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Guest Biographies

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  • Alanis Obomsawin is a Canadian filmmaker, singer and artist of Abenaki descent. She has produced over 30 documentaries on Aboriginal rights and issues for the National Film Board of Canada. Her work was the subject of a book entitled Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker, the first text to focus exclusively on Aboriginal filmmaking. In 2001, Obomsawin received a Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and her work was the subject of a retrospective organized by the Museum of Modern Art of New York.

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  • Heperi Mita is the son of the late documentary filmmaker Merata Mita, and has spent the past year gathering and cataloguing her extensive body of work at the New Zealand Film Archive.

Films in Incident at Restigouche / Bastion Point Day 507 introduced by Alanis Obomsawin and Heperi Mita

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  • Incident at Restigouche
  • Alanis Obomsawin

  • Alanis Obomsawin's landmark documentary chronicles the shameful 1981 raid by Quebec police against a Mi'gmaq reservation to enforce fishing restrictions that targeted the livelihood of the Indigenous community.

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  • Bastion Point Day 507
  • Merata Mita, Leon Narbey, Gerd Pohlmann

  • Merata Mita's vivid, on-the-ground record of the New Zealand police's raid against a peaceful occupation by Maori activists became an invaluable tool in the campaign to change the country's policy towards its Indigenous peoples.

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