The Dr. Vibe Show™: Yasmine Mathurin “One Of Ours”

December 17, 2021

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Toronto-based filmmaker Yasmine Mathurin‘s award-winning directorial debut is One of Ours. Ms. Mathurin is a Haitian-Canadian Writer & Director and award-winning podcast producer. In 2011, she was selected to take part in the United Nations Human Rights Fellowship Program for people of African-Descent. She was the youngest and only UN delegate from the fellowship to also receive a scholarship with the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). This became the starting point for her to pursue her career in journalism and filmmaking. She produced the audio-fiction podcast The Shadows which won Gold in the fiction category at the 2019 Canadian Digital Publishing Award, and the CBC podcast Tai Asks Why, which won a Webby people’s choice award. She is a recipient of the 2019 Netflix-Banff Media Diverse Voices Fellowship and is an alumni of numerous film labs including the Hot Docs Documentary Lab, the UnionDocs Feature documentary lab, the DOC Breakthrough program and Yale University’s THREAD multimedia storytelling fellowship.

One of Ours has racked up a whole slew of awards and accolades beginning with it’s world premiere at Hot Docs, the largest documentary film festival in North America, including Special Jury Prize (Canadian Feature), Top Ten Audience Favourite, and recently the On the Rise Award, sponsored by IATSE 856 at the 2021 Gimli Film Fest. The film stars Josiah Wilson who was adopted as a baby in Haiti and raised in an Indigenous family in Calgary, Canada. Years later, when Josiah is racially profiled at an Indigenous basketball tournament and refused the right to play a sport he deeply loves, his experience makes the news. This honest portrayal of complicated family dynamics interweaved with basketball, boldly asks us to create space for non-linear paths to self-acceptance, while revealing the empowering experience of being accepted and loved by your community.

Recently, Ms. Mathurin was live on our show.

During our conversation, Ms. Mathurin talked about:

– Some of her background including being born in Haiti, living in Montreal, Calgary and Toronto
– Her transition from Haiti to Canada
– Where her passion to do media and social justice come from
– Her experiences and awards making her a better content creator
– Living in different cities impacting on how it impacted how she views the world
– The story behind One of Ours
– Basketball being important in Indigenous culture
– The history of the adoption of Haitian kids being adopted
– Various aspects of the film
– Some of the impacts of colonization on Indigenous culture
– Being accepted by the Indigenous community
– Her and the Josiah’s family’s feelings when everyone first saw the film
– The film changing her and what Josiah has said about the film
– What is next for her

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