Bastion Point: Day 507 & Incident at Restigouche with Jesse Wente & Lauren Cramer - CSI 50th

The Cinema Studies Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025 with a screening series of films picked by notable CSI alumni. Screenings are followed by a discussion between the alumni and CSI faculty. Bastion Point: Day 507 is a 1978 New Zealand documentary by Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann about the eviction of Ngati Whatua tribe members led by Joe Hawke by 600 police, on 25 May 1978 after the tribe's 506 day occupation of Takaparawhau / Bastion Point. Bastion Point-Day 507 (1980) A film by Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann Courtesy of the Merata Mita Estate, Leon Narbey, Gerd Pohlmann and the Hawke whānau. Digital version from material preserved and made available by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomssawin chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation (Restigouche) by the Sûreté du Québec in 1981, as part of the efforts of the Quebec government to impose new restrictions on Native salmon fishermen. Jesse Wente is a husband and father, as well as a writer, broadcaster, speaker and arts administrator. Born and raised in Toronto, Jesse's family comes from Chicago and Genaabaajing Anishinaabek and he is a member of the Serpent River First Nation. Jesse is best known for more than two decades spent as a columnist for CBC Radio’s Metro Morning, first as a film critic and then as a culture critic. He was a regular columnist on Q, Unreserved and more than 20 local CBC stations. He has appeared as a guest on numerous television shows as well as the documentaries Reel Injun, Why Horror? and Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror. Jesse completed a Specialist in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto in 1996. Moderator, Lauren Cramer is an Assistant Professor at the Cinema Studies Institute.