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Cass Gardiner

Cass Gardiner is an Anishinaabe Algonquin filmmaker, curator, and writer from Kebaowek First Nation. Her work draws on Indigenous foodways, cultural practices, and art history as a lens to explore contemporary issues within the Indigenous community today.

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She is currently in production of a film and video art project with The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University as part of an upcoming exhibition on Indigenous ecology and foodways opening in March 2026. She directed “Janelle Niles: Inconvenient” (Citizen Minutes Season 2), which premiered at Hot Docs 2023 and is currently streaming on CBC Gem and Crave in Canada. She also produced the short documentary “Jewels Hunt," supported by ITVS and the Tribeca Film Institute, which aired on PBS Independent Lens in 2020. Her first film “The Edible Indian,” has been screened internationally in classrooms and theaters, earning critical acclaim and a nomination for Best Documentary Short at the American Indian Film Festival.

 

Her writing on Indigenous art, film, and food has been published in Inuit Art Quarterly, Cherry Bombe, and Compound Butter Magazine and her work has been accepted to the Oxford Food Symposium in 2023 and 2024.

 

Cass has held a variety of positions within documentary film institutions, including the National Film Board of Canada and the Tribeca Film Institute. She is an independent film curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, curating the annual Native Cinema Showcase in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds a BA from NYU Gallatin and an MFA in Documentary Film from Toronto Metropolitan University.

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