Quiet Killing

Quiet Killing
FrenchCe silence qui tue
Directed byKim O'Bomsawin
Produced byMichèle Rouleau
StarringLorelei Williams
Angel Gates
Tantoo Cardinal
CinematographyStéphanie Weber-Biron
Music byAlain Auger
Moe Clark
Production
company
Wabanok
Release date
Running time
76 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Quiet Killing (French: Ce silence qui tue) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Kim O'Bomsawin and released in 2018.[1] An examination of the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, the film explores the reasons why indigenous women are uniquely vulnerable to violence by juxtaposing the stories of some missing or murdered women with the personal testimonies of women who are doing activism on the issue and women who have personally survived incidents of violence.[2]

The film's original French version premiered theatrically at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma in 2018,[3] and the film was broadcast as an episode of APTN's television documentary series Perspectives APTN in both English and French versions.

The film won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary Program at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards.[4]

  1. ^ "Kim O’Bomsawin tend la main avec le documentaire Ce silence qui tue". Ici Radio-Canada Manitoba, March 9, 2018.
  2. ^ "Ce silence qui tue : documentaire-choc sur les femmes autochtones disparues et assassinées". Ici Radio-Canada Espace Autochtones, March 5, 2018.
  3. ^ "Femmes autochtones: celles qui meurent et celles qui restent". Le Devoir, February 27, 2018.
  4. ^ "Gord Downie's Secret Path, Amazing Race and CBC News among Canadian Screen Awards winners". CBC News, March 26, 2019.