Alanis Obomsawin award winning Filmmaker
Release Date: Oct 25, 2012 Between 17th – 21st October 2012 the ImagineNATIVE Film & Media arts Festival took place in Canada. NationTalk had the pleasure in speaking to award winning Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin who’s work was being featured at the festival and was in attendance herself.
Of Abenaki descent herself, for 38 years Obomsawin has directed documentaries at the NFB. To date, she has made over 30 documentaries on issues affecting Aboriginal people in Canada. Her best known documentary is Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, about the 1990 siege at Oka, Quebec. Her film Christmas at Moose Factory started off Wednesday night’s screening and it definitely took the audience back. It was her first short film, created in the late ‘60s. The film presented a creative take in documenting the lives of Cree children through their illustrations, renderings, and their own voices, as the children do the storytelling from their perspective. She talks about her film making career, her love of storytelling and her plans for film making in the future.
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