[nativestudies-l] Filmmaker & Cultural Warrior Alanis Obomsawin Honored by Retrospective at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

    Filmmaker and Cultural Warrior Alanis Obomsawin


    Honored by Retrospective at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

*After a triumphant retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, *

*a selection of films moves to Boston, May 28 -- 31, 2008*

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*Alanis Obomsawin in Person at All Screenings!*

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*Panel Discussion with Melissa Bisagni of the National Museum of the 
American Indian, filmaker Raquel Chapa (WGBH/American Experience), and 
Alanis Obomsawin following May 31 screenings.*

 

Alanis Obomsawin is one of Canada's most distinguished documentary 
filmmakers. A member of the Abenaki Nation, whose territory originally 
extended from New England to Quebec, Obamsawin was born in New Hampshire 
in 1932 and raised on the Odanak reservation northeast of Montreal. 
Deeply absorbed in the history, traditional stories, and songs of her 
ancestors, she began her career as a singer, writer, and storyteller. 
She has worked with the National Film Board of Canada to make over 
thirty documentaries on issues affecting First Nations peoples.

Obomsawin first chronicled conflicts over land and political rights 
between aboriginal peoples and other communities in Canada with Incident 
at Restigouche (1984). Her 1993 film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of 
Resistance, about the Mohawk protest against the expansion of a golf 
course into sacred burial lands, received international acclaim. 
Interweaving drawings, songs, music, and interviews, her films are 
distinguished by their original research, meticulous attention to 
historical detail, compassion for their contemporary subjects, and 
insight into the rights and lives of First Nations peoples. In May 2008, 
Obomsawin receives the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, one of 
Canada's highest honors. All films are from Canada and are written and 
directed by Obomsawin. (Written by Sally Berger, MoMA)

- Panel Discussion with Alanis Obomsawin, Melissa Bisagni 
(NMAI/Smithsonian), Raquel Chapa (Filmmaker/WGBH) and others after the 
May 31 Screenings

*Boston Globe Article*

*http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/05/25/contrasting_happy_days_hard_times/*

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*Museum of Fine Art*

*http://www.mfa.org/film/*

 
Dylan Maddox McGinty
U.S. Sales Manager
 
National Film Board of Canada
1123 Broadway, Suite 307
New York, NY 10010
 
Tel 212 629 8890
Fax 212 629 8502
Mob 347 873 5160
Eml d.mcginty at nfb.ca <mailto:d.mcginty at nfb.ca>
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