{"id":657048,"date":"2026-05-09T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657048\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:07:09","slug":"powwow-documentary-brings-cinematic-indigenous-storytelling-to-the-battlefords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/657048\/","title":{"rendered":"Powwow documentary brings cinematic Indigenous storytelling to the Battlefords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2288f8f1-c4a6-481c-9f3b-ea013d6019da-scaled.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A new documentary is highlighting powwows in the Battlefords region. (Image Credit: Kenneth Cheung)<\/p>\n<p>By Alyssa Rudolph<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;BEAUTIFUL, EMOTIONAL, EXPLOSIVE&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 8, 2026 | 3:52 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Beneath a tunnel of towering trees, an Indigenous fancy shawl dancer moves gracefully through the natural corridor. One by one, more dancers emerge beside her, their vibrant shawls sweeping through the air in a powerful display of tradition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The scene is just one moment from Powwow \u2013 The Documentary, an ambitious new feature currently being shot through the Battlefords region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t the kind of documentary people typically imagine,\u201d said director Peter Kolopenuk. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStorytelling is inherently an Indigenous art form, and we want to bring that to the screen through cinematic Indigenous storytelling.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new documentary is highlighting powwows in the Battlefords region. (Image Credit: Kenneth Cheung) By Alyssa Rudolph &#8216;BEAUTIFUL,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-657048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}