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- Asivak and Mahiigan, gifted with the nicknamed AskiBOYZ, have signed themselves up for a life jolting journey that will completely turn their understanding of the world upside down. The two urbanized Cree teenagers from Toronto are on a life altering quest to 13 different Canadian rural Indigenous communities where they will take on whatever challenges come their way. The journey may prove to be difficult, occasionally putting unnecessary stress on their brotherly relationship. But, with the help of their mentor, Cassius Spears, Narragansett Nation, they will walk away with the respect and tradition taught by each Elder and/or Knowledge Keeper they meet. What happens when you take two urbanized Cree teenagers from Toronto, Canada and send them off on a life altering quest to thirteen distinct Canadian rural Indigenous communities? AskiBOYZ is a new and exciting take on Indigenous life, a wild rush style youth television series that takes us to remote rural locations filled with local unique characters, rocky escapades, thrills and suspense. For their love of adventure, continuous hunger for Indigenous knowledge and genuine concern for the environment, Cree teen brothers Asivak and Mahiigan, nicknamed the AskiBOYZ, have signed themselves up for a life jolting journey that will completely turn their understanding of the world upside down. Without much choice in the matter, they both have agreed under pressure from their mother Jules Koostachin (filmmaker) to put themselves out there and visit thirteen Indigenous communities, and to take on whatever tasks we set up for them on their journeys. After learning basic survival techniques and customary practices from a Knowledge Keeper in each community visited, they will walk away with the sacred teachings and a taste of what life was like before settlers arrived at that specific area. It will not be easy for the teens, in fact it will be difficult for the brothers, but they are up for the challenge and believe that they have what it takes to succeed, because they have each other. But, life on the land in some of these remote communities can be difficult putting stress on their brotherly relationship.
- Canadian First Nations actors Tara Beagan, Lorne Cardinal and Thomas King recite a poem about what it means to First Nations. They explain that society's perception is guided by images in films and other media of "Indians", but that they are not "the Indians (we) have in mind" as portrayed in those images. Although some of those images are positive and some negative, they tend to be stereotypes. First Nations people in Canada, they explain, live like everyone else - they're your neighbors, your bus drivers, your shopkeepers. But First Nations people have to live in the way that is provided to them from decisions made by the earliest settlers.
- The exhilarating and dangerous world of sprint car racing is seen through the lives of five Indigenous racing families.
- Moccasin Flats: Redemption revisits the series man character Red, an ex-junkie who, after doing time for a crime he says he didnt commit, returns to the pressure cooker that is The Flats, a community hotly debated as being Canadas Worst Neighborhood, only to find himself in the midst of gang activity brewing on the verge of an all-out war.
- A Mohawk man starts a midnight running club to honor the life of a friend he lost to suicide. Together with his buddies, Grant carries on his departed friends love of... streaking all over the reserve.
- A group of young people vie to protect the Earth from a nasty-minded alien toddler.
- BY THE RAPIDS is a primetime-animated comedy that takes a satirical look at what happens when a thoroughly urban and pampered family relocates from Toronto to the rural Aboriginal community where the successful lawyer parents were born and raised. Despite the parents' roots in By The Rapids, the family has still found it tough to reintegrate themselves back into the community without sticking out like sore thumbs. With the help of Grandma Hazel, Cousin Karen, Uncle Regis and Karen's boyfriend Derek, their adjustments to life in the community of By The Rapids will be a bit smoother - or so they think. Without lattes, pilates or a decent internet connection, the urbane Littlehorns find plenty wrong with By The Rapids but are hell bent on bringing some of their cosmopolitan sophistication to the community.
- In the wake of another crime in a small reserve community a young man arrives bringing hope, inspiration and an important message.
- RepREZentin' in Fort Chip is a dramatic short examining date rape and alcohol abuse on an isolated reservation in northern Alberta.
- Derek Miller's Guilt Free Zone is a music, performance and variety program presented in a unique platform that's never been seen in a show of this kind. Two time Juno Award winner, Derek Miller, and his traveling band of minstrels, mongrels, and misfits will cross Canada, hitting five cities that are a haven for fun times with a simple rule - NO GUILT allowed. Enjoy the music from emerging Aboriginal performers, laugh at the comedy, stay up late, shut out the stresses of the day, the negativity and just enjoy some quality time with Derek Miller and his revolving door of guests and recurring characters.
- Cory Littlehorn is forced to relocate to his parents reserve when they decide to go on vacation to save their marriage.