Foster Child
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.
Year: 1987
Genre: Documentary
Studio: ONF | NFB
Director: Gil Cardinal
Cast: Gil Cardinal, Don Cardinal
Crew: Jim Jeffrey (Director of Photography), Gerald K. Wilson (Sound Editor), Barry Jones (Mix Technician), Jerry Krepakevich (Producer), Tom Radford (Executive Producer), Alan Bibby (Other)
Runtime: 43 minutes
Release: Mar 08, 1987
IMDb: 3.00/10 by 1 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Canada
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : canada, indigenous, foster child, biological mother, first nations, aboriginal, short film
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