Place of the Boss: Utshimassits (1996)
48m
Running Time
January 1, 1996Release Date
Place of the Boss: Utshimassits (1996)
48m
Running Time
January 1, 1996Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
In the '60s, the Mushuau Innu had to abandon their 6,000-year nomadic culture and settle in Davis Inlet. Their relocation resulted in cultural collapse and widespread despair.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Shirley Cheechoo
Narrator
John Walker
Director / Writer
David Macfarlane
Writer
Claude McKenzie
Music
Florent Vollant
Music
Guy Trépanier
Music
Peter d'Entremont
Producer
Mike Mahoney
Producer
Details.
This Movie Is About.
canada
forced relocation
indigenous peoples
Wiki.
Utshimassits: Place of the Boss is a Canadian documentary film, directed by John Walker and released in 1996. The film focuses on Davis Inlet (Utshimassits), an Innu community in Labrador which was the site of a major humanitarian crisis in the 1990s, and explores how the community's roots as a forcible resettlement of the previously nomadic Mushuau Innu First Nation contributed to the crisis.
The film premiered on February 13, 1996 as an episode of the CBC Television documentary series Witness. At the 11th Gemini Awards, it won the Donald Brittain Award for best social or political documentary.