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Article: Good time was had by all (at the Aboriginal Film Awards).
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- July 1, 1998
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Windspeaker Contributor
EDMONTON
The third annual Aboriginal Film Awards, the Abbies, took on a new look this year. They moved from a banquet setting to a theatre setting, but they must have forgotten to tell the public, because almost half the seats for the two-and-a-half long award show went unused.
Those people who did fill the seats, however, were treated to an evening filled with intriguing performances by New Zealand's Maree Sheehan, Ulali, Mountain Song, The Magoo Crew, the Andean group Allpa Kallpa and the Dene Tha'Drummers. The majority of winners were also on hand to receive their film awards
Wes Studi was this year's honored ...