CATEGORY
2014-Competition
Turkish Premiere
HONOUR YOUR WORD
Martha Stiegman
Canada, 2013, 59’
Editing: Angela Baker
Photography: Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier
Producer: Martha Stiegman, Marlene Edoyen, Malcolm Guy
Producer Company: Productions MultiMonde & Rippling Current Media
Music: Stephen de Oliveira
Sound: Martha Stiegman
Synopsis:
‘Honour Your Word’ is an intimate portrait of life behind the barricades for the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, an inspiring Indigenous Nation whose dignity and courage contrast sharply with the political injustice they face.
Director:
Martha Stiegman is a passionate and engaged documentary filmmaker. Currently based in Toronto, her work has screened in festivals around the world from Tunisia to Brazil. Indigenous struggles and non-native solidarity have been the focus of Martha’s film work, community-arts practice and academic research for more than eight years.
Filmography:
Honour Your Word, 2013
Seeking Netukulimk , 2013
In Defense of our Treaties, 2007
The End of the Line, 2007
Website
http://honouryourword-film.ca