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1987 Canadian film

Foster Child
Directed by	Gil Cardinal
Produced by	Jerry Krepakevich
Cinematography	James Jeffrey
Edited by	Alan Bibby
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1987 (1987)
Running time	43 min 05 s
Country	Canada
Language	English

Foster Child is a 1987 documentary film by Gil Cardinal, exploring the filmmaker's search, at age thirty-five, for biological family. Cardinal often meets with frustration during his search, but eventually finds his natural family and discovers his Métis roots.

In Foster Child, Cardinal documents his discovery of his past, including the reasons why his birth mother gave him up for adoption when he was one year old, and sees photographs of his deceased biological mother for the first time. He learns in the film that she had died in 1974, after a long history of alcohol and poverty.

This National Film Board of Canada production received over 10 awards, including four Golden Sheaf Awards, a Special Jury Prize at the Banff Television Festival and a Gemini Award for best direction for a documentary program. It was broadcast on CBC's Man Alive series.

References

^ "Foster Child". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. 1987. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
^ Cullingham, James (18 December 2015). "Gil Cardinal: Canadian documentarian found his identity in film". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
Beavon, Daniel J. K.; Voyageur, Cora Jane; Newhouse, David (2011). Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442640740. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
Wise, Wyndham. "Gil Cardinal". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica-Dominion. Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved 2009-10-01.

External links

Watch Foster Child on the NFB website
Foster Child at IMDb

Violence and discrimination against Indigenous peoples in Canada

Background

Settler colonialism	Gradual Civilization Act Numbered Treaties Indian Act Role of the RCMP
Genocide	Residential school system gravesites list / Chanie Wenjack Forced sterilization First Nations nutrition experiments Sixties Scoop Kimelman Report High Arctic relocation RCMP dog killings
Racism	Stereotypes Pass system Potlatch ban Indian agents Indian hospitals

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issues

Structural violence and discrimination	Birth alerts Child poverty Climate change Criminal sentencing Mass incarceration Food insecurity Foster care Healthcare inequality Brian Sinclair Joyce Echaquan Long-term DWAs
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women	Highway of Tears list of victims Winnipeg serial killings Immaculate Basil Tina Fontaine Pamela Holopainen Barbara Kentner Tammy Lamondin-Gagnon Serena McKay Helen Betty Osborne Jean Virginia Sampare Loretta Saunders Amber Tuccaro Lisa Marie Young Activists
Police brutality and misconduct	Violence against Wetʼsuwetʼen protesters 2020 Gustafsen Lake standoff Ipperwash Crisis Inquiry Death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet Killing of Chantel Moore Saskatoon freezing deaths Neil Stonechild Judge David William Ramsay

Responses

Commissions and inquiries	IRSSA Truth and Reconciliation Commission Holiday National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Legal	An Act to amend the Criminal Code for trafficking of minors Project E-Pana United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act

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topics

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Media	Portrayals of the residential school system list Finding Dawn Foster Child Highway of Tears Missing and Murdered The Pass System Pig Girl Quiet Killing Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child Rustic Oracle Secret Path This River Taken The Unnatural and Accidental Women

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