Trick or Treaty?

Trick or Treaty?
Film poster
Directed byAlanis Obomsawin
Written byAlanis Obomsawin
Produced byAlanis Obomsawin
CinematographyRené Sioui Labelle, Philippe Amiguet, Michael Darby
Edited byAlison Burns
Music byAlain Auger
Production
company
National Film Board of Canada
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • September 5, 2014 (2014-09-05) (Toronto International Film Festival)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryCanada

Trick or Treaty? is a 2014 Canadian documentary feature film by Alanis Obomsawin about Treaty 9, a 1905 agreement in which First Nations peoples in northern Ontario surrendered their sovereign rights. The film is the first by an indigenous filmmaker to be selected to the Masters program at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is the 43rd film by Obomsawin for the National Film Board of Canada.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Alanis Obomsawin on her history-making premiere at TIFF 2014". 5 September 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  2. ^ Ravindran, Manori (10 September 2014). "TIFF '14: Revisiting history with "Trick or Treaty?"". Reelscreen. Brunico Communications. Retrieved 17 September 2014.