MFG News:
From: MFG Member Tracey Deer
Contact: doedeer22@aol.com
Date: Feb. 7, 2006
Press release:
Award-winning MOHAWK GIRLS documentary film by Tracey Deer
English TV Premiere: Thursday, February 9, 2006 on the Aboriginal Peoples
Television Network (APTN)
Official Selection Rendez-vous du cinˇma quˇbˇcois 2006
Montreal, Tuesday January 24, 2006 – Rezolution
Pictures is pleased to announce the English TV Premiere of MOHAWK GIRLS, a
documentary directed by Tracey Deer. This co-production with the National Film
Board of Canada will air nation-wide on APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television
Network) Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 9 pm. The film will also be featured at
the Rendez-vous du cinˇma quˇbˇcois Sunday, February 19, 2006.
The massive Mercier Bridge looms over the eastern end of
the Kahnawake Native reserve carrying commuters into the city of Montreal. For
Amy, Lauren and Felicia, three Mohawk teens living in its shadow, the bridge
also serves as a constant reminder of the bustling world just beyond the
borders of their tiny community.
Like typical teenagers, all three are wrestling with
critical decisions about their futures. But for these girls, there is more at
stake. The rules on the reserve can be strict and unforgiving.
With insight, humour and compassion, Mohawk filmmaker
Tracey Deer takes us inside the lives of these three teenagers as they tackle
the same issues of identity, culture and family she faced a decade earlier.
Like her, they are outspoken, honest and wise beyond their years. Shot over two
years, and interspersed with home videos from Deer's own adolescence, MOHAWK
GIRLS provides a surprising inside look at modern Aboriginal youth culture.
Deeply emotional yet unsentimental, it reveals the hope, despair, heartache and
promise of growing up Native at the beginning of the 21st century.
MOHAWK GIRLS has been selected by more than 10 festivals
in Canada and the USA and won Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary award at
Toronto’s ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.
Tracey Deer is an up-and-coming talent on the Canadian
documentary scene. Before MOHAWK GIRLS, she co-directed the feature-length
documentary One More River (2004) about the controversial 2002 Paix-des-Braves
agreement between the Cree and Quebec. The film was nominated for a Gemini for
the Donald Brittain Award for Best social/political Documentary Program and won
the Prix Pierre et Yolande Perreault for meilleur espoir documentaire at the
Rendez-vous du cinˇma quˇbˇcois. In 2000, Tracey graduated in film studies at
Dartmouth College where she shot, directed and edited three short films before
receiving the 25th Anniversary Film and Television Award for overall
achievement in film studies.
Rezolution Pictures International is an award-winning production
company based in Montreal that produces both documentary and fiction for
television. It’s recent productions include the award-winning One More
River; Cree Spoken Here, winner of the Telefilm Canada/APTN Best Aboriginal
Documentary Award, Dab Iyiyuu, a documentary series on traditional native
elders. Rezolution is currently in production with Moose TV, a comedy series
for Showcase Television. MOHAWK GIRLS is a co-production with the National Film
Board of Canada.
Rezolution Pictures International presents
MOHAWK GIRLS
A documentary film by Tracey Deer (2005, 53 min.)
Produced by Joanne Robertson, Christina Fon and Linda
Ludwick for Rezolution Pictures and Adam Symansky for the National Film Board
of Canada.
English TV Premiere on APTN Thursday, February 9, 2006 at
9 pm
Screening at the Rendez-vous du cinema quˇbˇcois (www.rvcq.com)
Sunday, February 19, 6pm
Cinˇmath¸que Quˇbˇcoise/Fernand Sˇguin Room (335, de
Maisonneuve Blvd.)
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Director Tracey Deer is available for interviews.
Contact media:
Steve Bonspiel
514-272-3077
Fax: 514-278-9914
Rezolution Pictures:
514.272-8241
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