Tasha Hubbard | |
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Born | Carrie Alaine Pinay 1973 |
Nationality | Canadian (Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory) |
Occupation(s) | Director, Writer, Filmmaker, Associate Professor - Native Studies |
Employer | University of Alberta |
Awards | 2017 Gemini Award; 2005 Golden Sheaf Award - Aboriginal; 2016 Golden Sheaf Award - Short Subject (Non-Fiction); 2020 Golden Sheaf Award - Multicultural (Over 30 Minutes) |
Tasha Hubbard is a Canadian First Nations/Cree filmmaker and educator based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Hubbard's credits include three National Film Board of Canada documentaries exploring Indigenous rights in Canada: Two Worlds Colliding, a 2004 Canada Award-winning short film about the Saskatoon freezing deaths,[1] Birth of a Family, a 2017 feature-length documentary about four siblings separated during Canada's Sixties Scoop, and nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, a 2019 Hot Docs and DOXA Documentary award-winning documentary which examines the death of Colten Boushie, a young Cree man, and the subsequent trial and acquittal of the man who shot him.[2]