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THE REELWORLD FILM FESTIVAL — Founder Tonya Lee Williams brings aboriginal, Asian, black and Latin American work together, expanding perspectives, cross-pollinating audiences. Things kick off tonight with Shirley Cheechoo’s Bearwalker (Thursday, April 5, 7:30 pm), which, incredibly, is Canada’s first and only feature film by a native filmmaker. Features from Brazil, Hong Kong and Zimbabwe mix with local work like Alison Duke’s Raisin’ Kane: A Rapumentary and Ann Shin’s Western Eyes. Toronto’s been doing “diversity” festivals since the early 90s, nearly all of them proudly activist. ReelWorld, by contrast, is proudly pop. The program includes a big slate of music videos (everyone from Bowie fave Flora Sigismondi to hiphop auteur Little X, who gets a retrospective). Even better, the whole thing takes place under the kitsch-glorious roof of the AMC multiplex. This might be foreign turf for art types, but it’s where the people are at. NNN