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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.[
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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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