By: Ariel Smith One of Canada’s oldest feature length films, Back To God’s Country, turns 100 years old this year. A silent movie released in 1919, Back To God’s Country stars Canadian actress Nell Shipman who also co-wrote the...
By Ariel Smith For a very long time, one of the primary information sources for Canadians regarding Indigenous lives has been film and television. Unfortunately, much of the information presented through these platforms helped shape racist notions about First Nation,...
By: Paul Corupe While Canada’s film industry turned out many distinguished films in the 1970s, including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), Les Orders (1974) and Who Has Seen the Wind? (1977), the decade—commonly called the “tax shelter era”—was...
By: Thom Ernst Canada’s relationship with the Oscars has been long and fruitful. At the 2019 Oscars, director and animator Domee Shi becomes the latest Canadian to earn Oscar bragging rights. Shi was the favourite going into the awards...
By Kay Armatage From the earliest days of cinema and throughout the thirties, forties and fifties, the Canadian wilderness was seen as an exotic paradise – “God’s country.” As opposed to the mean streets of New York or Chicago,...
By: Katarina Gligorijevic If you had to choose two characteristics that epitomize Canada above all others, what would they be? In 1919, Back to God’s Country was released and quickly became Canada’s first genuine blockbuster. It remains the country’s...
