| nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | |
| Director: | Tasha Hubbard |
| Producer: | Tasha Hubbard George Hupka Jon Montes |
| Narrator: | Tasha Hubbard |
| Music: | Jason Burnstick |
| Cinematography: | George Hupka |
| Editing: | Hans Olson |
| Studio: | Downstream Documentary Productions National Film Board of Canada |
| Distributor: | National Film Board of Canada |
| Runtime: | 98 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English Cree |
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tasha Hubbard and released in 2019.[1] The film centres on the 2016 death of Colten Boushie, and depicts his family's struggle to attain justice after the controversial acquittal of Boushie's killer.[2] Narrated by Hubbard,[3] the film also includes a number of animated segments which contextualize the broader history of indigenous peoples of Canada.[4]
The film premiered in April 2019 as the opening film of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the first time the festival had ever selected an indigenous-themed film as its opening gala.[5] It subsequently had its commercial premiere at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on May 23, 2019,[6] before screening on a Canadian tour that included a week at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.[1]
The film received universally positive reviews from critics., of the reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of .[7] The film won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs,[8] the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the 2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festival,[1] and the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the 2019 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.[9] In January 2020, it was named the winner of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Canadian Documentary.[10] The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.[11]
A shorter edit of the film was also broadcast by CBC Television in fall 2019 as an episode of CBC Docs POV.