Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1932-08-31
Place of Birth
Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Alanis Obomsawin
Biography
Alanis Obomsawin, OC (born August 31, 1932) is a Canadian filmmaker of Abenaki descent. Born in New Hampshire, and raised primarily in Quebec, she has produced and directed many National Film Board of Canada documentaries on First Nations culture and history. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alanis Obomsawin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance
as Narrator (voice)
Bones of Crows
as TRC Film Director
Capturing Reality
as Self
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
as Self
Rocks at Whiskey Trench
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Eliza's Horoscope
as Indian Maiden
Is the Crown at war with us?
as Narrator (voice)
Mother of Many Children
as Narrator (voice)
Incident at Restigouche
as Narrator
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger
as Narrator (voice)