Festival Honours Native film maker: Kanehsatake documentary named best Canadian feature
The Globe and Mail, Sept. 20 Spring, 1993
Quebec Native Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawim is the second woman and first native to win the Toronto-City Award for best Canadian feature for her film, Kanesatake: 270 years of resistance, a documentary in the Canadian Cinema-Verite tradition. Obomsawin's NFB film documents the 1990 Standoff between Mohawks and the military at Oka, from an Aboriginal perspective, and was chosen amongst other Canadian contenders, the likes of Francois Girard, Deny's Archand, David Wellington, and John Greyson. Kanehsatake saw Obomsawin and her crew spend 50 days bedhind the Oka barricades, and elicited from its Toronto audience a desire to see justice done to Canada's native people. The festival of Festivals is not technically competitive, but its numerous awards have been increasingly in focus.
ITEM 1993.128 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Canehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance – Alanis Obomsawin
Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould – Francois Girard
Love and Human Remains – Denys Arcand
I Love a Man in a Uniform – David Wellington
Zero Patience – John Greyson
An Angel at My Table – Jane Campion
Sweetie – Jane Campion
Save My Lost Nigga' Soul – Clement Virgo
Me, Mom and Mona – Mina Shum
Strapped – Forest Whitaker
Suture – Scott Mcgehee
Suture – David Siegel
Combination Platter – Tony Chan
Naked – Mike Leigh
Piano – Jane Campion
Trois Couleurs Bleu – Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Snapper – Stephen Frears
A Bronx Tale – Robert De Niro
M. Butterfly – David Cronenberg
Rudy – David Anspaugh