Below are some scrolling images from the exciting world premiere event, where the film adaptation’s voice cast, producers and fans celebrated the occasion.

And check out the movie trailer, which uses behind-the-scenes and interview footage shot by UM film studies students Caden Nikkel, Isham Behl, Shubneet Bhatia and Ciara McLeod.

Cary Miller, associate professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies, was the film’s project manager and Patricia Ningewance, assistant professor, Indigenous Studies, was the lead translator on the film.

Miller said, “If we can have that language reinforced through movies — through video games, through the media that children want to consume after they go home from school, even if it’s an immersion school — then we’re creating more places of contact and more opportunities for language to just be a part of the way our young people think and act.”

The adaptation was covered by several news channels: 

• Star Wars adaptation to Ojibwe, (C. Miller and P. Ningewance), CBC Radio One Edmonton
• Ojibwe-dubbed Star Wars film brings ‘a new hope’ for endangered language, say cast members, (P. Ningewance), CBC
• A New Hope for Anishinaabemowin, (C. Miller and P. Ningewance), Winnipeg Free Press
• Ojibwe version of Star Wars: A new hope premieres tonight, (P. Ningewance and C. Miller), CTV Morning Live Winnipeg
• ‘This is going to be huge,’ Manitoba actress says as premiere of Ojibwe-dubbed Start Wars film nears, (C. Miller), CBC
• ‘Gi-ga-miinigoowiz Mamaandaawiziwin’: Ojibwe ‘Star Wars’ movie to open in Winnipeg, (C. Miller), Canadian Press

Star Wars (Anangong Miigaading): A New Hope will have its streaming premiere on Sunday, October 13, 2024 at 8 p.m. CST on both the APTN and APTN Languages channel. The film will make its debut on Disney+ on Sunday, October 27.

“Gi-ga-miinigoowiz Mamaandaawiziwin” (“May the Force be with you”).