With Adam Garnet Jones
Adam Garnet Jones is a Cree/Metis/Danish Two-spirit screenwriter, director, beadworker and novelist from Amiskwaciwaskahikan (also known as Edmonton, Alberta). Adam came into his own as a filmmaker with the release of his first feature, Fire Song, at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. Fire Song went on to win the Audience Choice Award at imagineNATIVE before picking up three more audience choice awards and two jury prizes for best film at other festivals. Adam has also written an award winning novel based on the film, published in 2018, and he’s now focusing primarily on writing fiction and creating custom beadwork, primarily for Indigenous Artists. He’s also the Director of TV Content for APTN, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, which is the world’s first indigenous broadcast network. And he’s the author of “History of the New World” a fabulous short story in the 2020 collection Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead.