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Honour Your Word @ Planet in Focus Film Festival

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HONOUR YOUR WORD will be presented at the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival in Toronto

with filmmaker Martha Stiegman,  Barriere Lake youth spokesperson Marylynn Poucachiche, Elder Toby Descoursney, and Dr. Shiri Pasternak of Barriere Lake Solidarity in attendance.

Friday, Nov. 7th, 3:00pm @ the Nat Taylor Cinema, York University

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/71470916

Honour Your Word is an intimate portrait of life behind the barricades for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, an inspiring First Nation whose dignity and courage contrast sharply with the political injustice they face. The title refers to their campaign slogan demanding Canada and Quebec honour a precedent-setting conservation deal signed in 1991. Director Martha Stiegman spent four years shooting this poetic, heartfelt documentary that challenges stereotypes of “angry Indians.” Honour Your Word juxtaposes starkly contrasting landscapes—the majesty of the bush, a dramatic highway stand-off against a riot squad, daily life within the confines of the reserve—to reveal the spirit of a people for whom blockading has become a part of their way of life, a life rooted in the forest they are defending.

for information on Barriere Lake: www.barrierelakesolidarity.org

Honour your word… screens under the stars

HONOUR YOUR WORD (French subtitled version) will be presented at the Cinéma sous les étoiles Festival in Montreal

with filmmaker Martha Stiegman and Barriere Lake Community spokespeople in attendance.

Tuesday, Aug. 12, 8:45pm at Parc Saint-Gabriel, corner Charlevoix / Grand Trunk, in Pointe-St-Charles, 2 mins walk from Charlevoix Metro.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/71470916

Honour Your Word is an intimate portrait of life behind the barricades for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, an inspiring First Nation whose dignity and courage contrast sharply with the political injustice they face. The title refers to their campaign slogan demanding Canada and Quebec honour a precedent-setting conservation deal signed in 1991. Director Martha Stiegman spent four years shooting this poetic, heartfelt documentary that challenges stereotypes of “angry Indians.” Honour Your Word juxtaposes starkly contrasting landscapes—the majesty of the bush, a dramatic highway stand-off against a riot squad, daily life within the confines of the reserve—to reveal the spirit of a people for whom blockading has become a part of their way of life, a life rooted in the forest they are defending.

for more details: http://cse2014.funambulesmedias.org/tenez-votre-parole/

for information on Barriere Lake: www.barrierelakesolidarity.org

Halifax Screening @ NSCAD – June 12th

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Join local activist Sherry Pictou, filmmaker Martha Stiegman and Cinema Politica co-founder and NSCAD research fellow Ezra Winton for a discussion on leveraging documentary art and spectatorship into political intervention and public activation. We will be launching the new Cinema Politica book Screening Truth to Power: A Reader on Documentary Activism as well as offering a special screening of Stiegman’s documentary HONOUR YOUR WORD (watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/71470916).

Admission is free and seating is limited, so please come on time (also the front door will be locked as of 7:10). There will be some refreshments served after the screening.

When: Thursday, June 12, 7PM
Where: NSCAD University, Academy Building, Room A-208, 1649 Brunswick
Cost: Free
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/250921178428306/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
Sponsors: Cinema Politica, Radical Imagination, NSCAD Division of Art History and Critical Studies, DOC Atlantic.

Screening at McCord Museum wednesday April 23

Honour your word (Tenez votre parole), a film by Martha Stiegman, will screen at the McCord Museum in Montreal on Wednesday, April 23, 6 pm, in honour of Earth Day.

The film will be presented in English with French subtitles. Admission free, but seats limited.

Théatre J.A. Bombardier, McCord Museum, 690, Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec (Metro McGill).

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