Rocks at Whiskey Trench

Rocks at Whiskey Trench
FrenchPluie de pierres à Whiskey Trench
Directed byAlanis Obomsawin
Written byAlanis Obomsawin
Produced byAlanis Obomsawin
Sally Bochner
Narrated byAlanis Obomsawin
CinematographyPhilippe Amiguet
René Siouï Labelle
Roger Rochat
Edited byYurij Luhovy
Music byFrancis Grandmont
Claude Vendette
Production
company
Release date
  • 2000 (2000)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
French

Rocks at Whiskey Trench (French: Pluie de pierres à Whiskey Trench) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Alanis Obomsawin and released in 2000.[1] The film centres on the Honoré Mercier Bridge blockade of 1990 during the Oka Crisis, focusing in particular on the incident when a group of Mohawk women and children from Kahnawake, in the process of being evacuated from the community due to fears of a Canadian Forces occupation, were violently pelted with rocks as they crossed into Montreal.[2]

A National Film Board of Canada production,[3] it was released in both English and French versions.[4] The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 21st Genie Awards.[5]

  1. ^ "Obomsawin tells story of Kahnawake". Sault Star, June 23, 2000.
  2. ^ "Film rocks media's view of standoff: Rocks At Whiskey Trench recasts Mohawk blockade". Kingston Whig-Standard, June 20, 2000.
  3. ^ "Film recalls painful Canadian event". Sudbury Star, September 23, 2000.
  4. ^ "An ugly moment in a bad summer: Rocks at Whiskey Trench shows mob stoning cars of fleeing Mohawks during Oka Crisis". Montreal Gazette, October 27, 2000.
  5. ^ "Maelstrom storms the Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2000.