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Alanis Obomsawin Retrospective | Hot Docs Festival | May 3-10 | Toronto
Posted by Michelle D., May 3, 2009 12:24 AM
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imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and Hot Docs International Documentary Festival will co-present a retrospective of the films of this year's Outstanding Achievement Award winner Alanis Obomsawin.
Obomsawin is Canadian filmmaker of Abenaki descent whose films have brought awareness to many social realities facing Indigenous peoples in Canada. Since directing her first film, Christmas at Moose Factory (1967), Obomsawin has directed more than 30 films at the National Film Board of Canada, including the award-winning Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, which chronicles the 78-day standoff between the Mohawk of Kanehsatake and the Canadian Armed Forces and the aftermath of what is known as the Oka Crisis in 1990.
Other notable documentaries by Obomsawin include Incident at Restigouche, which deals with a small Mi'kmaq community under governmental attack, Rocks at Whiskey Trench, which revisits the site of the Oka crisis years later, and Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child, which helped reform child welfare policy in Alberta.
Obomsawin's latest film, Professor Norman Cornett, which looks at the sudden dismissal of a McGill University religious studies lecturer and how it raises questions about the nature of pedagogy, morality, and freedom of though, will have its world premiere at the Hot Docs Festival.
An Officer of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the International Documentary Association's Pioneer Award, Obomsawin will be in attendance at this year's festival.
For film scheduling and ticket purchase information, visit hotdocs.ca
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