Spudwrench : Kahnawake man / the National Film Board of Canada presents ; written and directed by Alanis Obomsawin ; produced by Alanis Obomsawin.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Horne, Randy, on-screen participant.

Obomsawin, Alanis, film director, screenwriter, film producer.

National Film Board of Canada, production company, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horne, Randy.

Mohawk Indians--Biography.

Mohawk Indians.

Claims.

History.

Construction workers.

Construction workers--Québec (Province)--Kahnawake Indian Reserve--Biography.

Mohawk Indians--Québec (Province)--Kahnawake Indian Reserve--History.

Québec (Province)--History--Native Crisis, 1990.

Québec (Province).

Mohawk Indians--Government relations.

Mohawk Indians--Québec (Province)--Claims.

Genre:

Biographies.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Biographical films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (58 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2018]

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Meet Randy Horne, high steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Montreal. As a defender of his people's culture and traditions, he was known as "Spudwrench" during the 1990 Oka crisis. Horne was behind the barricades, resisting the efforts of the municipality of Oka to expand a golf course onto sacred Mohawk land. Horne is one of many Mohawk high steel workers who have travelled the continent, working on some of the world's tallest buildings--but have never lost touch with their roots. Spudwrench - Kahnawake Man is both a portrait of Horne and the generations of daring Mohawk construction workers that have preceded him, and a unique look behind the barricades at one man's impassioned defence of sacred territory. The third film in Alanis Obomsawin's series on the events of 1990.

Participant:

Features Randy Horne (Spudwrench).

Credits:

Edited by Donna Read ; Camera, Savas Kalogeras [and 4 others] ; original music composed by Claude Vendette, Francis Grandmont.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: National Film Board of Canada, ©1997; previously released in 1998.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 26, 2018).

Publisher Number:

nf-spudwr Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.