Pakipūmeka | Documentaries
AFTER THE APOLOGY Saturday 24 March, 10:00am - 12:00pm at The Civic with Extended Q&A Sunday 25 March, 1:45 - 3:30pm at Ngā Purapura Year: 2017 Director: Larissa Behrendt Language: English Nation: Eualeyai/Kamillaroi Country: Australia Rating: PG Indigenous child removal has increased at an exponential rate since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the apology to the ‘stolen generations’ in 2008. Hazel started GMAR as a response to the rising rates of child removal and along the way she has been joined by families across Australia in the battle to bring the kids home. Together they are not only taking on the system, they are changing it.
With short film HOLY ANGELS Year: 2017 Director: Jay Cardinal Villeneuve Language: English Nation: Cree, Métis Country: Canada On the outskirts of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, stands Holy Angels Residential School, an ominous brick building, built in 1874. Using Holy Angels as a backdrop, filmmaker Jay Cardinal Villeneuve takes us on a healing journey that combines the stories of Elder Lena Wandering Spirit and the dance of Phoenix, a young girl who is the same age now that Lena was during her captivity at Holy Angels.
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