There Are No Fakes

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There Are No Fakes
There Are No Fakes poster.jpg
Directed byJamie Kastner
Written byJamie Kastner
Produced byJamie Kastner
Laura Baron Kastner
StarringKevin Hearn
CinematographyDerek Rogers
Edited byMichael Hannan
Music byKevin Hearn
Production
company
Cave 7 Productions
Distributed byMongrel Media
Release date
  • April 29, 2019 (2019-04-29) (Hot Docs)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

There Are No Fakes is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jamie Kastner and released in 2019.[1] Starting with musician Kevin Hearn's lawsuit against the Maslak McLeod Gallery after being informed that a Norval Morrisseau painting he had purchased appeared to be a forgery,[2] the film expands into an exposé of a significant art fraud ring that has produced many fake Morrisseau paintings through the use of forced child labour in sweatshops, in which some of Morrisseau's own surviving family members are complicit;[3] by some estimates, there may be up to 10 times as much fake Morrisseau art on the market as real work.[4]

At the time of the film's release, Hearn's lawsuit had been dismissed by the courts on the grounds that he could not definitively prove that the painting was fake; in September 2019, the decision was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal, which awarded Hearn $60,000 on the grounds that the legal onus was actually on the gallery owner to prove that the painting was real, which he also could not do.[5]

The film premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in 2019.[6] It received selected other theatrical screenings through 2019, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in Thunder Bay.[7] It had its television premiere on TVOntario on February 1, 2020.[8]

Awards[]

Award Date of Ceremony Category Nominees Result Reference
Canadian Screen Awards May 20, 2021 Biography or Arts Documentary Program or Series Jamie Kastner, Laura Baron Kastner, Mark Anthony Jacobson Nominated [9]
Editorial Research Laura Baron Kastner, Allya Davidson, Joanne Loton Nominated
Photography in a Documentary Program or Factual Series Derek Rogers Nominated
Editing in a Documentary Program or Series Michael Hannan Nominated
Direction in a Documentary Program or Series Jamie Kastner Nominated
Writing in a Documentary Program or Series Jamie Kastner Nominated
Banff Rockie Awards June 14, 2021 Documentary and Factual - Arts and Entertainment Nominated [10]

References[]

  1. ^ Dorothy Woodend, "Forgery, Drugs, Money and Art: Documentary Dives into Legacy of Norval Morrisseau". The Tyee, June 14, 2019.
  2. ^ Alison Gillmor, "Canadian doc offers dark take on art fakes". Winnipeg Free Press, August 15, 2019.
  3. ^ Chris Knight, "The story of Norval Morrisseau's contested art is as riveting as it is complicated in There Are No Fakes". National Post, June 12, 2019.
  4. ^ Ken Eisner, "Drugs, abuse, and an art hoax converge in There Are No Fakes". The Georgia Straight, June 12, 2019.
  5. ^ Adam Wallis, "Barenaked Ladies guitarist awarded $60K after buying fake painting". Global News, September 4, 2019.
  6. ^ "'So many wild twists and turns': film explores alleged forgery of thousands of Norval Morrisseau works". CBC News Thunder Bay, April 29, 2019.
  7. ^ Andrew Parker, "Review: There Are No Fakes". TheGATE.ca, June 12, 2019.
  8. ^ Paola Loriggio, "Barenaked Ladies’ Kevin Hearn bought a ‘Norval Morrisseau’ painting and ended up in the middle of an art-world feud". Toronto Star, January 31, 2020.
  9. ^ Brent Furdyk, "Television Nominees Announced For 2021 Canadian Screen Awards, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Leads The Pack With 21 Nominations". ET Canada, March 30, 2021.
  10. ^ "Rockie Awards ★ nominees ★". rockies.playbackonline.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-23.

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