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As people across the country come together to celebrate the filmmakers and stories behind Canadian cinema, a series of special events will be held to honour the life and legacy of Six Nations actor Graham Greene.
Greene, who was Oneida from Six Nations of the Grand River, in southern Ontario, died last fall at the age of 73.
April 15 is National Canadian Film Day, a CBC co-sponsored one-day, coast-to-coast salute to Canadian cinema, which will feature screenings of Canadian films in communities across the country.
As part of this year’s events, film screenings will be hosted to honour and memorialize Greene’s work, including a showing of his film Clearcut (1991) at the The Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ont.
The free screening will start at 6:00 p.m. on April 15 and members of Greene’s family and the community of Six Nations will be attending. The event will also be screening the short documentary film Graham Greene: I’m Just Me by Tara Johns.
Screenings of Clearcut and Greene’s award-winning film Seeds will also be held in Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax, N.S.
Greene played dozens of roles on stage and on screen in a career spanning nearly five decades from major motion pictures, to a range of television productions.
He was a member of the Order of Canada and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Dances with Wolves. He was given the Earle Grey lifetime achievement award for television acting (Canadian Screen Award) in 2004, and a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in 2025 for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.
