A master class led by Alanis Obomsawin is being hosted by Emily Carr University of Art + Design and UBC’s Department of Theatre and Film. The class is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, March 6
7pm to 10pm
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Aboriginal Gathering Place
Alanis Obomsawin is a member of the Abenaki Nation, She began her career as a singer, writer and storyteller, but dove into filmmaking in 1967 with Christmas at Moose Factory. Her early films include Incident at Restigouche (1984), a powerful depiction of the Quebec police raid of a Micmac reserve; Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child (1986), the disturbing examination of an adolescent suicide; and No Address (1988), a look at Montreal’s homeless.
Ms. Obomsawin is best known for her feature-length film on the 1990 Mohawk uprising in Kanehsatake and Oka: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993), which won 18 international awards.
Most recently, Ms. Obomsawin directed the 2007 National Film Board of Canada documentary Gene Boy Came Home, about Vietnam War veteran Eugene “Gene Boy” Benedict, from her home community of Odanak.