Tasha Hubbard - windspeaker confidential

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Saskatchewan film-maker Tasha Hubbard has made quite an impression with her first solo project as a director. Her documentary Two Worlds Colliding earned her and National Film Board producer Bonnie Thompson the Canada Award at last year's Gemini Awards.

Two Worlds Colliding chronicles the freezing deaths of three Aboriginal men on the outskirts of Saskatoon and the growing rift between the Aboriginal community and the city's police force.

Earlier in 2005, the film, written and directed by Hubbard, won the Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival.

Hubbard completed her master's degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan earlier this year and is now working towards her PhD at the University of Calgary.

Two Worlds Colliding is part of the lineup at the fourth annual Global Justice Film Festival taking place at the University of Winnipeg on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4 and is also scheduled for screening at the National Museum of the American Indian during the 13th Native American Film and Video Festival taking place in New York City from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3.

Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?

Tasha Hubbard: Loyalty.

W: What is it that really makes you mad?

T.H.: Dishonesty, both in my personal life and especially in the media.

W: When are you at your happiest?

T.H.: When I stop being hard on myself and appreciate where I'm at.

W: What one word best describes you when you are at your worst?

T.H.: Stressed out.

W: What one person do you most admire and why?

T.H.: Alanis Obomsawin, for being one of the first Indigenous film-makers to not be afraid to make waves and inspire change.

W: What is the most difficult thing you've ever had to do?

T.H.: Find the courage to do the same: Overcome my fears to make a film that attempts to rock the boat of complacency that exists in this country around Indigenous issues.

W: What is your greatest accomplishment?

T.H.: See above answer.

W: What one goal remains out of reach?

T.H.:Finding true balance in my life ... but I get closer every day.

W: If you couldn't do what you're doing today, what would you be doing?

T.H.: I have a hard time imagining doing anything else.

W: What is the best piece of advice you've ever received?

T.H.: Don't apologize for who you are and what your different experiences have been ... even if they don't fit peoples' expectations of the "norm."

W: Did you take it?

T.H.: I take that advice more now than I did when I was younger.

W: How do you hope to be remembered?

T.H.: As a good woman! And as someone who found her voice to add to those who call out and demand change.