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Walking is Medicine
20175 min 8 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Alanis Obomsawin
Production: Alanis Obomsawin (National Film Board of Canada)Annette Clarke (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Alanis Obomsawin
Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
Inspired and motivated by their ancestors’ resilience, stamina and fortitude when crossing great distances in the winter months, six young Cree men from the Whapmagoostui First Nation trekked 1,600 km to Parliament Hill. Walking is Medicine takes us on their remarkable journey as the youth reach Ottawa and connect with others from many Nations who all strive for a better future.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Cultural IdentityLifestylesQuébec and Ontario
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Customs and Traditions
- Roles & Relationships > Children & Youth
- Indigenous Peoples: Canada > Cree
- Indigenous Governance General (Modern, Contemporary) > Protests, Activism, Popular Political Movements, Resistance, Conflicts
Credits
- director
- Alanis Obomsawin
- writer
- Alanis Obomsawin
- editor
- Alison Burns
- camera
- René Sioui Labelle
- location sound
- Glenn Hodgins
- original music
- Alain Auger
- narration
- Alanis Obomsawin
- music recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- voice recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- sound editor
- Don Ayer
- mix
- Jean-Paul Vialard
- on-line
- Denis Pilon
- producer
- Alanis Obomsawin
- administrator
- Camila Blos
- legal counsel
- Dominique Aubry
- executive producer
- Annette Clarke
- executive director
- Michelle van Beusekom