''Flood'' is a Canadian animated short film, directed by

Amanda Strong Amanda Strong is a Michif Indigenous filmmaker, media artist and stop-motion director based out of the unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited work and her films have been screened at festivals worldwide, ...

and released in 2017.Anna Dimoff
"Animated short film tells story of Indigenous youth combating colonial influence"

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British Columbia, December 10, 2017. The film tells the story of Thunder, an

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention *Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band *Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...

youth created by the Spider Woman to combat the flood of lies and threats to indigenous peoples spawned by European colonization of North America. The film premiered on October 1, 2017 at the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival. It was subsequently named to TIFF's year-end

Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival and announced in December each year to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema" ...

list for short films in 2017,Norman Wilner
"Canada’s Top Ten has some glaring omissions"
''

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'', December 6, 2017. and was selected by journalist

Jesse Wente Jesse Wente is a First Nations Canadian arts journalist and chairperson of the Canada Council for the Arts. He is an Ojibwe member of Serpent River First Nation. Background Jesse Wente was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1974. His maternal grandmoth ...

for a CBC program of five short films on the theme of "Keep Calm and Decolonize".

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* 2017 films 2017 short films 2010s animated short films 2010s English-language films English-language Canadian films Canadian animated short films First Nations films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub