nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | |
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Directed by | Tasha Hubbard |
Written by | Tasha Hubbard |
Produced by | Tasha Hubbard George Hupka Jon Montes |
Narrated by | Tasha Hubbard |
Cinematography | George Hupka |
Edited by | Hans Olson |
Music by | Jason Burnstick |
Production companies | Downstream Documentary Productions National Film Board of Canada |
Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages | English Cree |
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tasha Hubbard and released in 2019. [1] The film centres on the 2016 death of Colten Boushie, and depicts his family's struggle to attain justice after the controversial acquittal of Boushie's killer. [2] Narrated by Hubbard, [3] the film also includes a number of animated segments which contextualize the broader history of indigenous peoples of Canada. [4]
The film premiered in April 2019 as the opening film of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the first time the festival had ever selected an indigenous-themed film as its opening gala. [5] It subsequently had its commercial premiere at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on May 23, 2019, [6] before screening on a Canadian tour that included a week at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. [1]
The film received universally positive reviews from critics. As of October 2021 [update], 100% of the seven reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of 8.6/10. [7] The film won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs, [8] the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the 2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, [1] and the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the 2019 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. [9] In January 2020, it was named the winner of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Canadian Documentary. [10] The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. [11]
A shorter edit of the film was also broadcast by CBC Television in fall 2019 as an episode of CBC Docs POV.