Michelle Derosier’s short film The Grandfather Drum is an animated fairytale about a drum revered for its healing powers.
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Tell me about yourself,” says an off-screen Alanis Obomsawin to Randy Horne, the subject of her short documentary Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man (1997). This type of inquiry is, of course, essential to any
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Reel Injun is a revelatory documentary about the history of the intricate relationship between Native people and the screen.
Keep ReadingAt 76, Alanis Obomsawin is circling back to her early focus on language, education, and children. “I want to make a series of short children’s films,” she tells me.
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After an artistic lifetime spent educating those of us who should have known of these things long ago, Obomsawin now wishes to return to the most important link in the chain and
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