Foster Child (1987)

Status: Released
Original Language: English
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Production: ONF | NFB
Production Countries: Canada
Spoken Languages: English

Name: Foster Child
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1987-03-08
Duration: 43 min
Rating: 3
Cast: Gil Cardinal, Don Cardinal

Mar 08, 1987 Documentary 0h 43m

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82%

Overview

Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.