OISE – Sidney Smith Hall

252 Bloor St. W.

9 – 11 p.m

 

*THIS PROGRAM IS TENTATIVE AS OF FESTIVAL PRESS LAUNCH*

 

The experience of the residential schools is felt through these emotional films that chronicle the lives of survivors and their struggle to overcome the ghosts that hunt them.

 

Childhood Lost

2001           50:00

Doug Cuthand 

This documentary looks at the affect the residential school experience had on the lives of four survivors. We encounter these survivors at different stages in their lives and healing journeys. In the final scene, they are brought together to participate in a talking circle and find that despite coming from different generations, their stories are both compelling and universal to residential school survivors in Canada.

Blue Hill Productions

 

Stolen Generations

2000           8:00

Darlene Miller 

This is a computer generated video, using 3-D computer animation, video, and still images. It deals with the long term effects of residential schools on Aboriginal people in Canada, and their struggle to overcome and survive the residential school experience.             

Reel Time Visions

 

Survivors of the Red Brick School

2001       29:00

Virg Baptiste

Residential school survivors from Kootenay Indian School in Cranbrook, B.C. confront their fears by returning to the residential school they attended while they were children. The film introduces the viewers to several survivors who replay stories of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the Catholic nuns and priests. “They were teaching the word of God but acting like devils,” one survivor says.

Virg Baptiste