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posted by Robert DeVet in on Mar 1, 2015 - View profile
Halifax
Documentary: Honour your word
7:00pm
- 9:00pm
Monday March 2 2015
Venue: Mi'kmaq Native Friendship Centre
Address: Gottingen Street
"Honour Your Word" is a portrait of life behind the barricades for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake. The title refers to their demand that 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 on the reserve—to reveal the spirit of a people for whom blockading has become an unfortunate part of their way of life, a life rooted in the piece of Boreal Forest they are defending.
Watch the trailer at: http://vimeo.com/71470916
or see the film website for more info.: http://honouryourword-film.ca/
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