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Zeds (Blood Quantum)

Also called: zeds

Blood Quantum is a Canadian film by Jeff Barnaby, set on a First Nations reserve in Quebec in 1981. Its outbreak infects white people while Indigenous people are immune. Barnaby described the film as a commentary on colonialism.1

Battle it
First appeared
2019
Released 2019
Source work
Blood Quantum (2019)
Jeff Barnaby
Made in
Canada
What causes it
Never explained
No cause is given.
How you become one
A bite infects and transforms white people; Indigenous people are immune.
field notes

What the sources say

1

Indigenous people cannot be infected1

2

Dead animals reanimate too: a gutted salmon keeps moving and a dead dog gets up1

3

The title refers to laws that define Indigenous status by percentage of ancestry1

4

Set in 1981, the year of police raids on the Listuguj reserve1

5

Won seven Canadian Screen Awards1

6

After the outbreak the reserve becomes a fortified compound1

Sources

  1. Blood Quantum (film) - Wikipedia

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