Alanis Obomsawin
Abenaki Nation
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One of the most acclaimed Indigenous directors in the world, Alanis Obomsawin came to cinema from performance and storytelling. Hired by the NFB as a consultant in 1967, she has created an extraordinary body of work鈥�50 films and counting鈥攊ncluding landmark documentaries like听Incident at Restigouche听(1984) and听Kanehsatake: 270 Years of听Resistance听(1993). The Abenaki director has received numerous international honours and her work was showcased in a 2008 retrospective at New York鈥檚 Museum of Modern Art. 鈥淢y main interest all my life has been education,鈥� says Obomsawin, 鈥渂ecause that鈥檚 where you develop yourself, where you learn to hate, or to love.鈥�