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Synopsis: At age thirty-five, Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his coming into foster care as an infant. Foster Child is a documentary--unstaged and unrehearsed--about the process of that discovery, beginning with his fruitless attempt to see his own file.… Read more

Year of Production: 2009

Country: Canada

Narrated in Inuktitut, Shaping our Future provides a brief overview of the Inuit Art Foundation and its many activities. Combining footage from the Arctic with scenes filmed at the foundation’s headquarters in Ottawa, the 12-minute video follows IAF’s evolution from publisher of a modest newsletter into a model organization for indigenous groups worldwide.… Read more

A brief overview of the activities of the non-profit Inuit Art Foundation, which exists to facilitate the creative expressions of Inuit artists and to foster a broader understanding of these expressions worldwide.

Filmmaker Contact:

www.inuitart.org

Year of Production: 2004

Country: Canada

Demonstration of Indianness #31 is a short experimental film based on old home movies that the artist's grandfather shot in the 50's. The film is as much a portrait of a struggle and a declaration of identity, as it is a questioning into the history of documentation and anthropology.

Filmmaker: Adam Garnet Jones

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To know the real history of Canada

Filmmaker: Eddy Malenfant

Filmmaker Contact:

www.innuaitun.com eddy@maikan.com

Producer's Name: Zacharie Bellefleur

Year of Production: 2003

Distributor Information:

To know the history of Cananda

Filmmaker: Eddty Malenfant

Filmmaker Contact:

www.innuaitun.com eddy@maikan.com

Producer's Name: Zacharie Bellefleur Eddy Malenfant

Year of Production: 2003

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This is the history of Canada with a innu point of view.

Filmmaker: Eddy Malenfant

Filmmaker Contact:

www.innuaitun.com eddy@maikan.com

Producer's Name: Zacharie Bellefleur

Year of Production: 2003

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In 1994, fulfilling the wish of 94 year-old Noah Piugattuk to taste whale-skin maqtaq once again before he passes away, a group of Igloolik hunters illegally catches a bowhead whale after years of government prohibition. This event which sparks a legal controversy, the hunters are charged, government policy is resisted, then changed..