15th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Join us for the WORLD PREMIERE of imagineNATIVE award-winning director Tracey Deer’s new film
CLUB NATIVE
Friday April 18, 6:30pm
BE THE FIRST TO EMAIL info@imagineNATIVE.org and WIN TWO FREE TICKETS
Bloor Cinema
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Sunday April 20, 2:15pm
Royal Ontario Museum

Tracey won Best Documentary for her feature, MOHAWK GIRLS at imagineNATIVE in 2005. Her new film is a brave look at the lives of four inspiring and eloquent women (including Waneek Horn-Miller) whose lives are forever changed when they fall in love with the wrong guys and “marry out” of their Mohawk Nation.

CLUB NATIVE, Canada, 78 min.
Falling in love with the wrong person can have devastating repercussions for Mohawks on the Kahnawake reserve in Quebec. Award-winning director Tracey Deer takes a courageous look at her home community, raising questions of identity, history and tradition through the lives of four inspiring Mohawk women. With warmth, depth and humour, stories unfold about the heartbreaking costs of “marrying out” of their Mohawk Nation, the challenges faced by kids of mixed backgrounds, and the conflict between love and preserving the fabric of their community. Having children with the men they love can mean forfeiting their offspring’s legal native status, including the right to live with their families on the reserve. The film doesn’t flinch from the history of Canada’s racist and sexist government policy, including the brutal force used against them during the Oka Crisis in 1990. A groundbreaking film and a powerful story of the triumph of love and the human spirit.

TO BUY TICKETS:
http://hotdocsaudience.bside.com/2008/films/clubnative_hotdocs2008

Daytime Screenings Tickets (before 6 pm) $10, evening screenings (between 6 pm-11 pm) are $12 each and Late Night Screenings (after 11PM) are $5. Order advance tickets and pass sales at the DOCUMENTARY Box Office (87 Avenue Road, 2 Blocks North of Bloor, upper level of Hazelton Lanes), online at www.hotdocs.ca, or by phone at 416-637-5150. On the day of the screening, all daytime screenings are FREE for students and seniors with valid ID, courtesy of the Toronto Star.

Hot Docs runs from April 17-27th. Visit www.hotdocs.ca for further information and detailed film descriptions.

Umiaq Skin Boat
Jobie Weetaluktuk

6:45 PM Fri, Apr 18
plays with...
Shock Waves - another great film about the power of independent radio to radically transform and empower the people of the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo
Al Green Theatre

12:00 PM Sun, Apr 20
plays with… Shock Waves
Royal Ontario Museum Theatre

Jobie Weetaluktuk’s previous film, Urban Inuk, was a huge success at imagineNATIVE in 2005.

Run time: 31 min. | Canada | Language: Inuktitut
Against the harsh Arctic magnificence of Inukjuak, Quebec Inuit elders share intimate personal stories and remarkable tales of survival as they build the first traditional seal skin boat their community has seen in more than 50 years. Once an essential vessel for travelling and hunting, the umiaq has been usurped by canoes powered with outboard motors. Traditional survival skills are melting away as rapidly as the ice caps in the North where sugar, warm houses and video games are the new necessities. UMIAQ exquisitely connects the boat’s construction to building cultural cohesion through anchoring a community in its rich history. In Inuktitut with English subtitles.

To Buy tickets:
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