Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance is a 1993 featurelength film documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling the 1990 Oka Crisis.

Rejected by Mark Starowicz of CBC Television, the film premiered in England, instead, on Channel Four. Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance made its North American premiere at the Toronto Festival of Festivals.When the film was released in 1993, the CBC continued its longstanding neglect of Obomsawins work, in this case arguing that she needed to slice thirty minutes from the twohour film to make room for commercial breaks. .. Colin Neale, the executive producer who worked with Obomsawin on the film, rebuffed the networks demand. ... Eventually, public interest in Kahnesatake overpowered the CBCs bureaucratic reluctance, and the network aired it on January 31, 1994. ........

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