Cree Hunters of Mistassini

{{short description|1974 film by Tony Ianzelo and Boyce Richardson}}

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| name = Cree Hunters of Mistassini

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| director = Boyce Richardson
Tony Ianzelo

| producer = Colin Low
Len Chatwin (exec.)

| writer = Boyce Richardson

| narrator = Boyce Richardson

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| cinematography = Tony Ianzelo

| editing = Ginny Stikeman
John Knight (sound)

| studio = National Film Board of Canada

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| released = {{Film date|1974}}

| runtime = 57 min 53 s

| country = Canada

| language = English

| budget = $95,602{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Gary|title=In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-6833-0|url=https://archive.org/details/innationalintere0000evan|url-access=registration|quote=Cree Hunters of Mistassini.|accessdate=3 January 2012|page=[https://archive.org/details/innationalintere0000evan/page/170 170]|date=30 September 1991}}

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Cree Hunters of Mistassini is a 1974 documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada and co-directed by Boyce Richardson and Tony Ianzelo. It chronicles a group of three Cree families from the Mistassini region of Quebec as they set up a winter hunting camp near James Bay and Ungava Bay. The film explores the beliefs and the ecological principles of the Cree people.

Richardson had previously written a series of articles for the Montreal Star on Native rights and the environmental damage done by development on their land. He traveled to Mistassini to speak with Cree friends, pledging that their film would allow Native people to tell their own stories, and filming went ahead with three hunting families in the bush, over five months from 1972 to 1973.