Documentary Organization of Canada's 40th Anniversary Celebration

Join POV Magazine and the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) in celebrating the 40th anniversary of DOC! This event will mark DOC’s history of advocacy for Canadian documentary filmmakers by joining long-time DOC member Ali Kazimi for a special screening of their documentary Shooting Indians, paired with the short doc Witness directed by Yasmin Mathurin and produced by Amar Wala.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with DOC members to discuss key moments in DOC’s history and look forward to another 40 years of advocacy. Featuring directors Ali Kazimi, Yasmin Mathurin and Amar Wala.

This conversation will be moderated by POV editor Marc Glassman and coincides with the release of POV issue #120, a special issue commemorating DOC’s milestone.

Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas
D: Ali Kazimi | Canada | 1997 | 56 min

Spanning over a decade, from 1984 to 1996, Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffery Thomas is an ironic documentary journey full of quiet insights and surprising twists. Starting the film as a foreign student in 1984, Kazimi begins to unravel the hidden history of the land that he has chosen as his home. At one level, Shooting Indians is a portrait of Jeffrey Thomas, an Iroquois photographer. The film explores the influences on his life which led him to his career. It was the work of an American photographer from the turn of the century, Edward Curtis, which forced Thomas to closely examine how Native people had been photographed in the past. Thomas views Curtis’ monumental work as a “mountain which must be crossed”.

Tickets: $15; FREE for Hot Docs, DGC and DOC members

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