Carleton Cinema Politica is launching its 2015-2016 season on November 13th with the screening of the documentary film After the Last River. The film examines the oppression of indigenous people in Canada through interviews with community activists and Chief Theresa Spence. It provides a damning perspective of De Beers diamond company and the Canadian government's complicity. The film has received awards at several festivals for its focus on the stark reality faced by indigenous communities in northern Canada versus luxurious diamond industry events. It will screen at 7PM in Paterson Hall 303 at Carleton University, with entry by donation.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 6, 2015
CARLETON CINEMA POLITICA LAUNCHES 2015-2016 SEASON
Award winning documentary AFTER THE LAST RIVER by Canadian filmmaker Victoria Lean
to be screened November 13, 2015 7PM at Paterson Hall 303
Ottawa, ON, November 6, 2015 – Carleton Cinema Politica is proud to launch its 2015-2016 season on November
13
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at 7:00 PM with Victoria Lean’s documentary After the Last River, a damning indictment of the De Beers
diamond company and the Canadian conservative government's complicity in the oppression of Canada’s
Indigenous people. The screening will take place at Carleton University in Paterson Hall 303. Shot over five years,
Lean’s incendiary film presents a range of interviews with community activists, politicians, scientists, Cree elders
and Chief Theresa Spence, before and during the hunger strike that helped to galvanize the Idle No More
movement. The contrasts between the stark reality of Northern communities and luxurious Toronto events
celebrating Canadian diamonds, complete with ice sculptures and dancers, are staggering.
“This howl of anger and despair demands to be seen. The rest of the world
learned about the Attawapiskat First Nation crisis in Northern Ontario after a
Red Cross intervention in 2011, followed by Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike
and the arrival of the Idle No More movement. Canadians, alternately, were
treated to the spectacle of our subhuman prime minister and his bootlickers in
the media indulging in an orgy of victim blame.”
- Adrian Mack (DOXA 2015 review)
Winner of the 2015 Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival prize for Best Canadian Film and winner of the
Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming at the 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival (The Documentary Media
Society), the film has been an official selection at several international film festivals, including Ottawa’s One World
Film Festival.
After the Last River is co-presented by the Aboriginal Service Centre and with special thanks to Prof. Noel Salmond.
Carleton Cinema Politica is a OPIRG Carleton Working Group.
After the Last River will be screening November 13, 2015 at 7PM in Paterson Hall 303
Entry is by Donation
After the Last River dir. Victoria Lean | Canada | 2015 | 88 min
Downstream from a De Beers diamond mine, Attawapiskat is a
community grappling with urgent environmental and economic issues
that are compounded by a lack of access to resource revenues. Filmed
over 5 years, After the Last River is a point-of-view documentary that
follows Attawapiskat’s journey from obscurity and into the international
spotlight during the protests of Idle No More.
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