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Following a historic court case filed by the Assembly of First Nations and the Child and Family Caring Society of Canada against the federal government, Alanis Obomsawin exposes generations of injustices endured by First Nations children living on reserves and their families.
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5 oct. 2016 · Alanis Obomsawin, the 84-year-old filmmaker of Abenaki descent and member of the Order of Canada, was there to witness it all, capturing the trial in the thorough, eye-opening new documentary We Can't Make The Same Mistake Twice for the National Film Board.
We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice is a 2016 Canadian documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin about the First Nations activist Cindy Blackstock and her court case against the federal government of Canada for underfunding social services to children living on First Nations reserves.
In this documentary, distinguished filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin focuses her lens on the landmark discrimination case filed by the Assembly of First Nations and...
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In the powerful documentary ‘We Can’t Make The Same Mistake Twice’, Dr. Cindy Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, took a complaint before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2007. This began what was to be a landmark discrimination case spanning nine years against The ...
7 sept. 2016 · POV: Your new film, We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice, covers the landmark court case where the federal government had to decide whether the human rights of children on the reserves were—and always had been—violated. The leading figure in the case was Cindy Blackstock from the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of ...
We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice. Alanis Obomsawin. 2016 | 2 h 42 min. Trailer. The rights of First Nations children take centre stage in this monumental documentary.
