Film
Foster Child
1987 · 43m · Documentary
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- 8.2
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Overview
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
- Gil CardinalDirector
- Jerry KrepakevichProducer
- Tom RadfordExecutive Producer
- Graydon McCreaExecutive Producer
- Jim JeffreyDirector of Photography
- Alan BibbyEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- March 8, 1987
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 43m
- Genres
- Documentary
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