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2008 Canadian film
Club Native
Directed byTracey Deer
Written byTracey Deer
Produced by
Narrated byTracey Deer
CinematographyJeff Dorn
Edited byCarl Freed
Music by
  • Mona Laviolette
  • Linda Ludwick
Release date
  • October 16, 2008 (2008-10-16) (Canada)
Running time78 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Club Native is a 2008 documentary film by Tracey Deer, exploring Mohawk identity, community and tribal blood quantum laws. The film looks at how women in Deer's home community of Kahnawake risk losing their right to live on the reserve, after marrying non-natives.

The film received the Canada Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for best Canadian multi-cultural program and a Gemini Award for best documentary writing. Club Native also received the award for Best Documentary at the Dreamspeakers Festival in Edmonton, the award for Best Canadian Film at the First Peoples' Festival and the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. The film was co-produced by Rezolution Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada.

References

  1. Cole, Susan G. (October 8–15, 2008). "Club Native". Now Magazine. Vol. 28, no. 6. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  2. "Club Native". Hot Docs. 17 April 2009. Archived from the original on 19 December 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  3. Griffin, John (December 5, 2009). "Tracey Deer is shattering stereotypes". Montreal Gazette. Canwest. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
  4. "Club Native". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. 2008. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
Rezolution Pictures
Founders
  • Ernest Webb
  • Catherine Bainbridge
Producers
  • Christina Fon
  • Linda Ludwick
Directors
Works
  • Cree Spoken Here (2001)
  • One More River (2005)
  • Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec (2005)
  • Mohawk Girls (2005)
  • Dab Iyiyuu (2007)
  • Mommy Mommy (2007)
  • Rez Rides (2008)
  • The Last Explorer (2008)
  • Moose TV (2008)
  • Club Native (2008)
  • Reel Injun (2009)
  • Down the Mighty River (2010)
  • Smoke Traders (2012)
  • Indians + Aliens (2013)
  • The Wolverine: The Fight of the James Bay Cree (2014)
  • The Oka Legacy (2015)
  • Working it out Together (2015)
  • Mohawk Girls (TV series) (2017)
  • Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
  • Dream Catcher Bio (2018)
  • Searching for Cleopatra (2020)
  • Aging Well (2020)
  • Gespe'Gewa'Gi-Last Land (2022)
  • Truth and Lies (2023)


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