{"id":6053,"date":"2026-11-01T01:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/nitassinan-de-josephine-bacon-et-kim-obomsawin\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T01:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:02:42","slug":"nitassinan-de-josephine-bacon-et-kim-obomsawin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/nitassinan-de-josephine-bacon-et-kim-obomsawin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitassinan by Jos\u00e9phine Bacon and Kim O\u2019Bomsawin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maison 4:3 is pleased to announce that Nitassinan, the documentary by Jos\u00e9phine Bacon, co-directed and produced by Kim O\u2019Bomsawin, will be showing in Quebec since September 18. Remember that the world premiere of the film took place during the opening of the 36th International Indigenous Presence Festival of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Nitassinan is a feature-length documentary that aims to be the testimony of the Innu people, and the affirmation of our History, past, present and future. The film attests to our vitality, our resilience, and this immutable bond that unites us to the Earth. Because Nitassinan is not only the place where we come from: it is a living part of ourselves. He nourished our language, inspired our thoughts, guided our steps. This film is a message of love to our Territory, which saw us born and which still accompanies us today, even in our dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9phine Bacon is one of the great voices of contemporary Indigenous literature in Quebec and Canada. Poet, lyricist, storyteller, speaker, screenwriter, translator-interpreter, director and teacher, she is dedicated to promoting the Innu language and culture with a smiling and passionate determination. His work, deeply rooted in the ancestral territory, Nutshimit, celebrates the memory of the elders, the spiritual bond uniting the Innu to the spirits of the forest as well as the resilience of a long-marginalized culture. His poetry calls for dialogue between people and invites us to listen to the world differently by discovering the richness of indigenous cultures.<\/p><div id=\"linit-612281283\" class=\"linit-dans-le-contenu linit-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Publicit\u00e9s\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><insclass=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" data-ad-slot=\"6185130430\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Abenaki from the Odanak community, Kim O\u2019Bomsawin obtained a master\u2019s degree in sociology before embarking on a career as a documentary filmmaker. She wrote and directed the feature documentary Je m\u2019appelle humaine (2020), a sensitive portrait of the Innu poet Jos\u00e9phine Bacon. She also directed the four-part documentary series Telling Our Story, selected for TIFF in 2023. In 2024, she won the Best Canadian Documentary Award (VIFF) and the Magnus Isacsson Prize (RIDM) for her film Ninan Auassat: We, the Children. Since 2020, Kim has been president of Nikan Productions (formerly Terre Innue).<\/p>\n<p>Nitassinan also relies on the contribution of Sarah Fortin to the additional production. The film is produced by Kim O\u2019Bomsawin, Ma\u00e9li Beauvais-Gentile and \u00c9lodie Polet for Nikan Productions, with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, SODEC, federal and provincial tax credit programs, MELS Funds, Telefilm Canada, Indigenous Screen Office, the ROGERS Fund, the Conseil des Innu de Pessamit, ITUM, and the Tshakapesh Institute.<\/p>\n<div id=\"linit-1192051224\" class=\"linit-apres-contenu linit-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Publicit\u00e9s\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><insclass=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" data-ad-slot=\"6185130430\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maison 4:3 is pleased to announce that Nitassinan, the documentary by Jos\u00e9phine Bacon, co-directed and produced by Kim O\u2019Bomsawin, will be showing in Quebec since September 18. 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