Innis College – Town Hall
5 – 7 p.m.
Film selections that highlight the internal struggle of the human spirit and how perseverance and passion can save souls and relight fires.
Donna’s Story
Doug Cuthand
By the age of 13, Donna Gamble was a drug addict and prostitute living a hard life on the streets of Saskatoon, Regina and Edmonton. Still struggling with her addictions, this remarkable Aboriginal woman has left the streets and started a new life and in the process is trying to help others improve their lives. The film also chronicles the story of her mother and her daughters - one who is a prostitute and drug addict, and the other determined to break the cycle.
National Film Board of Canada
Red Buffalo Skydive
2001 3:30
Judith Norris
An unedited, unscripted story of one man’s misfortune told enthusiastically by a young woman as an animated red buffalo charges across the screen. The tone and reflections in her voice conjure up a familiarity and humour from someone that could very well be sitting at your kitchen table relating an intriguing and uplifting tale.
V tape
Red Run
2001 29:15
Murray Jurak
Over the years, Aboriginal filmmaker Murray Jurak has traveled to the Fraser River and fished alongside other members of his mother’s people. In Red Run, he takes us to the river’s edge in the centuries old fishing tradition of the “River People.” As they balance on slippery rocks over the turbulent stretch of river that goes through their land we witness their spectacular and dangerous traditional method of catching fish.
National Film Board of Canada
