mohawk – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

SEEDS (TIFF 2024) – Review by Rachel West

September 16, 2024September 15, 2024 Rachel West Dallas Goldtooth, Graham Greene, Kaniehtiio Horn, Kanienʼkehá:ka, mohawk, Seeds, TIFF 2024

Kaniehtiio Horn’s Seeds is at once refreshing and comforting as it blends new Indigenous perspectives into a familiar genre. Ziggy (Horn) is smart, confident, and a champion of her community and culture. Horn rises to the challenge in her first leading role, showcasing her humour and thoughtfulness in her performance. With calculated violence, Ziggy is not afraid to defend what is important to her as she uses her heritage, wit, and physical strength to defend her community. Horn’s talent is unmissable. If Seeds of any indication what she has to offer audiences, she will continue to be one to watch both in front of and behind the camera.

Reviews

BEANS – Review by Leslie Combemale

October 25, 2021October 30, 2021 Leslie Combemale beans, canadian films., Kahnawake First Nations Reserve, Kiawentiio, mohawk, oka crisis, Rainbow Dickerson, tracey deer

Framed by a challenging era in Canadian history, Beans is a good film for mothers and daughters to watch and discuss. Friendship, family, and standing your ground, as complicated as that can, are amplified from a female lens, and from the voice of a woman director who knows the story from personal experience. We could use more of these films to help guide girls through their self discovery, and help families support them on their journey.

Festivals Reviews

BEANS (TIFF 2020) – Review by Leslie Combemale

September 11, 2020September 13, 2020 Leslie Combemale 0 Comments beans, canadian films., Kahnawake First Nations Reserve, Kiawentiio, mohawk, oka crisis, Rainbow Dickerson, TIFF, toronto international film festival, tracey deer

Interviews

Tracey Deer on BEANS, a Personal Story – Pam Grady interviews

September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 Pam Grady 0 Comments beans, canadian films., Kahnawake First Nations Reserve, Kiawentiio, mohawk, oka crisis, Rainbow Dickerson, TIFF, toronto international film festival, tracey deer

Tracey Deer draws from her own life in Beans. Rocks pelting a car she was riding in created a defining moment in Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer’s life. It was 1990 and Deer was just 12, a youngster growing up in the Kahnawake First Nations Reserve riding in a caravan of women, elders, and children when stones and racist invective rained down on the group as they crossed the Mercier Bridge.

Interviews