One of Ours (film)

One of Ours
Directed byYasmine Mathurin
Written byYasmine Mathurin
Produced byAndrew Nicholas McCann Smith
Laura Perlmutter
StarringJosiah Wilson
CinematographyIris Ng
Edited byEui Yong Zong
Music byBen Fox
Production
company
Distributed byAbacus Media Rights
Release date
  • April 29, 2021 (2021-04-29) (Hot Docs)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

One of Ours is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Yasmine Mathurin and released in 2021.[1] The film centres on the 2016 incident in which Josiah Wilson, a Haitian Canadian who was adopted into a Heiltsuk family and raised as a status member of the Heiltsuk Nation, was barred from participating in the All Native Basketball Tournament on the grounds that he is not indigenous by blood.[2]

The film premiered at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[3] where Mathurin won the special jury prize for Canadian feature documentaries.[4] The film was subsequently nominated for the DGC Discovery Award at the 2021 Directors Guild of Canada awards.[5]

It received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, and Mathurin received nominations for Best Direction in a Documentary Program and Best Writing in a Documentary Program.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Radheyan Simonpillai, "Hot Docs review: One Of Ours". Now, May 3, 2021.
  2. ^ Radheyan Simonpillai, "2021’s best movies: Yasmine Mathurin finds healing in One Of Ours". Now, December 16, 2021.
  3. ^ "Identity, race highlighted in documentary about basketball player barred from Indigenous tournament". CBC News British Columbia, April 28, 2021.
  4. ^ Jillian Morgan, "Hot Docs ’21: “Zo reken”, “Ostrov – Lost Island” take awards". RealScreen, May 10, 2021.
  5. ^ "TV & Film News – DGC reveals Discovery Award long list of emerging directors to watch". Broadcast Dialogue, September 23, 2021.
  6. ^ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.


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