Resumo

Screening of award-winning documentary from Canada «A TENT ON MARS» (60min)

Thirty years after the closing of the Schefferville's mining colony, and after taking over the town abandoned by non natives, the Innus are facing a new challenge: the reopening of the iron mines. Territory, identity and legitimacy are at the heart of a dialogue between two people, Quebecers and First Nations, living the same combat. Two civilizations that proclaim to be colonized. Although the first one often times acts as the colonizer. Whose territory is it? Do the natives have the same right to self-determination as the Quebecers? UNE TENTE SUR MARS is a poetic gift to a complicated situation.

The documentary will be follow by a discussion facilitated by Alison Neilson, with the director about the present political and social situation of the Native in Quebec and Canada.

*English trailer* http://artthreat.net/2010/03/a-tent-on-mars/

Appointed to the 2010 Jutra Award in the documentary category | Special Mention of the Juri Pierre Perrault Prize, Rendez-vous du CinémaQuébécois, Montréal, Canada, 2009 | Best First or second documentary, Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québéquois, 2009

Nota biográfica do realizador

Born in Hull, Luc Renaud works and lives in Quebec City. After studies in geography (Université de Sherbrooke, 1997) and oceanography (Université du Québec à Rimouski, 2000), he made a number of trips abroad combining cultural experiences with social fieldwork in Africa and Latin America. He also spent 15 months with the Matimekush-Lac-John Innu in subarctic Quebec, a journey that sparked the idea for his documentary Une tente sur Mars, co-directed with Martin Bureau. He is currently a doctoral candidate in geography at Université de Montréal and also teaches the subject at the college level.