Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

- Alanis Obomsawin

Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.

- Alanis Obomsawin

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

- Alanis Obomsawin

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,…

- Alanis Obomsawin

Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have been very va…

- Alanis Obomsawin