Foster Child (1987)

Foster Child

1987

Documentary

Synopsis

Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.

Credits

Director

Gil Cardinal

Cast

Don Cardinal as Himself

Gil Cardinal as Himself

Crew

Gil Cardinal (Associate Editor)

Jim Jeffrey (Director of Photography)

Alan Bibby (Editor)

Graydon McCrea (Executive Producer)

Tom Radford (Executive Producer)