Who we are

Founded in 1990, LANDINSIGHTS has gone through the turbulence of an exhaling growth. Each year, the founding members, André Dudemaine, Daniel Corvec and Pierre Thibeault have added an upright or a crossbeam to build a bridge between nations — a fine monument for the new millennium.

LANDINSIGHTS is guided by an eleven-member board with members from the Mohawk, Huron-Wendat, Abenaki, Innu and Cree nations.

LANDINSIGHTS is the driving force behind the First Peoples' Festival, making Montreal the nerve centre of Indigenous Creativity from the three Americas for ten days in June.

LANDINSIGHTS has proven able to create a space for affirmation and recognition, in its organisational structure and its activities. If the bridge we have built may still seem fragile, the confidence our many partners as well as artists in all disciplines have shown for eleven years gives its existence its full meaning and confirms its necessity in our eyes

Prizes awarded to LandInSights

LandInSights has been awarded the Jacques-Couture prize for intercultural rapprochement (2001) awarded by the Government of Québec, and two Mishtapew prizes, awarded by the First Peoples' Business Association. The first was cultural firm of the year award (2001) and the second was an award recognizing the impact of its activities in the French-speaking world (2002).

Board of Directors

Alanis Obomsawin, president

An Abenaki artist and filmmaker whose films on Aboriginal causes have been screened throughout the world and earned many awards. Among other honours Alanis Obomsawin has earned, she is an Officer of the Order of Canada, has won the Governor-General's award and an excellence award from the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation.

Michel Noël, vice-president

Aboriginal milieu
Mr Noël is an author of Algonquin descent, from Maniwaki. He has earned several prestigious awards for his novels, and worked for many years for the Quebec Ministry of Culture.

Alana-Dawn Phillips, board secretary

Alana-Dawn Phillips is a Mohawk woman originally from Kahnawake, Quebec. Currently studying part-time at Concordia University in Child Studies, while working full-time at APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network). She has been an active member of the Aboriginal community of Montreal for over 10 years and has previously worked various summers for the First Peoples' Festival.

Daniel Corvec, treasurer

Founding member
Daniel Corvec has worked in the film field as a documentary filmmaker and has taken part in several community education projects (in particular for Oxfam, NFB, NABET, le Front commun des communications). He is LandInSights office manager.

Jean-Yves de Banville, administrator

Milieus associated with First Nations
Mr de Banville is a producer of cultural and educational television programs, at the helm of ECP production company.

André Dudemaine, administrator

Founding member
An Innu, André Dudemaine has made a name for himself as a producer and cultural facilitator. He took part in founding the Abitibi Témiscamingue International Festival. Since the founding of LandInSights, he has worked as cultural activities director. He was also editor-in-chief of the journal Terres en vues.

Arthur Lamothe, administrator

Milieus associated with First Nations
The famous Quebec filmmaker has devoted a great part of his body of documentary work to increasing knowledge of Aboriginal peoples. Albert-Tessier Prize 1982. Companion of the Orders of Canada and Quebec. Honorary doctorate in social sciences.

Maxime Vollant, administrator

Young Aboriginal milieu
Mr Vollant is an Innu. He was coordinator of the Youth Council at the Quebec and Labrador First Nations Assembly for some years. Since 2005, he has been the manager of Bank of Montreal's Betsiamites branch.