Canadian filmmaker and artist Lindsay McIntyre is of Inuit and settler descent, and much of her work reflects on her complicated family history. A lover of 16mm film, she embraces handmade techniques, often hand processing her films and at times creating her own 16mm film stock with handmade emulsions. Employing interviews and silence in her emotional, impressionistic explorations, her films (more than forty in twenty years) include a variety of portraits—of people and family, and of the land and a former residential school. Among her concerns are silence as resistance,  intergenerational trauma, and “the grandmother effect,” which notes elders’ unique impact on social dependence and survival. Her most recent film, NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ, won the Live-Action Short Award at this year’s imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. McIntyre is an associate professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish territories.