The Forest City Film Festival (FCFF) is on this week in London, Ontario.

The festival features the work of film artists connected to southwestern Ontario including features, shorts, documentaries, short documentaries and short animations. 

In addition, the FCFF presents a selection of the best Canadian films of the year, as well as industry workshops, networking, a screenplay competition, filmmaker Q&As, receptions and awards.

CKRZ was able to speak with filmmaker Judith Kanatahawi Schuyler from Oneida Nation of the Thames, southwest of London.

Schuyler wrote, directed and stared in her short film Once Upon A Time in the Bay, and she's the festival's Indigenous Program Coordinator. Although she is from the Oneida Nation of the Thames and grew up in London, she is now based in New Zealand, where the short film is set.

"Two LGBTQ+ Indigenous friends in a overwhelmingly straight New Zealand beach-town search desperately for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow – gay people," the film's posted states on the FCFF website.

Once Upon A Time in the Bay is being presented this Friday at 6:30 p.m. To learn more, visit the festival website at FCFF.ca

Listen to David Moses on CKRZ FM and his Compelling Conversation with Judith Kanatahawi Schuyler below: