Still from Flat Rocks
Still from Flat Rocks
 

Flat Rocks

by Courtney Montour
In the 1950's, a man battles against the construction of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway to save his farm and the Kahnawake Mohawk community.
2017  ·  10m  ·  Canada
English
About the Film
Flat Rocks takes an intimate and never-before-seen look at 79 year-old farmer Louis Diabo’s relentless battle against the construction of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway that tore through his land and the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in the 1950s, forever changing the landscape and the livelihood of the community.
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About the Director

Courtney Montour

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Courtney Montour is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) filmmaker from Kahnawà:ke whose work explores issues of Indigenous identity. Her recent documentary Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again (2021, produced by the National Film Board of Canada), shares the powerful story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for more than two decades to challenge sex discrimination against First Nations women in Canada’s Indian Act and became a key figure in Canada’s women’s rights movement. Courtney directed, wrote and co-produced Flat Rocks (2017), a short documentary revealing how the development of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway forever changed the landscape and the livelihood of the Kahnawake Mohawk community. Her first documentary Sex Spirit Strength (2015) won Best of Festival and the Emerging Filmmaker award at the 2016 Yorkton Film Festival. She has directed episodes for several documentary series including Mohawk Ironworkers (2016) and Skindigenous seasons 2 and 3 (2019, 2021). Courtney co-founded and coordinated McGill University’s Indigenous Field Studies course, held in Kahnawake, for eight years.

 

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