Darlene Naponse

Darlene Naponse is an Anishinaabe filmmaker, writer, director, and community activist from Canada. She is most noted for her 2018 film ''Falls Around Her'', which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018 and subsequently won the Air Canada Audience Choice Award at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in October.

A member of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation near Sudbury, Ontario, she previously directed the short films ''Retrace'' (2002) and ''She Is Water'' (2010), and the feature films ''Cradlesong'' (2003) and ''Every Emotion Costs'' (2010). In 2017, she was a shortlisted Journey Prize finalist for her short story adaptation of "She Is Water".

She serves as a part-time faculty member in the Department of English at Laurentian University.

Her film ''Stellar'' went into production in 2021, and premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Provided by Wikipedia