Stay tuned for more details on the event.

For more information about Alanis Obomsawin please download her full biography and filmography here.

Alanis Obomsawin Biography

Alanis Obomsawin, a member of the Abenaki Nation, is one of Canada’s most distinguished filmmakers. For over four decades, she has directed documentaries at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) that chronicle the lives and concerns of First Nations people and explore issues of importance to all.

Winner of 18 international awards for her film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Ms. Obomsawin has created over 30 uncompromising documentaries with the NFB.

In September 2010, Ms. Obomsawin was inducted to the Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame. In the spring of 2009, Obomsawin was honored with an Outstanding Achievement Award Retrospective at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. In 2008, she was honoured with the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. In May of that same year, she was also the subject of a special retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.