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Montreal, June 16, 2011 - The National Film Board celebrates National Aboriginal Day
The Pete Standing Alone Trilogy documents the successes, challenges and transformations experienced by the Blood Reserve in Alberta over the past 50 years. All three films revolve around Pete Standing Alone. The latest documentary installment Round Up
Most Canadians have never set foot on an Aboriginal reserve and God's Lake Narrows, created and written by Winnipeg artist Kevin Lee Burton and NFB Prairie Centre producer Alicia Smith, is designed to invite them in. To get beyond the stories of poverty, illness and death that cycle through the news, Burton invites viewers to visit the reserve where he grew up and experience it as he knows it. Interactive portraits of his friends, family members and their homes compel the audience to question their own assumptions about reserve life.
In addition to checking out exciting new releases such as the Pete Standing Alone Trilogy and God's Lake Narrows online as of June 21, the NFB invites audiences to engage with Aboriginal artists, stories and cultures every day of the year at About the NFB Canada's public producer and distributor, the National Film Board of Canada creates interactive works, social-issue documentaries, auteur animation and alternative dramas that provide the world with a unique Canadian perspective. The NFB is breaking new ground in form and content through interactive
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