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'npawistamsowin: We Will Stand Up' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tasha Hubbard and released in 2019.[https://globalnews.ca/news/5302394/colten-boushie-documentary-national-tour/ "Canadians should see this film: Colten Boushie doc sets out on national tour"]. Global News, May 22, 2019. 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.[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/review/2019/05/30/nipawistamasowin-we-will-stand-up-reveals-stirring-activism-in-wake-of-headline-making-death.html "Nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up reveals stirring activism in wake of headline-making death"]. 'Toronto Star', May 30, 2019. Narrated by Hubbard,[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/hot-docs-opening-boushie-1.5110544 "Colten Boushie documentary makes history as Hot Docs opener"]. CBC News, April 25, 2019. the film also includes a number of animated segments which contextualize the broader history of indigenous peoples of Canada.[https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/hot-docs-nipawistamasowin-we-will-stand-up/ "Hot Docs review: Npawistamsowin: We Will Stand Up"]. 'Now', April 18, 2019.
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."Documentary on Colten Boushie story to open Toronto's Hot Docs festival". 'Saskatoon Star-Phoenix', March 19, 2019. It subsequently had its commercial premiere at the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on May 23, 2019,"A matter of race; Award-winning Boushie documentary begins national tour in Saskatoon". 'Saskatoon Star-Phoenix', May 16, 2019. before screening on a Canadian tour that included a week at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
The film received universally positive reviews from critics. , of the reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of . The film won the award for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs,[https://variety.com/2019/film/festivals/we-will-stand-up-hope-frozen-take-top-prizes-hot-docs-1203205112/ "We Will Stand Up, Hope Frozen Take Top Prizes at Hot Docs"]. 'Variety', May 4, 2019. the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the 2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, and the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the 2019 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.Pat Mullen, [http://povmagazine.com/blog/view/nipawistamasowin-we-will-stand-up-wins-audience-choice-award-at-imaginenati "npawistamsowin: We Will Stand Up Wins Audience Choice Award at imagineNATIVE"]. 'Point of View', October 29, 2019. In January 2020, it was named the winner of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Canadian Documentary.[https://www.tricitynews.com/vancouver-film-critics-award-the-body-remembers-when-the-world-broke-open-1.24047775 "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'"]. 'Tri-City News', January 7, 2020. The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.Brent Furdyk, [https://etcanada.com/news/648359/canadian-screen-awards-2020-first-round-of-winners-revealed/ "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Non-Fiction Winners Revealed"]. 'ET Canada', May 25, 2020.
A shorter edit of the film was also broadcast by CBC Television in fall 2019 as an episode of 'CBC Docs POV'.
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