The Lake Winnipeg Project

The Lake Winnipeg Project is a four-part documentary series that calls attention to stories of ingenuity and resilience among the Anishinaabe, Cree and

Métis communities of Matheson Island,

Poplar River First Nation, Fisher River

Cree Nation and Camp Morningstar, at a time when many external forces are imposing change. The series highlights their responses to various challenges and factors, such as a shifting climate, industrial encroachment, government policy and the COVID-19 pandemic, among others. Anishinaabe/Cree director Kevin Settee takes an “own-voices” approach to storytelling that gives Lake Winnipeg communities and peoples the opportunity to tell their own stories, in their own voices, and to speak to the challenges and successes experienced within their communities.The series includes four films: Matheson Island, Poplar River, Camp Morningstar and Fisher River.

Watch the series for free:

nfb.ca/series/lake-winnipeg-project

Filmmaker

Kevin Settee is an Anishinaabe/Cree community facilitator with family and deep community connections across the Lake Winnipeg area. His family roots are in Fisher River Cree Nation, Matheson Island and Dauphin River. He grew up in Winnipeg’s West End and has experience in community organizing, student politics, digital media and Indigenous Rights activism. A father of two children, he cares deeply about cultural resurgence and regaining cultural knowledge and practices through ceremony. He is currently developing a docuseries on professional Indigenous hockey players in the NHL and wants to continue storytelling with Indigenous communities through photography and documentary filmmaking.