Trevor Solway, Sinakson, is a Blackfoot filmmaker from Siksika Nation. His Breakthrough
film Indian Giver screened internationally and can now be found on Amazon Prime Video.
In 2021 Trevor directed the award-winning POV documentary Kaatohkitopii: The Horse
He Never Rode screened at ImagineNATIVE Arts +Media Festival and DOXA Festival (CBC
GEM). In 2022 he directed an episode of the docs-series Stuff The British Stole for
CBC/ABC. He has been an episodic director for Amplify Season 2 and 3 for APTN. He is
the writer/director/showrunner of Tales From The Rez, a horror comedy anthology series
available on APTN Lumi. TFTR won the audience choice award at Calgary International
Film Festival and was nominated for 9 Rosie Awards, winning Best Screenwriter under 30
minutes and Best Production Reflecting Cultural Diversity.
His most recent feature documentary Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man (Prod. by The
National Film Board of Canada) is set to be released in 2025.
In 2020 Trevor was the recipient of the MRU Horizon Award for early career success and
in 2021 he was named Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40. He is the founder and leader of
The Napi Collective, a grassroots filmmaking society based out of Siksika Nation.
He attended the Indigenous Digital Filmmaking program at Capilano University in 2012.
He then graduated from Mount Royal University with his Bachelor’s of Communications in
2017.
