One of Ours is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Yasmine Mathurin and released in 2021.[1] The film centres on the 2016 incident in which Josiah Wilson, a Haitian Canadian who was adopted into a Heiltsuk family and raised as a status member of the Heiltsuk Nation, was barred from participating in the All Native Basketball Tournament on the grounds that he is not indigenous by blood.[2]
| One of Ours | |
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| Directed by | Yasmine Mathurin |
| Written by | Yasmine Mathurin |
| Produced by | Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith Laura Perlmutter |
| Starring | Josiah Wilson |
| Cinematography | Iris Ng |
| Edited by | Eui Yong Zong |
| Music by | Ben Fox |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Abacus Media Rights |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
The film premiered at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[3] where Mathurin won the special jury prize for Canadian feature documentaries.[4] The film was subsequently nominated for the DGC Discovery Award at the 2021 Directors Guild of Canada awards.[5]
It received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, and Mathurin received nominations for Best Direction in a Documentary Program and Best Writing in a Documentary Program.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Radheyan Simonpillai, "Hot Docs review: One Of Ours". Now, May 3, 2021.
- ^ Radheyan Simonpillai, "2021’s best movies: Yasmine Mathurin finds healing in One Of Ours". Now, December 16, 2021.
- ^ "Identity, race highlighted in documentary about basketball player barred from Indigenous tournament". CBC News British Columbia, April 28, 2021.
- ^ Jillian Morgan, "Hot Docs ’21: “Zo reken”, “Ostrov – Lost Island” take awards". RealScreen, May 10, 2021.
- ^ "TV & Film News – DGC reveals Discovery Award long list of emerging directors to watch". Broadcast Dialogue, September 23, 2021.
- ^ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
External links
edit- One of Ours at IMDb
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