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Foster Child (1987)
Directed by Gil Cardinal
Documentary · 43m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Gil Cardinal
- Director of Photography
- Jim Jeffrey
- Editor
- Alan Bibby
- Producer
- Jerry Krepakevich
Details
- Release date
- 1987-03-08
- Runtime
- 43m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Cree, English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- ONF | NFB