Brocket 99

Brocket 99

Infobox Film
name = Brocket 99 - Rockin’ the Country
director = Nilesh Patel
producer = Nilesh Patel
music = Chris Guy, Patrick Stewart
cinematography = Jason W. Clarke
editing = Art Maughan
released = 2006
runtime = 98 min
country = Canada
language = English
website = http://www.brocket99themovie.com/

Brocket 99 is the name of an underground comedy audio tape that parodies aboriginal people in Canada and the name of two documentary films about the tape (one produced in 2005, and the other currently in production).

1986 tape

The parody played on numerous aboriginal stereotypes and has been characterized as racist. The tape included names of real people, stores and towns. According to the "Lethbridge Herald", the tape is an "international underground phenomenon".cite news
last = Burroughs | first = Alexandra | title = Is it comedy or racism? Brocket 99 film raises big issues | pages = E4,E7 | publisher = Calgary Herald | date = 2005-07-13]

The tape was created in 1986 by radio DJs in Lethbridge, Alberta, purportedly inspired by a clip of a parody of gay men running a radio station called "AIDS Radio". [cite news
last = Beeber | first = Al | title = Brocket 99 documentary ‘pretty provocative,’ says filmmaker
publisher = Lethbridge Herald | date = 2006-09-19] The "Brocket 99" tape was never made to be marketed and was meant as a parody.

The premise of the tape was a fictitious radio station broadcasting from Brocket, Alberta, on the Northern Peigan reserve (a real reservation 70 km west of Lethbridge), hosted by a character named "Ernie Scar". It stereotypes natives as drunken bums, welfare receipients and drug addicts and uses pejorative terms to describe native men as "bucks" and native women as "squaws."

Documentaries

In 2005, filmmaker Nilesh Patel produced and directed a documentary called "Brocket 99 — Rockin' the Country", which examined the ongoing popularity of the tape. CBC Radio's Sounds Like Canada described Brocket 99 as "It started as a fake radio show on a cassette. Then it developed a cult following. Brocket 99 is something of a cultural phenomenon in western Canada. It purports to be a radio program on an Indian reserve. Some people find it hilarious and racey. Others say it's outright racist." [cite episode |title=BROCKET 99 - Nilesh Patel |url=http://www.cbc.ca/insite/SOUNDS_LIKE_CANADA/2005/6/30.html |series=Sounds Like Canada |network=CBC |airdate=2005-06-30]

In 2006, the film won the SÈquences Magazine Prize in the documentary category at the Montreal First Peoples’ Festival and the Special Recognition Award at the Anchorage International Film Festival. [cite web | title = Winners 2006 | publisher = Montreal First Peoples’ Festival | url = http://www.nativelynx.qc.ca/06/en/index.html | accessdate = 2007-06-26 ] [cite web | title = Anchorage International Film Festival | publisher = Anchorage International Film Festival | url = http://www.anchoragefilmfestival.org/2006/ | accessdate = 2007-06-26 ] The film was also featured at the 2006 Calgary and Edmonton International Film Festivals and the Vancouver Asian Film Festival.

In 2007, Gallant Productions announced they are producing a documentary called "Brocket 99: Ernie Scar Comes Clean". [cite web | title = In Development | publisher = Gallant Productions | url = http://www.gallantproductions.com/indevelopment.htm | accessdate = 2007-07-11]

See also

* Ethnic joke

Notes

External links

* [http://www.brocket99themovie.com/ Brocket 99 The Movie]
* [http://www.brocket99.net/ Brocket 99 fan site]


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