With a prolific career as a documentary filmmaker spanning more than 54 years and 53 films – and counting – Alanis Obomsawin has no plans to slow down any time soon. “The people say, ‘you’re not going to retire’.
I don’t have time to retire,” the 89-year-old filmmaker says during a sit-down interview at ET Canada’s Festival Lounge at the Shangri-La in Toronto. “I feel very excited about any subject that I decide to do and listening to, especially when I’m dealing with older people because their knowledge is so incredible every time we lose one is that, ‘Oh, this is like a lot of knowledge that perhaps you never read before is gone.’ So it’s very, very important to hear the words from me.
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