One of Ours (film)

One of Ours is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Yasmine Mathurin and released in 2021.

[1] The film centres on the 2016 incident in which Josiah Wilson, a Haitian Canadian who was adopted into a Heiltsuk family and raised as a status member of the Heiltsuk Nation, was barred from participating in the All Native Basketball Tournament on the grounds that he is not indigenous by blood.

[2] The film premiered at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[3] where Mathurin won the special jury prize for Canadian feature documentaries.

[5] It received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, and Mathurin received nominations for Best Direction in a Documentary Program and Best Writing in a Documentary Program.

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