Reservation 4 Winter: Raw Meetings and Shit Waves - DVD

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This cinema verité series follows a year in the life of a First Nations reserve in the interior of British Columbia. Eleven intermarried families form the population of the 550 Shuswap at Alkali Lake. Struggling under the paternalistic system devised by the Canadian Government, they have never signed a treaty formalizing their existence and are forced to live like interlopers on their own land. Ill-equipped for the modern word, the reserve is both their prison and their sanctuary?and perhaps, the best hope for the preservation of their culture.

The filming follows 14 major characters, revealing the complexity of reserve life with its vast web of community, its contradictions, its nepotism, its feuds, its lingering malaise of long unspoken sexual abuse, but, ultimately, its deep well of spirituality.

Part 4.
Winter: Raw Meetings and Shit Waves
February brings a week of meetings for Band Council that Shakir has arranged with large companies that work in the area. Mike and Megga get a satellite dish. Ivy, returned from an unsuccessful relationship in Alaska, is an enthusiastic hockey mom. Longstanding rifts between Council and the Treaty Office become deeper, practically derailing a treaty meeting with the province and Ottawa. A Vancouver film company shows up to negotiate a 100 million dollar deal for a series that would be shot in the area and turn the reservation into an international film set. People attend the meeting looking their casting-call best. Mike cruises the chats on the internet and gets a marriage proposal. The Treaty Office organizes a consultant to analyze why the band is in such a mess. What he has to say does not go down well.

52 minutes

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