Director of Call Me Human, Kim O'Bomsawin (Abenaki), joins ReFrame Creative Director Amy Siegel for an intimate conversation at ReFrame 2021.
About Kim O'Bomsawin
Kim O’Bomsawin completed a Master’s degree in sociology before embarking on her documentary filmmaking career. From the Abenaki Nation, informing the public on First Peoples issues motivates her approach. She collaborated in the development and production of several documentary and web documentary series.
The Red Line, a medium length documentary about young Indigenous hockey players, was her first film (2014). Since then, she wrote and directed feature documentary Quiet Killing about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, which won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Political and Social Documentary" (Canadian Screen Awards, 2018). Kim then made documentary Teweikan Revived, which shows three musicians going back to their land and first inspirations (the film won a 2019 Gemini Award), as well as documentary Minokin: réparer notre justice (Radio Canada, 2020) on restorative justice, and the feature length documentary Call Me Human (2020).
She is currently working on several documentary feature projects, including Nin Auass, an intimate and poetic portrait of First Nations youth (NFB), and It Takes a Village, on the return of births to remote Indigenous communities. Since 2018, she has worked as a content producer and director for the development of the transmedia project Telling Our Story (Terre Innue), whose objective is to offer a decolonized vision of the History of the 11 First Peoples of Quebec, and she is co-writing her first animated feature film on indigenous feminicide within the international co-production Ghostdance.
Kim also gives lectures in schools and institutions on the issues that affect First Peoples. In addition to her marked interest in Indigenous issues, her studies in sociology make her a very versatile director and screenwriter.
Director of Call Me Human, Kim O'Bomsawin (Abenaki), joins ReFrame Creative Director Amy Siegel for an intimate conversation at ReFrame 2021.
About Kim O'Bomsawin
Kim O’Bomsawin completed a Master’s degree in sociology before embarking on her documentary filmmaking career. From the Abenaki Nation, informing the public on First Peoples issues motivates her approach. She collaborated in the development and production of several documentary and web documentary series.
The Red Line, a medium length documentary about young Indigenous hockey players, was her first film (2014). Since then, she wrote and directed feature documentary Quiet Killing about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, which won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Political and Social Documentary" (Canadian Screen Awards, 2018). Kim then made documentary Teweikan Revived, which shows three musicians going back to their land and first inspirations (the film won a 2019 Gemini Award), as well as documentary Minokin: réparer notre justice (Radio Canada, 2020) on restorative justice, and the feature length documentary Call Me Human (2020).
She is currently working on several documentary feature projects, including Nin Auass, an intimate and poetic portrait of First Nations youth (NFB), and It Takes a Village, on the return of births to remote Indigenous communities. Since 2018, she has worked as a content producer and director for the development of the transmedia project Telling Our Story (Terre Innue), whose objective is to offer a decolonized vision of the History of the 11 First Peoples of Quebec, and she is co-writing her first animated feature film on indigenous feminicide within the international co-production Ghostdance.
Kim also gives lectures in schools and institutions on the issues that affect First Peoples. In addition to her marked interest in Indigenous issues, her studies in sociology make her a very versatile director and screenwriter.
