold its legacy and caretake for its community, integrating the platform into our mission to amplify Indigenous storytellers worldwide.

We invite Indigenous creatives and non-Indigenous allies to join Kin Theory at kintheory.org ✨️

15/01/2025

Kin Theory is an amazing database for Indigenous creatives that imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival has just acquired! What a perfect partnership.

The world’s largest Indigenous film and media arts festival has a new acquisition. It was announced this past month that the Toronto-based festival imagineNATIVE has acquired Kin Theory, which is an extensive centralized database of Indigenous artists and creators that can be accessed by others wh...

25/11/2024

Highly recommend checking out a beautiful curation of films by Indigenous filmmakers - feature films and shorts programs! Available online for FREE until Friday November 29th: https://americanindian.si.edu/native-cinema-showcase-2024/index.cshtml

Our film Tiny is in the "Belonging Shorts" program, if anyone's interested in watching it!
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

16/10/2024

We are honoured to announce TINY as an official selection of the 2024 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival — the longest-running all-documentary film festival in North America! 🎬

We’re thrilled to be part of this celebrated festival!

🗓 When: Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 11 A.M.
📍 Where: Cinema 2, Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa
🎥 Shorts Program: Reframing Reality

Tickets here: https://hsdfi.org/films-schedule/

05/10/2024

🌿 WATCH NOW ON APTN lumi 🌿

Our award-winning claymation short, Məca, is now streaming on APTN lumi!

ABOUT 👉 Narrated in Kwakʼwala by the late Elder Ida Smith, this stop-motion short presents the 'Nakwaxda'xw legend of Mink, or Məca, who forces himself to change so he can impress love interests. Throughout his journey, Məca learns to be humble, patient and self-accepting.

STREAM 👉💻 https://aptnlumi.ca/ #/videoDetails?videoId=MjoxX2JqeHFvYzYx&type=video&sThumb=https:%2F%2Fcfvod.kaltura.com%2Fapi_v3%2Fservice%2Fthumbasset%2Faction%2Fserve%2FthumbAssetId%2F1_4hwm4x41

✨ A heartfelt thank you to First Peoples' Cultural Council for supporting this project! ✨

22/09/2024

Tiny is now accessible to educators, libraries, and community groups for streaming or purchase through GOOD DOCS!

Click here for details: https://gooddocs.net/products/tiny

TINY portrays modern day Colleen as she reflects on her past, and re-enacts the stories she tells of her youth, as a young girl growing up on a float-house in the wild and unpredictable Pacific Northwest and its waters.


https://hubs.ly/Q02HwrGw0

02/08/2024

🎥✨ Tiny is screening at the Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival! Happening August 16-18, 2024, at the Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino in Pojoaque, New Mexico. 🦬

This 3-day festival is packed with vibrant Indigenous performances, stunning films, and delicious food from vendors, including Manko: Native American Fusion and Good As Feast. 🍲

Enjoy live performances from artists like Gary Farmer & The Troublemakers, Levi Platero, and Def-I, plus Indigenous films showcasing powerful storytelling and cultural richness. 🎶🎬

Catch Tiny as part of the film lineup, supported by the Sundance Indigenous Program:
📅 August 18th at 1PM
📍 Barranca Room
🎨 Cultural Animations Program

Don’t miss this unforgettable celebration of Indigenous art and culture! ❤️

For more information, visit: poehcenter.org/pathways

Poeh Cultural Center

31/07/2024

📖 AVAILABLE NOW ON GOOD DOCS 📖

Exciting news! 🎉 Tiny is now accessible to educators, libraries, and community groups for streaming or purchase through GOOD DOCS!

After such an impactful experience bringing Tiny to classrooms in Missoula during Big Sky Documentary Film Festival's "Filmmakers in the Schools" program, we are absolutely thrilled about this offering. 🙌

Visit https://gooddocs.net/products/tiny to bring this award-winning film to your classroom, campus, and community. 🌟

29/07/2024

🎬✨ Tiny is hitting the big screen at the Smithsonian’s 2024 Native Cinema Showcase! 🌟🎥

🌊 In Tiny, 'Nakwaxda'xw Elder Colleen Hemphill tells the story of her life as a youth growing up on a float house, brought to life through stopmotion animation. 🌊

Catch Tiny in the Belonging Shorts block on Saturday, August 17th at 3 PM at the New Mexico History Museum — free of charge! Don’t miss this chance to watch incredible stories and celebrate Native cinema. 🎉

For more info 👉 https://americanindian.si.edu/native-cinema-showcase-santa-fe-2024/belonging-shorts-program.cshtml

26/07/2024

Tiny is screening for free at the Montréal Présence autochtone / First Peoples Festival in August!

📍August 10th at 2PM @ Grande Bibliothèque (Viewing Room 4th Floor)
🎥 Part of the Short Films Session 1 Program
🏆Tiny has been nominated for the APTN Award!

Many many thanks to Chloé Biocca for creating the French subtitles of Tiny for this special screening 💙

For more info👉🎟️ https://presenceautochtone.ca/programmation/seance-de-courts-metrages/

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02/05/2024

✨We are going to NYC!✨

Our stopmotion short Tiny will be screening in New York City this month at the American Museum of Natural History as a part of the Margaret Mead Film Festival!

🎥 All Day May 11th and 12th
📍American Museum of Natural History in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
🌊 Earth in Focus Shorts Program
🎟️ FREE with Museum Admission: https://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-festival

**Filmmaker Ritchie Hemphill and Film's subject Colleen Hemphill will be in attendance for a portion of the screenings. More info to come!

About the program:
“Through these five family-friendly shorts, which will play on loop throughout the day, we celebrate the intricate relationship between humanity and the natural world and remember our duty to cherish, protect, and preserve the Earth for generations to come.”