Sonia Bonspille Boileau, a Mohawk filmmaker from Quebec, has won the Women in the Director’s Chair national WIDC Feature Film Award. The prize includes cash and in-kind services valued at nearly $200,000 to help female directors get their feature films made. Bonspille Boileau will use the award to complete Rustic Oracle, a drama about an 8-year-old Mohawk girl searching with her mother for her missing teenage sister, the WIDC said in a news release. Her first feature was Le Dep in 2015, about a young Innu woman held at gunpoint in her father’s convenience store and the trauma that results. Bonspille Boileau also made a documentary about the 1990 Oka Crisis called The Oka Legacy and received the APTN Award of Distinction in 2016.

Source: thestar December 01, 2017 01:52 UTC