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OBOMSAWIN, Alanis
- Born
- Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1932
- Biography synopsis
- Alanis Obomsawin is a prolific filmmaker, who has made over forty films about the experiences of Indigenous people in North America. She grew up in the small Abenaki settlement of Odanak, Quebec, and later Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, where she experienced and witnessed discrimination that would inspire the trajectory of her artistic career. Obomsawin began her career as a fashion model turned traditional storyteller and singer during the 1960s, but was hired by the NFB in 1967 as a consultant because of her activism in Native communities. In 1971, she directed her first film with NFB support, Christmas at Moose Factory, a study of life at a Native settlement on the shore of James Bay, explored through the lens of children's drawings. Among her well-known films is Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993), one of four she made about the armed standoff between the Mohawk nation, who were protesting the development of a golf course on a sacred area of their territory, and the Quebec police and the Canadian army in July 1990. Despite being abandoned by all other film crews from major news outlets, Obomsawin remained behind barricades for seventy-eight days to stand in solidarity with the Mohawk community near Oka. Obomsawin makes films to educate Native and non-Native people about the ongoing reality of Indigenous struggles. Her filmmaking is rooted in a desire to facilitate healing through cross-cultural and inter-generational communication.
- Media used
- Film
- File & Archive locations
- National Film Board of Canada, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Thunder Bay Art Gallery, ON - Resource Centre
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "$25,000 Toronto-City Prize Goes to Native Filmmaker (Alanis Obomsawin)." Toronto Star 20 Sep. 1993
- "'Film Provides a Place for our People to be Seen and Heard'; Alanis Obomsawin, Film-maker." Gazette (Montreal) 8 Nov. 1993
- "11th Annual St. John's International Women's Film and Video Festival: Schedule." Telegram (Toronto) 13 Oct. 2000
- "A 25 Year Retrospective: Native Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin." Aboriginal Voices 6.3 (May/Jun 1999): 32
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http://www.newswire.ca/ - "Alanis Obomsawin - NFB." National Film Board of Canada Accessed 28 Jul. 2015
http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/alanis-obomsawin - "Alanis Obomsawin Makes Her Mark as Relentless Storyteller." Canadian Press NewsWire 19 Jun. 2000
- "APTN Begins New Season." Telegram (Toronto) 1 Feb. 2003
- "APTN Begins Winter Season Next Week with several New Programs." Canadian Press NewsWire 31 Jan. 2003
- "At Home with Alanis Obomsawin." Gazette (Montreal) 28 Jan. 1996
- "Canada Honours its Stars of the Awards Season at Inaugural Celebration in Los Angeles." Canada NewsWire 21 Feb. 2014
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- "David Cronenberg, Alanis Obomsawin, to Get Special Canadian Screen Awards." Canadian Press 5 Nov. 2013
- "Doc Pioneers to be Honoured." Toronto Star 20 Jan. 2009
- "Documentary Filmmakers in the City have been Lining Up to Attend a National Film Board Class Headed by Canadian Alanis Obomsawin." Canadian Press NewsWire 21 May 2004
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- "Film about Injustice." Gazette (Montreal) 19 Jun. 2009
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