By Sam Laskaris, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The documentary feature Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man by writer/director Sinakson Trevor Solway will screen at imagineNATIVE in Toronto, the largest Indigenous film and media arts festival in the world. Solway is a member of Siksika Nation in Alberta. His film will be shown June 7 at the TIFF Lightbox. Siksikakowan delves into the masculinity of the Blackfoot men of Solway’s First Nation. Men from the community discuss their lives, showing not only their strengths but their vulnerabilities as well. “Growing up in the prairies and growing up with my family in Siksika, I grew up around a lot of ultra-masculine men,” Solway said. “And I didn’t always feel like I fit into that as, like, a young artist or a sensitive, creative…
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