April 2007
ReelWorld 2007 - TORONTO PREMIERE
April 2007
Arizona
International Film Festival
Past Screenings
February 5th 2007
Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival
November 25th 2006
Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival
December 6th 2006
Anchorage International Film Festival
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
November 2006
Vancouver Asian Film Festival
Saturday, Sept. 16th, 2006
Bay Street Film Festival - Thunder Bay
Monday, Sept. 25th, 2006
Calgary International Film Festival
Saturday, Sept. 30th, 2006
Edmonton Internaional Film Festival
June, 2006
First Peoples' Festival
of Montreal
January, 2006 - Rough-Cut Screening
Need2Know Film Series (WSF),
Caracas, Venezuela
October, 2005 - Special Rough-Cut Screening
Calgary International Film Festival 2005
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
What begins as a fairly typical interview-style doc develops into something much deeper and thought-provoking. This one should start a few discussions over a post-screening beverage.
- CityTv 'Movie Guy'
The filmmaker allows his subjects to hold forth at length, a strategy that lets them reveal the contradictions, conflicts and prejudices that inform their attitudes. The film reveals a lot of perspectives and doesn't limit itself to just the coherent ones. ****
- See Magazine, Scott Lingley
A carefully balanced, and hilarious, observation of the difference between those who enjoy a good joke with a bit of an edge, and those who have disseminated these tapes with the more damaging goal of perpetuating stereotypes.
- Paul Williams, Head of Programming
Edmonton International Film Festival
While a complex film from many perspectives, it is a film with artistic merit, emotional impact, personal testimony, and cinematic beauty. Brocket 99: Rockin' the Country is a film that tells stories of ourselves that we sometimes deny.
- Brennan M. Wauters, Marketing Manager
Calgary International Film Festival
From an artifact of racist attitudes, Patel manages to open up a dialogue that ultimately ends up in a place where people are willing to share who they are. Brocket 99, the tapes, are meant to shut First Nations people out of Canadian society, but Brocket 99 - Rockin' the Country brings everyone onto a level playing field, allowing the people who've been lampooned to speak back and even welcome those who might not have any idea of what native culture is like to really see who they really are. And that's a step in the right direction. ****
-Mari Sasano, The Edmonton Journal
"For bursting the secret abscess festering in Canada's soul, for getting Drew Hayden Taylor to utter the memorable line Òhumour is there to amuse, not to abuse", the jury of Sequences magazine awards the best documentary of Montreal First Peoples' Festival 2006 to Brocket 99 - RockinÕ the Country."
- First Peoples Festival of Montreal, 2006