The mandate of the Asinabka Festival is to present an annual Indigenous film & media arts festival in the nations capital that allows independent artists, national, international, Indigenous, non-Indigenous, to share, present, and disseminate their work.
The Asinabka Festival aims to highlight works that examine Indigenous issues and topics; to support media-artists and filmmakers; to promote Indigenous languages and cultures; to educate about First Nations, Metis, & Inuit issues in Canada, and about Indigenous Issues internationally; to provide a space where Indigenous peoples can tell their own stories, and see their own cultures reflected back at them; to entertain, to be innovative, and to present the best in Indigenous film.