(NAME-MCE) Call for Reviewers - Documentaries on Native American Studies

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Subject:  Call for Reviewers - Documentaries on Native American  Studies

From:Dylan Maddox McGinty
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>
Call for Reviewers

The National Film  Board of Canada is seeking qualified reviewers to
write academic reviews  (like a book review) about the following
documentary films, and place the  review in an academic journal,
newsletter, website, etc.  The NFB cannot  contact journal editors and
place the review: This will be the responsibility  of the writer.
Please contact me directly off-list for further information,  thank
you.


WABAN-AKI: PEOPLE FROM WHERE THE SUN RISES
Yvonne  M'Sadoques rocks forward in her chair. She's lived in the
Abenaki community  of Odanak for over a century - and has no shortage
of stories to tell. "The  priest would march into our home and order us
to stop dancing. We were going  to the devil, he said." She pauses, a
humorous glint in her eye. "But you  know - I don't really believe in
the devil. Do you?" M'Sadoques is in  conversation with Alanis
Obomsawin, another of Odanak's proud daughters - and  one of Canada's
leading documentary filmmakers.

WAPOS BAY  SERIES
Includes English and Cree versions. Six half hour episodes in  the
animated (stopmotion) series on portraits of life on a fictional  Cree
reserve in Northern Saskatchewan. It deals with contemporary  issues
for aboriginal people from a child's point of view.

FINDING  DAWN
Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three  of
the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or  been
murdered in Canada over the past thirty years. Directed by  acclaimed
Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, Finding Dawn is a  compelling
documentary that puts a human face to this  tragedy. Along  the road we
uncover reason for hope. It lives in Native rights activists  Professor
Janice Acoose and Fay Blaney. It drives events such as the  annual
Women's Memorial March and inspires communities all along the  length
of Highway 16 to come together to demand change.Finding  Dawn
illustrates the deep historical, social and economic factors  that
contribute to the epidemic of violence against Native women in  this
country. It goes further to present the ultimate message that  stopping
the violence is everyone's responsibility.

FIRST STORIES  VOLUMES 1 AND 2 (Society for Visual Anthropology Winner)
In First Stories -  Volume 1, four Aboriginal filmmakers explore the
realities of their lives in  21st century Canada. With humor and
compassion, their films deal with a range  of topics including Native
culture/identity, Native traditions, Native art  and street gangs.
First Stories - Volume II features The Power of a Horse,  Life Givers:
Honouring Our Elders and Children, O Mother, Where Art Thou?  and
ati-wîcahsin (It's Getting Easier), four new short films from  four
emerging Saskatchewan filmmakers - Tessa Desnomie, Cory  Generoux,
Jainine Windolph and Paul John Swiderski.

GANG  AFTERMATH
Gang Aftermath follows the lives of former gang members and  gang
associates who have put their destructive pasts behind them while,  at
the same time, telling their stories to prevent others from  making
similar mistakes. Best Public Service Award at the American  Indian
Film Festival in San Francisco.

FLIGHT FROM DARKNESS
>From a  remote Dene community in Saskatchewan,Percy Paul excelled in
school and  sports, and eventually made it to Princeton, working
alongside one of the  world's leading authorities on string theory,
black holes and quantum field  theory. But all this changed when he
turned 28. Percy became an alcoholic in  an effort to cope with his
extreme mood swings. After a failed suicide  attempt, he was diagnosed
with bipolar  disorder.







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