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Mohawk Girls
200553 min 3 secFilm: Documentaire
Réalisation: Tracey Deer
Production: Joanne RobertsonLinda LudwickChristina FonAdam Symansky (National Film Board of Canada)Catherine BainbridgeErnest WebbSally Bochner
Scénarisation: Tracey Deer
Produced by Rezolution Pictures International Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, with the financial participation of the Film and Television Tax Credit - Gestion SODEC, SODEC - Programmes d'aide aux jeunes créateurs, and The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, in association with APTN, and with the collaboration of Télé-Québec.
The massive Mercier Bridge looms over the eastern end of the Kahnawake 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. Move away and you risk losing your credibility, or worse, your rights as a Mohawk. Stay and you forego untold experiences and opportunities in the "outside world."
Like nearly half of the teenagers in Kahnawake, filmmaker Tracey Deer utilized government subsidies to attend private school in Montreal. Vowing never to return, she then left the reserve to attend college in the U.S. Now a graduate of Dartmouth University, she has come home to Kahnawake to play a role in the evolution of her community.
With insight, humour and compassion, 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 Indigenous youth culture. Deeply emotional yet unsentimental, it reveals the hope, despair, heartache and promise of growing up Indigenous at the beginning of the 21st century.
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- Peuples autochtones au Canada (Premières Nations et Métis) > JeunesseIdentité culturelleQuébec et OntarioRéserves
- Enfants et Jeunes > Enfants autochtones
- Études autochtones > Histoire/PolitiqueIdentité/SociétéEnjeux et défis contemporains
- Économie domestique/Étude de la famille > Relations
Générique
- écriture
- Tracey Deer
- réalisateur
- Tracey Deer
- producteur
- Joanne Robertson
- Linda Ludwick
- Christina Fon
- Adam Symansky
- producteur exécutif
- Catherine Bainbridge
- Ernest Webb
- Sally Bochner
- directeur de la photographie
- Tracey Deer
- caméra additionnelle
- Bill Kerrigan
- Alan Kohl
- Pablo Aravena
- Francis Miquet
- Alexandre Bussière
- Steve Bonspiel
- son
- Marco Fania
- Lynne Trépanier
- prise de son additionnelle
- Steve Bonspiel
- Tod Van Dyk
- Lisa Dargensio
- John Dee Delormier
- narration
- Tracey Deer
- monteur
- Patricia Tassinari
- montage additionnel
- Tracey Deer
- Simon Webb
- montage en ligne
- Tony Manolikakis
- mixage son
- Bruno Bélanger
- Mona Laviolette
- musique originale
- Mona Laviolette
- Linda Ludwick
- cabinet comptable
- Linda Ludwick
- assistant de production
- Brian Webb
- assistant à la postproduction
- Jacob Kent
- traduction
- Claire Valade
- Natalie Dubois
- Anne-Marie Gauthier
- traduction supplémentaire
- Sonia Poisson
- coach de dialectes
- Sonia Poisson
- Danielle Valade
- consultant
- Mike Ryan
- assurances
- B.F. Lorenzetti
- Lucie Trottier
- vérificateur
- Rapp Hecht Heft
- Raymond Lamoureux