On February 20 at 10:00 p.m. ET, CBC News: The Lens plays host to a documentary by up-and-coming filmmaker Tracey Deer titled Mohawk Girls. As a gritty and unsettling portrayal of what it means to be Aboriginal in 21st century Canada, Mohawk Girls tells the story of three girls on the Kahnawake Mohawk territory near Montreal over the course of a three-year period. The film, which won the 2005 Alanis Obomsawin prize for best documentary at Toronto’s ImagineNATIVE Aboriginal film festival, is a production of Outremont QC-based Rezolution Pictures and the National Film Board.

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