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Film · 1990
Where the Spirit Lives
1h 36mPGDirected by Bruce Pittman
- Drama
A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...
In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. Taken to a boarding school where she's forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment, she has the support of one sympathetic white teacher.
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Cast
Michelle St. JohnKomi / Amelia- Kim Bruisedhead FoxAnataki
- Marianne JonesKomi's Mother
- Gus Chief MoonKa - moos - ee
- Clayton JulianPita / Abraham
- Margaret CozryGrandmother
- Marge FoxAnataki's Mother
Ann-Marie MacDonaldKathleen- Sean MulcahyPriest
Sam MalkinMr. Crawford
Doris PetrieMiss Weir
Chapelle JaffeMiss Appleby
Details
- Director
- Bruce Pittman
- Writer
- Keith Ross Leckie
- Music
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Cinematography
- Rene Ohashi
- Editor
- Michael Todd
- Producer
- Mary Young Leckie, Scott Shepherd, Heather Haldane
- Release
- June 6, 1990
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rated
- PG
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Atlantis Films, CBC, Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.
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