2026 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

Short Film Program: Children of Resilience

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Stories of our most sacred and preciuos beings facing a spectrum of insurmountable odds with strength and resiliency that is imbedded ancestrally within them from generations before them. 



These shorts programs may differentiate from the shorts programs presented at our in-person festival screenings due to the various geoblocking restraints on each film.


On a quest to save his parents’ marriage, 10-year-old Jimmy takes a mythical journey through his imagination to the underworld, where he learns the ways of courage and sacrifice.



Raymond Edwards is a director and cinematographer who has been working in the film industry for 15 years. Those years were spent working his way up through the camera department, from clapper loader to DOP.



  • Year
    2024
  • Runtime
    15 minutes
  • Language
    English, Māori
  • Country
    Aotearoa (New Zealand)
  • Premiere
    North American Premiere
  • Genre
    Short, Fiction
  • Director
    Raymond Edwards (Māori)
  • Screenwriter
    Raymond Edwards (Māori)
  • Producer
    Lindsay Gough
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