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nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tasha Hubbard and released in 2019.[1] The film centres on the 2016 death of Colten Boushie, and depicts his family's struggle to attain justice after the controversial acquittal of Boushie's killer.[2] Narrated by Hubbard,[3] the film also includes a number of animated segments which contextualize the broader history of indigenous peoples of Canada.[4]

The film premiered in April 2019 as the opening film of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the first time the festival had ever selected an indigenous-themed film as its opening gala.[5] It subsequently had its commercial premiere at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on May 23, 2019,[6] before screening on a Canadian tour that included a week at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.[1]

The film received universally positive reviews from critics. As of October 2021, 100% of the seven reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of 8.6/10.[7] The film won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs,[8] the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the 2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festival,[1] and the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the 2019 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.[9] In January 2020, it was named the winner of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Canadian Documentary.[10] The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.[11]

A shorter edit of the film was also broadcast by CBC Television in fall 2019 as an episode of CBC Docs POV.

References

  1. ^ a b c "‘Canadians should see this film’: Colten Boushie doc sets out on national tour". Global News, May 22, 2019.
  2. ^ "Nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up reveals stirring activism in wake of headline-making death". Toronto Star, May 30, 2019.
  3. ^ "Colten Boushie documentary makes history as Hot Docs opener". CBC News, April 25, 2019.
  4. ^ "Hot Docs review: Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up". Now, April 18, 2019.
  5. ^ "Documentary on Colten Boushie story to open Toronto's Hot Docs festival". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 19, 2019.
  6. ^ "A matter of race; Award-winning Boushie documentary begins national tour in Saskatoon". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, May 16, 2019.
  7. ^ "nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  8. ^ "‘We Will Stand Up,’ ‘Hope Frozen’ Take Top Prizes at Hot Docs". Variety, May 4, 2019.
  9. ^ Pat Mullen, "‘nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up’ Wins Audience Choice Award at imagineNATIVE". Point of View, October 29, 2019.
  10. ^ "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'" Archived 2020-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
  11. ^ Brent Furdyk, "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Non-Fiction Winners Revealed". ET Canada, May 25, 2020.
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