7 Days Only! Watch Alanis Obomsawin’s New Doc on Life in Attawapiskat for Free Online
7 Days Only! Watch Alanis Obomsawin’s New Doc on Life in Attawapiskat for Free Online
The playlist will also feature Alanis Obomsawin’s landmark 1993 work Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, as well as her 1988 documentary No Address, Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie’s 2007 documentary The Invisible Nation, and Peter Pearson’s 1967 classic Encounter With Saul Alinsky – Part 2: Rama Indian Reserve.
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The People of the Kattawapiskak River
Alanis Obomsawin’s new documentary exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation that led Attawapiskat’s band chief, Theresa Spence, to ask the Canadian Red Cross for help. With the Idle No More movement making front page headlines, this film provides background and context for one aspect of the growing crisis.
The People of the Kattawapiskak River is the first in a series of films by Obomsawin on the rights of Aboriginal children in Canada, and is written and produced by Obomsawin and executive produced by Ravida Din.
In a distinguished career spanning more than four decades, Obomsawin has made over 35 uncompromising documentaries on issues affecting Aboriginal people in Canada. One of Canada’s most renowned artists, Obomsawin is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame, and her many personal honours include the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.
The People of the Kattawapiskak River, Alanis Obomsawin, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
And God said to me “People around the world will overthrow their governments, the people will rise up against the wealthy, and fight together. Nations around the world will come to help your people, they couldn’t help in the past, but they do know history and will not let it happen again! They try to change the world with their laws and beliefs while watching other growing nations kill their people and they do nothing, because they gain nothing for themselves, but they can’t fix what is in their own back yard, this is a different time and they can not kill you, even though this is what they want to do. I do not recognized country borders, I see it they way I created it and you see it they way I do. DO NOT FEAR THEM, I will reveal all corruption and will strip the wealth from them, because they forgot about me.”