Free Political Film Screenings Cinema Politica is a project organized by Montréal-based non-profit überculture, and comprises a network of several local film exhibition series across Canada, Europe and the USA.

You Are On Indian Land

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Concordia University (Montreal)
Monday March 1, 2010
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: Room H-110, 1455 de Maisonneuve O, Concordia University

Join us for this special double bill: You Are On Indian Land followed by the beautiful new documentary A Tent On Mars.

This is event is in conjunction with the launch of the new book from McGill-Queen's University Press, Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada co-edited by Cinema Politica's Ezra Winton (with Thomas Waugh and Michael Brendan Baker). Guest speakers will introduce the evening.

First Film:You Are On Indian Land

The classic 1969 NFB doc that puts the audience in the middle of conflict between First Nations and police

Mort Ransen / Canada / 1969 / 37 minutes

The film shows the confrontation between police and a 1969 demonstration by Mohawks of the St. Regis Reserve on the bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. By blocking traffic on the bridge, which is on the Reserve, the Indians drew public attention to their grievance that they were prohibited by Canadian authorities from duty-free passage of personal purchases across the border, a right they claim was established by the Jay Treaty of 1794.

Credits

Director
Mort Ransen
Producer
George C. Stoney
Photography
Tony Ianzelo
Sound
Hans Oomes
Editing
Kathleen Shannon
Re-recording
George Croll
Jean-Pierre Joutel

Awards & Festivals

Etrog: Special Award for Reportage given to Michael Rubbo

Genie Awards
October 3 1970, Toronto - Canada

Blue Ribbon Award

Itinerant - American Film and Video Festival
May 12 to 16 1970, New York - USA

Film site & Reviews

» official site

Second Film: A Tent on Mars

A visual poem that weaves together the story of land and people

Martin Bureau / Canada / 2008 / 58 min

Thirty years after the closing of the Schefferville’s mining colony, and after taking over the town abandoned by non natives, the Innus are facing a new challenge: the reopening of the iron mines. Territory, identity and legitimacy are at the heart of a dialogue between two people, Quebecers and First Nations, living the same combat. Two civilizations that proclaim to be colonized. Although the first one often times acts as the colonizer. Whose territory is it? Do the natives have the same right to self-determination as the Quebecers? UNE TENTE SUR MARS is a poetic gift to a complicated situation.