Aboriginal filmmaker.

Writer, Alanis Obomsawin ; director, Alanis Obomsawin ; editor, Yurij Luhovy ; camera, Roger Rochat, Jean-Claude Labrecque, Philippe Amiguet, Susan Trow, François Brault, Barry Perles, Zoe Dirse, Jocelyn Simard, André-Luc Dupont, Savas Kalogeras ; location sound, Raymond Marcoux, Robert Verebely, Ismaël Cordeiro, Marie-France Delagrave, Catherine Van Der Donckt, Serge Fortin, Juan Gutiérrez ; original music composer, Claude Vendette, Francis Grandmont ; sound editor, Tony Reed, Don Ayer ; research, Alanis Obomsawin ; original drawings, Robert Verrall ; re-recording mixer, Jean-Pierre Joutel ; voice recording, Michel Chalut ; animation camera, Pierre Landry, Lynda Pelley ; producer, Wolf Koenig, Alanis Obomsawin ; executive producer, Colin Neale.

Voice, Jack Burning, Herbie Barnes ; narrator, Alanis Obomsawin.

Recorded 1993.

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien'kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for an historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness. Director Alanis Obomsawin - at times with a small crew, at times alone - spent 78 days behind Kanien'kéhaka lines filming the armed standoff between protestors, the Québec police and the Canadian army. Released in 1993, this landmark documentary has been seen around the world, winning over a dozen international awards and making history at the Toronto International Film Festival where it became the first documentary to ever win the Best Canadian Feature Award. Jesse Wente, Director of Canada's Indigenous Screen Office, has called it a "watershed film in the history of First Peoples cinema.".

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

NFB Feature Documentary Award - with a cash prize of 500$ (Tied with In the Land of the Deaf), 1993 Special Award, 1993 Award of Excellence for Best Editing, 1993 CITY TV Award for Best Canadian Feature Film - with a cash prize of 25,000$, 1993 IDA Award - Distinguished Documentary Achievement, 1993 American Indian Motion Picture Awards - Best Documentary Feature Film, 1993 Special Jury Award in Division Film and Video - Category: 5 - Current Affairs, 1994 "We are Sovereign" Award, 1993 Special Award - Documentary Jury, 1993 Silver Sesterce - Special Jury Award given to a cinematographic work, 1993 Best Long Documentary Award, 1997

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).