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"Christmas at Moose Factory acts as an introduction. It is with this film that the mother of Indigenous cinema [Alanis Obomsawin] first introduced herself and sparked a revolution of filmmaking that continues to this day. Her legacy, and that of this particular film, is held on-screen, in the hearts of the communities and children whose stories she has helped to tell over the last 50 years, and with the futures of the children born into a world she has helped to change."
-- Jesse Wente


Source:
Wente, Jesse. "Christmas at Moose Factory." In Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework, edited by Richard William Hill and Hila Peleg. Munich: Prestel, 2022. 'This book accompanies the exhibition The Children Have to Hear Another Story—Alanis Obomsawin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, January 23-April 18, 2022; Vancouver Art Gallery, Spring 2023; Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Summer 2023'. [exhibition catalogue] (p. 21)