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Foster Child

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Foster Child
NR 43 minDocumentary
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Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a nonIndigenous foster family and with this autobiographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her Considered a milestone in documentary cinema it addressed the countrys internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards
StarringGil CardinalDon Cardinal
DirectorGil Cardinal

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Graydon McCrea, Tom Radford
Production Companies:ONF NFB
Movie Tags:
short filmcanadaindigenousfirst nationsaboriginalfoster childbiological mother