EMBARGO COLLECTIVE II is an anthology of five short films by Canadian Indigenous women. Participating in a collective process, each director created a film under restrictions imposed on them by their peers, to push each artist into new creative territory.

EMBARGO COLLECTIVE II is a series of five new short films from rising Canadian Aboriginal women filmmakers that had its World Premiere at 2014 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in celebration of the festival’s 15th anniversary. Conceived to inspire and challenge a dynamic group of five award-winning and critically acclaimed Aboriginal women filmmakers, the Embargo Collective II explores various genres on the universal theme of play.