Dr. Tasha Hubbard
Dr. Tasha Hubbard is an award-winning filmmaker and an associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies, with a cross-appointment in the Department of English and Film at the University of Alberta. She is from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four, and is the mother of a fourteen-year old son. Her latest film, nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up, was the first Indigenous film to open the Hot Docs International Film Festival, and then won its first prize. In 2020, the film won the Best Feature Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. She researches and teaches on Indigenous ecologies, storytelling, Indigenous efforts to rematriate the buffalo to the land, and Indigenous film in North America.