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Body Snatchers: Film Festival and Blood Quantum

body snatchers: Free. anotherstory.ca, according to NOW Magazine. White people can be zombies. September 5, 11 59 pm, Ryerson; September 6, 6 pm, TIFF 2, tiff.net; EMPIRE OF WILD by Cherie Dimaline book launch on September 16 at Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas West 7 pm. See also aliens, body snatchers and bearers of the apocalypse. Mi'kmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby follows up his nervy debut, Rhymes For Young Ghouls, with Blood Quantum, the zombie movie opening the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto International Film Festival. That's the space they occupy, whether literally or symbolically, in new narratives by Indigenous artists who are reconfiguring genre to tell stories about colonization, genocide and the trauma thereafter. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.