Gil Cardinal
Himself
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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 non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical 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 country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.
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| Release Date | 1987-03-08 |
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| Runtime | 43m |
| Directors | Gil Cardinal, Jim Jeffrey |
| Producers | Jerry Krepakevich, Graydon McCrea, Tom Radford |
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