Documentary following Inuk activist’s journey for justice wins Canadian Screen Award
‘Twice Colonized’ receives Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary award
A film following Inuk lawyer Aaju Peter as she advocates for Indigenous voices in Greenland and in Canada has won the 2024 Canadian Screen Award for Feature Length Documentary. (File photo by David Murphy)
A documentary following the journey of an Iqaluit-based lawyer and defender of Indigenous rights in the Arctic has won a Canadian Screen Award.
Twice Colonized, directed by Lin Alluna, was released Jan. 23, 2023.
It tells the story of Aaju Peter, a Greenlandic Inuk, who after her son’s death by suicide has been working to “bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice,” according to the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s website.
It won the Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary, from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, during the Canadian Screen Awards ceremony in Toronto on May 31.
Other nominees in the category included: Beyond Paper, Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones, The Longest Goodbye and Someone Lives Here.
Twice Colonized also won a film-in-production award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
The documentary is available for streaming on CBC Gem.
What happen next she move to Alaska USA and release sequel Thrice Colonised?
Question is how can a person born in another country be a beneficiary of the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement?
We let one, might as well the rest of Greenland Inuit apply.
How ’bout reinstate the McGill twins from Kingston, Ont.(Tanzania) cause they appear legit.
Maybe she is from Labrador..
Get Ms. Qaqqaq, (former MP) to question Aaju about her family & “Eskimo-ness”🤣😜
There are only about a dozen countries in the world that have never been colonized.
Every country has had a dark history at one point or another, but canada is a good country that acknowledges its past and wants to learn from its mistakes.
Many of the imperialist sentiments that exist in the rest of the world doesn’t exist in canada. It is not a common mentality that “Indians were conquered” here; instead we build on reconciliation.
Let’s be grateful that we weren’t colonized by the Chinese or the Russians, as things would have ended up much differently for the first peoples of canada. Making a documentary like this would wind you in jail in much of the world.
Horrible that you lost your son to suicide, but going after the government of your adoptive country might not exactly be the path of justice that you think it is.
The title of this film has a feel of one-upmanship to it, As if to raise the level of shock and sensation. Colonized not just once, but twice!
Unfortunately it is nearly impossible to tell what colonialism has to do with this film based on the description. I suspect the writer hasn’t seen the film. I think I’ll give it a pass too.
I had the misfortune of watching this “documentary”. It was a dull study in narcissism and revisionist history.
“narcissism and revisionist history” … the gruel of activist and journalist alike.
The term Colonize is starting to get old. It’s like the boy who called wolf. Everything there’s an issue, it’s colonization.
As for Aaju, how do you get colonized twice? The first time maybe understandable, but for you to come to Canada on your own free will and to cry that Canada colonized you, doesn’t really make an sense. You choose to stay and adapt to Canada, if you felt mistreated by your colonizers, why did you stay?
Colonized twice = clout chasing
Human beings have been colonizing, enslaving, slaughtering, each other for the past
50, 000 years,
Religious organizations have made people suffer for countless generations in the name
of whatever gods they have called forth.
First Nations and Inuit are just as guilty as any other race,
It is the way we all are.