EMC: Abstract: Voices of Experience, Voices for Change, Part 1*

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Voices of Experience, Voices for Change, Part 1*

• 1993 ----- color ----- 80 min ----- vhs
• (Constructing Reality: Exploring Media Issues in Documentary series) Whose stories get told in the media? Who gets to tell them? Who doesn't? These films give us voices from the social margins whose perceptions and experiences challenge the main-stream portrayal of their situations. Ballad of Crowfoot (11 min), In form a precursor of rock videos, this ballad recounts the opening of the Canadian West from the point of view of Aboriginal peoples--one of the first films to tell an "inside story" about Native history; Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child (30 min), a film about the suicide of a Metis boy, shuffled through seventeen foster homes in his short life (a powerful example of documentary advocacy); Interview with Alanis Obomsawin (8 min), singer, storyteller, and filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin talks about the making of Richard Cardinal, stressing the importance of documentary as a way of presenting voices and points of view that are seldom heard in the mass media; Foster Child (Excerpts) (14 min), director Gil Cardinal uses his own story to throw light on the experiences of many Aboriginal people with the child-welfare system; Of Lives Uprooted (10 min), the drawings and voices of Central American refugee children, who describe their flight from war-torn homelands, are featured in this striking example of the power of documentary to "bear witness". (Closed-Captioned) (Donated by the Department of Canadian Studies) (Restricted to use by institutions of learning within the State of Washington only)
• Topics: (American Ethnic Studies, American Indian Studies, Audiovisual Education, Canadian Studies, Communications, Latin America, Motion Pictures: Documentary)

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