Also showing: Sat, Oct 16 | 10:00 am – 11:59 pm | Virtual | Geoblocked to VT, NH, ME
Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29.
*Followed by Q&A with the director – Thursday screening only
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: Torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the indigenous uprising known as the Oka Crisis, which tore Québec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. Director Tracey Deer is an award-winning indigenous female filmmaker, born and raised in Kahnawá:ke.
Director’s Note: “This project goes back a long way for me. I was Beans. I was twelve-years-old when I lived through an armed stand-off between my people and the Québec and Canadian governments known as The Oka Crisis. The Mohawk Nation of Kanesatake and Kahnawà:ke stood up to a formidable bully – and won. That summer I knew I wanted to become a filmmaker and vowed to one day tell this story.”