Darlene Naponse

Darlene Naponse is an Anishinaabe filmmaker and writer from Canada.[1] 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.[2]

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).[3] In 2017, she was a shortlisted Journey Prize finalist for her short story adaptation of "She Is Water".[4]

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