Hot Docs 2009 Festival Guide

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Is the Crown at War with Us?

Dir(s): Alanis Obomsawin

Program: Outstanding Achievement

Run Time: 96 | Canada  | Language:  

In 1999, after a Supreme Court of Canada decision upholds their treaty rights to fish for a "moderate livelihood" in their traditional waters, the Mi'kmaq community of Esgenoôpetitj (Burnt Church) First Nation in New Brunswick is overjoyed. With a 35% unemployment rate, setting a few lobster traps often puts supper on the table. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), however, claims the Mi'kmaq's 5,600 traps are a violation of conservation, even though they permit 240,000 non-Aboriginal commercial traps in the same area. Gritty and compelling footage shows an armada of huge commercial and DFO boats in an altercation with a handful of small Mi'kmaq boats. Traps are destroyed, a respected community member is beaten bloody, and a government boat repeatedly rams a Mi'kmaq boat at full speed. Fifteen million dollars later, an elder sums it up perfectly: "Where do they get all this money to fight the Indians? It seems crazy to me." Gisèle Gordon.

Co-presented with imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

Credits

Director(s) : Alanis Obomsawin

Producer(s) : Alanis Obomsawin

Subjects

Is the Crown at War with Us? deals with the following subjects: Aboriginal & First Nations Cultures and Issues, Activism, Racism & Intolerance, War and Conflict

Screenings

Is the Crown at War with Us? will be presented at the following times and locations.

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4:45 pm Sat, May 9

The ROM Theatre

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