100-115, 45 minutes NFB, 2015 With unprecedented access, this documentary paints an intimate, complex portrait of kids in jail. The film raises difficult yet vital questions about at-risk youth and young offenders, and asks: Should we be doing more to help them? Request
2000-97, 19 minutes, 2016 A short documentary style film featuring the voices and perspectives of children and youth on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s top Calls to Action (child welfare, access to services and education). Request
2000-96, 23 minutes, 2018 Our hosts, Kris and Sarain travel to the nation’s capitol to speak with Child Welfare Activist Cindy Blackstock. They continue their journey at the Woodland Cultural Centre where Residential School Survivor Roberta Hill shares her experience from her time at the Mohawk Institute. Sarain and Kris...
2000-95, 21 minutes, 2014 It was a forced relocation to assert sovereignty that led the Canadian government to commit one of the most grievous human rights violations in Canadian history. Zipporah was a girl when her family was among the eighty Inuit to be sent to the high arctic, but...
1700-29, 42 minutes, 2017 Canada’s colonial practice of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families did not end with the closing of Indian residential schools. It continues today in the form of provincial and territorial child welfare systems, which remove Indigenous children and youth at alarmingly high rates. Request
1700-28, 46 minutes, 2010 By the time Sonia Boileau’s grandfather Mitchell left the Shingwauk Indian Residential School in 1947 he no longer knew how to speak his native tongue. The institution had done its job well—Mitchell married and raised children, who didn’t realize until they had children of their own...
#2900-15, 53 minutes NFB, 2003 For John is the intimate story of John’s battle with drugs and his eventual suicide. The film, directed by Dale Montour, John’s aunt, is also a portrait of his family. Four years after his death, they break their silence. Courageously they share their stories of...
#1900-23, 25 minutes NFB, 1993 A dramatic story of racism and empowerment inspired by the experience of Rhonda Gordon and her daughter, Angela. A bus ride changed their lives. When three boys harass them, Rhonds finds the courage and determination to take a powerful stand against prejudicee and to make...
2000-91, 7 minutes, 2018 Emily is an 11-year-old Mohawk girl who lives in Montreal, Quebec. Emily is a huge fan of dancing: she breakdances and she hoop dances, a traditional kind of First Nations Dance. Emily takes us to her Ninjutsu class and shows us how to do a couple...
2000-92, 23 minutes, 2018 Kris and Sarain break down the concepts of Pow Wow, ceremony and exhibition. They meet Knowledge Keeper and Traditional Dancer Jordan White Eye Williams who shares the history of the Pow Wow. They are invited into a theatre space with Activist Actor/Playwright Monique Mojica. Then, Sarain...
