Foster Child
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| Release Date | 1987-03-08 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 43 minutes |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Stars | Gil Cardinal, Don Cardinal |
| Directors | Jerry Krepakevich, Gerald K. Wilson, Barry Jones, Alan Bibby, Graydon McCrea |
| Release Date | 1987-03-08 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 43 minutes |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Stars | Gil Cardinal, Don Cardinal |
| Directors | Jerry Krepakevich, Gerald K. Wilson, Barry Jones, Alan Bibby, Graydon McCrea |
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.
