AFN to screen Third World Canada

The Assembly of First Nations will host Andree Cazabon’s documentary film on third world conditions in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug.
Ontario Regional Chief Angus Toulouse and Quebec-Labrador Regional Chief Ghislain Picard will host the Nov. 30 public screening of Third World Canada. Cazabon shot the film in 2008 to look the First Nation suicide issue through the story of eight siblings who were orphaned in a community struggling with Third World conditions after their parents committed suicide.
“What’s baffling about the film is that I certainly didn’t go out of my way looking for the most tragic story I could find – I just stumbled upon it,” Cazabon said. “I’m left to wonder what other stories I would have found in communities not as prosperous as KI.”
The film will be screened at the National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin Street in Ottawa at 7:30 p.m. with tickets available at www.thirdworldcanada.ca.
Cazabon and representatives from the AFN and KI will be available to speak with media following the film screening.
“If our eyes are opened to the suffering that is happening in KI and many other First Nations communities across the country, when we start to fix it, we also start to fix ourselves,” Cazabon said. “Ultimately, what is really wrong is legislation that treats First Nations people as a trust responsibility of the federal government. That doesn’t just hurt First Nations people, it hurts all of us.”
The film was shot with the participation of Tikinagan Child and Family Services, KI and the Mamow-Sha-way-gi-kay-win: North South Partnership for Children through funding from the Law Foundation of Ontario, Atkinson Charitable Foundation, Laidlaw Foundation and Ontario Arts Council.