The National Film Board of Canada

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27 April 2010

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The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is Canada's public film producer and distributor.

For over 70 years, the NFB has created socially engaged documentary, auteur animation, alternative drama and more.

Along the way, we’ve crafted over 12,000 productions and received more than 5000 awards, including 12 Oscars® and more than 90 Genies.

Today, we’re at the crossroads of innovation in the 21st century, bringing a tradition of trailblazing to the multi-platform digital universe.

Visit our website to watch over 700 documentaries and animated films : http://NFB.ca

If you want to get in touch, you can contact us here: http://nfb.ca/about/contact-us/

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3m 46s

VISTAS - CARRYING FIRE/VISTAS - FEU PORTANT

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis: Carrying Fire weaves together animation and live action to show how the fire of our spirit is passed from one camp and one generation to the next.

Feu portant entrelace animation et réel pour illustrer la façon dont le feu de notre esprit se transmet d'un campement et d'une génération à l'autre.

Filmmaker: Marie Burke
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
55m 17s

THROUGH THESE EYES

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis: This riveting documentary reveals how an educational dream became a bitter political battle over cultural differences.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
27m 23s

STARBLANKET

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis: At twenty-six, Noel Starblanket is one of the youngest Indian chiefs in North America--twice elected chief of the Starblanket Reserve, and also elected vice-president of all Saskatchewan Indians. His great-grandfather's advice was to "learn the wit and cunning of the White man." That he did.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
29m 14s

RICHARD CARDINAL: CRY FROM A DIARY OF A METIS CHILD

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis: A moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984. He had been taken from his home at the age of four because of family problems, and spent the rest of his seventeen short years moving in and out of twenty-eight foster homes, group homes and shelters in Alberta.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
32m 35s

LIVING STONE, THE

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis: This film shows the inspiration, often related to belief in the supernatural, behind Inuit sculpture. The Inuit's approach to the work is to release the image the artist sees imprisoned in the rough stone. The film centres on an old legend about the carving of the image of a sea spirit to bring food to a hungry camp.

Filmmaker: John Feeney
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
37m 19s

LAND OF THE LONG DAY

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Synopsis: During the short Arctic summer on Baffin Island, the native Inuit enjoys four months of continuous daylight. But it is no time for relaxation, for provision must be made for the long, cold winter night ahead. In this film Idlouk, an Inuit hunter, tells of his life in this northern land.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
46m 10s

INCIDENT AT RESTIGOUCHE

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis: On June 11 and 20, 1981, the Québec Provincial Police (QPP) raided Restigouche Reserve, Québec. This film provides a historical perspective on the issue, and documents, with newsclips, photographs and interviews, the two police raids.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
43m 9s

FOSTER CHILD

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

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.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
32m 6s

ENCOUNTER WITH SAUL ALINSKY - PART 2: RAMA INDIAN RESERVE

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis: A provocative film in which articulate young Indians test their inherent, tolerant philosophy against the more pragmatic ideas of Saul Alinsky. The Indians argue for a revision of the hundred-year-old Indian Act by peaceful persuasion. Alinsky advocates a more direct development of power to bring about the changes they seek.
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
57m 18s

DANCING AROUND THE TABLE, PART ONE

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Synopsis: A film about the three Conferences on the Constitutional Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada (1983-84-85), focussing on the concept of self-government.

Only available in English/Version anglaise seulement.

Filmmaker: Maurice Bulbulian

Contact: National Film Board of Canada

Producer: National Film Board of Canada
… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
57m 55s

CREE HUNTERS OF MISTASSINI

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis: During the winter since times predating agriculture, the Cree of Mistassini have gone to the bush of the James and Ungava Bay area to hunt. Three hunting families agreed to meet an NFB crew, who filmed the building of the winter camp, the hunting, the relationship to the land, and the rhythms of Cree family life.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010
29m 40s

CIRCLE OF THE SUN

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channel: The National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis: At the 1956 gathering of the Blood Indians of Alberta, the exciting spectacle of the Sun Dance was captured on film for the first time.… Uqalimakkanirit

uploaded date: 29-04-2010