The Georgia Straight
A rarely glimpsed way of life is captured on-screen in Hank Williams First Nation, a poignant and witty look at day-to-day business on a Cree Native reserve in northern Alberta. more...

IMDb
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Toronto Sun Movie Review
Hank Williams First Nation happens to be both heartbreaking and hilarious -- quite a feat for an independent feature made on a budget of about $1.29. more...

Calgary Movies.com - Searching for Hank Williams
Many people share the dream of making it in film. Many dream of making that first pivotal work, that becomes the calling card of new, fresh, and original talent waiting to be sought out by Hollywood and showered in some combination of praise and riches. more...

AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival 2004
Shot on the Woodland Cree First Nation, HANK WILLIAMS FIRST NATION is the story of a sleepy Cree community that is stirred up when an Elder begins to question the death of Hank Williams. more...

American Indian Film Festival more...

FFWD - Southern Exposure
If you’re looking for a fish-out-of-water story, this isn’t it. Filmmaker Aaron Sorensen certainly seems to be right at home in Hollywood. more...

FFWD - Breaking All The Rules
Hank Williams First Nation is going to go down in history as one of those films. You know, the ones that, according to all the rules of the business, should never have been made, let alone succeed. more...

The Calgary Sun
"I'm a 38-year-old former teacher and failed musician who has suddenly become a filmmaker," says Sorensen, who comes by the title honestly. more...

Cinequest
Life goes on and nothing much happens in snowy Woodland Cree, where the Fox family lives as part of the wintry community. more...

Nashville Film Festival more...

2005 Calgary International Film Festival
Hank Williams First Nation is a charismatic and big-hearted slice of life, full of affection for its place and people (and country music too). more...

2005 Idaho International Film Festival
Shot on location at the Woodland Cree First Nation (in the Peace River Country of Northern Alberta), Sorenson’s singular vision takes his characters (and the audience) on an ambitious (and somewhat loopy) adventure. more...

Westender
But amidst what seems like a creative drought among up-and-coming Canadian filmmakers, Aaron James Sorensen's Hank Williams First Nation stands tall. more...

New York Times
This little Canadian film that could is warm, endearing, and hauntingly beautiful. more...

The Calgary Sun - Hollywood Take Note
Few people ever get to see their home movies playing in a movie theatre. Then again, not many people are as doggedly determined as former Calgarian Aaron James Sorensen. more...

The Fundy Film Society
Seventy-five-year-old Martin Fox (Jimmy Herman) decides abruptly one morning that before he dies he must visit the grave of his long time hero Hank Williams. more...

Port Townsend Film Festival
Life goes on and nothing much happens in snowy Woodland Cree, where the Fox family lives as part of the wintry community. more...

Genie Awards more...

Cinema Montreal more...

Village Voice more...

Atkinson On Film more...

Filmcan
A sleepy northern Cree community is stirred up when one of its elders begins to question the death of his hero Hank Williams. more...

"A road-trip movie - told through the eyes of those who stayed home"
    - AFI LA

"Best undistributed movie of 2004"
    - Dan Chute, Village Voice NYC

"Genuine laughter... tears flowed"
    - Peace River Record Gazette

"Unlike anything before captured on film"
    - Cinequest San Jose

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