Sarain Fox
NationalityCanadian
Occupations
  • Activist
  • broadcaster
  • filmmaker

Sarain Fox is a Canadian Anishinaabe activist, broadcaster and filmmaker.[1] She is most noted for her 2020 documentary film Inendi,[2] for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Host or Interviewer in a News or Information Program or Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.[3]

A member of the Batchewana First Nation of Ojibways from near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario,[4] she has also been host of the Viceland/APTN documentary series Rise,[5] and cohost of APTN's documentary series Future History.[6]

She has appeared as a guest judge in the third and fourth seasons of Canada's Drag Race[7] as well as the first season of Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World.

References

  1. Dennis Ward, "Sarain Fox documenting and preserving her auntie’s stories before they’re lost". APTN National News, February 9, 2021.
  2. Ben Cousins, "'They had no pity': New documentary chronicles traumatizing life at residential schools". CTV News, March 4, 2021.
  3. Brent Furdyk, "Television Nominees Announced For 2021 Canadian Screen Awards, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Leads The Pack With 21 Nominations". ET Canada, March 30, 2021.
  4. "New film tells captivating story of northern Ontario residential school survival". CBC Northern Ontario, December 16, 2020.
  5. "Sundance ’17: Viceland’s focus on indigenous resistance in “Rise”". Realscreen, January 20, 2017.
  6. Radheyan Simonpillai, "TV review: APTN's Future History is about reclaiming Indigenous culture". Now, May 7, 2019.
  7. Joey Nolfi (June 29, 2022). "Brooke Lynn Hytes reunites with Werk Room crush Miss Vanjie on Canada's Drag Race season 3". EW. Retrieved July 12, 2022.


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