Six Miles Deep - Special Screening at the NFB

SIX MILES DEEP

May 12 and 13 at 7 PM
NFB CINEMA

Official Selection, 2009 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

Directed by Sara Roque, 2009, 43 minutes.

The confrontation over land rights between the Iroquois Confederacy and residents of Caledonia made headlines for months. Less known is the crucial role played by clan mothers who came to the defence of their land. With grace and honour, they rally the community on the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve—with a population of 20,000, the largest reserve in Canada. It is the clan mothers who set the rules for conduct, and when the community’s chiefs ask people to abandon the barricades, it is the clan mothers who over-rule them.

Six Miles Deep is an inspiring and compelling portrait of a group of women whose actions have led a cultural reawakening in their traditionally matriarchal community.

Join us for a discussion with producer Lea Marin following the screening on May 12.

$6, $4 for students, seniors and NFB Front Row members.

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