Ali Kazimi

Speaker Bio: 

Ali Kazimi is an award-winning filmmaker, author, and media artist as well as a professor in film production at York University. His cross-cultural relational practice deals with race, migration, memory, and Indigeneity from a South Asian diasporic point of view. His documentaries have been screened and broadcast nationally and internationally; they continue to be widely used in post-secondary institutions. Continuous Journey (2004), his multi-award-winning feature documentary, brought the little-known history of the arrival and turning away of the Komagata Maru in 1914 into public consciousness, and catalyzed academic research, artistic creation and activism. Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence – his most recent feature documentary - premiered at the 2022 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. In 2019 he received the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, as well as a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of British Columbia.