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Acts of Defiance
19921 h 44 min 34 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Alec MacLeod
Production: Mark ZannisDennis Murphy
Script: Mark Zannis
This feature-length documentary recounts the events that surrounded and led to the Oka Crisis of the summer of 1990. The film focuses on the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake, in Quebec, but also reflects on the relationship between Canada and Indigneous peoples at a particular time in history.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > DiscriminationLand Claims and RightsQuébec and OntarioReserves
- Politics and Government - Canada > Indigenous ConcernsMunicipal Politics and GovernmentQuébec
- War, Conflict and Peace > Indigenous Concerns
- History - Canada - 1946-Present > Québec
Credits
- director
- Alec MacLeod
- producer
- Mark Zannis
- script
- Mark Zannis
- narrator
- Mark Zannis
- executive producer
- Dennis Murphy
- cinematography
- René Sioui Labelle
- Barry Perles
- Roger Martin
- Savas Kalogeras
- Zoe Dirse
- sound
- Richard Nichol
- Michel Grezlak
- Jacques Drouin
- Louis Marion
- Robert Verebely
- Justine Pimlott
- Marie-France Delagrave
- Claude Hamel
- editing
- Roger Hart
- sound editing
- Wojtek Klis
- Don Ayer
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- Shelley Craig
- music
- Jean Derome
Awards
- Best Documentary Feature Film AwardAnnual American Indian Film Festival
- Bronze Apple AwardNational Educational Media Network Competition