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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]

There Are No Fakes
Directed by	Jamie Kastner
Written by	Jamie Kastner
Produced by	Jamie Kastner Laura Baron Kastner
Starring	Kevin Hearn
Cinematography	Derek Rogers
Edited by	Michael Hannan
Music by	Kevin Hearn
Production company	Cave 7 Productions
Distributed by	Mongrel Media
Release date	April 29, 2019 (2019-04-29) (Hot Docs)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

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]

Reception

There Are No Fakes was released on April 29, 2019 at the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival.Critical reception to the film was varied. The Winnipeg Free Press says that despite being "overly long" at points, it is "is a stunning picture of colonial exploitation and stolen Indigenous patrimony".[9] The Globe and Mail described There Are No Fakes as "a shocking tale of counterfeit art, sexual abuse and colonialist exploitation."

L.A Hawbaker offered in their review for PopMatters that Kastner uses There Are No Fakes to emphasize the fact that those benefitting from Morriseau's work were white men.[10] They then go on to say that "the crimes that took place at the Bingwi reserve are just a small sampling of the societal harm done to indigenous populations in Canada".

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	[11]
		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	Cave 7 Productions	Nominated	[12]

References

External links

• There Are No Fakes at IMDb

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