Kiviaq Versus Canada
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Concordia University (Montreal)
Monday February 16, 2009
Screening begins 19h50
Venue: Room H-110, 1455 de maisonneuve
KIVIAQ will be preceded by IN DEFENSE OF OUR TREATIES and is part of an evening of cinema from ISUMA TV, who will have speakers present.
Kiviaq Versus Canada
Canada's first Inuit lawyer and former boxer takes on the government of Canada.
Zacharias Kunuk/ Canada/ 2006/ 46 min
"...a powerful documentary.... beautifully made and
angry, it is a startling and cogent story"
- The Globe & Mail
Zacharias Kunuk, the award-winning director of Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (Camera d'or,Cannes 2001), travels to Edmonton to meet Kiviaq, Canada's first Inuit lawyer, who was also a
former Golden Gloves boxing champion, a City Alderman, and the only Inuk ever to play on the Edmonton Eskimos CFL football team.
Kiviaq's extraordinary life story bears testimony to the treatment indigenous people of the Canadian Arctic have endured for generations due to the government's inhumane colonial
policies. Now dying of cancer, the life-long fighter is embroiled in the last and most important fight of his life, as he sues the Canadian government to secure for Inuit people something they deserve and have never had - the same official status as all the other aboriginal peoples of Canada. As his friendship with Kiviaq develops, director Zacharias Kunuk learns new ways to take a stand for his own rights as an Inuk.
An important political documentary about indigenous human rights, Kiviaq versus Canada focuses on Canada’s colonialist policies in the Arctic over the last 100 years, Canadian law, and the current status of Inuit in Canadian society.
Kiviaq Versus Canada - Trailer from Ezra Winton on Vimeo.
Credits
DIRECTOR(S): Zacharias Kunuk
PRODUCER(S): Katarina Soukup, Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc., Kunuk Cohn Productions Inc
WRITER(S): Katarina Soukup, Zacharias Kunuk
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: François Beauchemin
EDITOR(S): Augustin Rioux
SOUND DESIGN: Eric LeMoyne
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Norman Cohn
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