Foster Child
1987
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Years active. 1970s–2015. Gilbert Joseph " Gil " Cardinal (July 19, 1950 – November 21, 2015) was a Canadian filmmaker of Métis descent. Born in Edmonton in 1950, and placed in a foster home at the age of two, Cardinal only discovered his Métis roots while making his documentary Foster Child.
Nov 23, 2015 · Award-winning Métis filmmaker and writer Gil Cardinal has died at age 65. 'The world lost an amazing storyteller,' former CBC anchor Carla Robinson writes CBC News · Posted: Nov 23, 2015 3:41...
1987 43 min. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her.
Nov 24, 2015 · Gil Cardinal, the Canadian Metis filmmaker who directed popular TV dramas like North of 60, The Rez and the Big Bear mini-series, has died. He was 65. Cardinal passed away on Nov. 21, after a...
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Gil Cardinal. Director: Big Bear. Gil Cardinal was born in 1950 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Big Bear (1998), Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole (2003) and Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (2006). He died on 21 November 2015 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Mar 11, 2007 · Gil Cardinal, filmmaker (born 1950 in Edmonton, AB; died 21 November 2015 in Edmonton). At the age of two, Gil Cardinal was placed in a foster home; he remained with his adopted family until he was 21 years old.
