Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy has marked her calendar with plans to return to Manitoba when the whale watching is prime in Hudson’s Bay.

Kennedy, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and the youngest daughter of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy, was in Churchill on Saturday as part of a new film training program, where she ran a session on the craft and industry with community members.

“I don’t quite know if I have subject up here yet, but I am going to keep coming back,” she said on Sunday, asked whether she plans to make a film in Manitoba “I want to go back and see those whales, so, we’ll see.”

Film Training Manitoba, a sector council focused on workforce development, worked with Doc Manitoba, which represents professional filmmakers, to develop the new Northern and Diverse Creator

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