7 Minutes

Director Tasha Hubbard (Cree)
Year 2016
Run Time 7min
Genre Documentary
Marie’s walk home from university takes seven minutes, but when she is followed home by a stranger in a van, those seven minutes feel like an eternity.

Content Note: Depictions of trauma

Director

Tasha Hubbard (Cree)

Hubbard is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and an associate professor in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Native Studies. Her NFB documentary Two Worlds Colliding won a Gemini and a Golden Sheaf Award. She has also directed the short film 7 Minutes, and the feature docs Birth of a Familynîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, which won 14 awards, including the CSA for best documentary and Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs 2019. She is a founding director of the International Buffalo Relations Institute. Her documentary Singing Back the Buffalo won three awards and was nominated for four others.

Writer

Tasha Hubbard (Cree)

Cast

Darian Lonechild (Cree/Saulteaux)

Producer

Marilyn Poitras (Métis)

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Female Filmmaker, Global Experiences, Indigenous Filmmaker

Original Language

English