discovery Hundreds of unique graves in Indian residential school In Canada in 2021 it was just a catalyst for “sugar cane”.
Julian Priev Nisikat and Emily Cassi, movie makers behind Oscar nominated The documentary, spent years in the investigation, was actually behind only one of the institutions. “sugar-cane,” You are now flowing on HoloHe draws a terrifying picture of the system’s systematic violations by the state -funded school and reveals for the first time a pattern of killing children and infants born to indigenous girls and building priests.
In the year since it appeared for the first time in Sandans Film FestivalThe “sugar cane” was shown in the White House, the Canadian Parliament, and for more than ten indigenous communities in North America, which sparked a movement at the base level and calculated that you find the truth about other schools. It also represents the first time that an indigenous film director in North America has received an Oscar nomination.
From the nineteenth century to the seventies of the last century, more than 150,000 of the first children of nations were attending to the audience Christian schools funded by the state As part of a program to accommodate them in Canadian society. They were forced to switch to Christianity and not allow them to speak their original languages. Many have been beaten and verbally abused, and up to 6000 is said to have died. Nearly three quarters of residential schools 130 managed by the Roman Catholic missionary communities
Canada’s residential schools relied on similar facilities in the United States, where Catholic and Protestant sects managed more than 150 internal schools between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, according to researchers, which were also home to abuse.
“Often we look everywhere in the world to the horrors and violations that occur, and this is important, but the original issues are rarely the issue of today, and we believe that it deserves to be.” “This story is the genocide that occurred throughout North America, and we have never dealt with it. The indigenous people were rarely the central point for this type of dialogue at the country level. We hope that” sugar cane “helps to change this.”
As a documentary journalist, Cassi spent a decade in producing films on human rights violations all over the world, from Afghanistan to Niger, but she did not turn her lens to her country. When the news broke out about the unique graves, I was attracted to the story and communicated with Noisecat to see if he wanted to help. They became friends as correspondents in New York who have just happened to share the neighboring offices.
“In the following years, Julian continued to become an incredible writer, thinker and journalist focusing on the lives of the indigenous people in North America. I felt as if it were the natural suitability.”
While he was studying it, she was looking for a group to focus on and landed on the St. Joseph mission near the sugar cane reshopter in Williams Lake in British Columbia. Without her knowledge, the school family Noisecat was attended. He heard stories about his father’s children nearby and found in the garbage. Over the course of the film, they discovered that he was already born in a dormitory and found in the school incinerators.
“It was a process for me to decide in the end the story in a personal and family way,” said Noisecat, who lived during the film with his father for the first time since he was about 6 years old.
“It has become very clear that he had these unspecified questions of his birth and his upbringing, and that I was in a situation that allowed me to help him ask these questions and thus, to address some of my pain and my permanent complications from giving up on me. Go to the Vatican With the late President Rick Gilbert and witnessed his amazing courage. “
Noisecat said: “We were incredibly lucky because this film had a real influence,” NOISECat said. “I was really afraid that telling such a personal and painful story sometimes might be harmful. But in reality, fortunately, it was a healing thing, not only for my family and our participants, but for the Indian country on a larger scale.”
Over the past year, with the film played in many festivals and indigenous societies in reservations, Cassi said that more survivors are progressing with their stories.
In October, former President Joe Biden also He officially apologized to the original Americans In order to “sin” of the government’s internal schools system, which was separated for decades of children from their parents, describing it as a “stain on American history.”
“This is the story of the origin of North America,” said Cassi. “It is a story of how the Earth was taken by separating six generations of children, and indigenous children from their families … (and) most people do not know.”
Kassi noted that although “sugar cane” is inspiring talks within societies, it comes in a political moment in which governments do not support the investigation and continuous accountability.
In the cinema industry with deep roots in the Western type and racist photography of the indigenous Americans as obstacles to expansion in the West, the original representation of the original stories on the screen remains in the first days. At 97 years of the Academy Awards, no original American won a competitive award. Lily Gladston, an executive product on “sugar cane”, was Last year, the best actress passed.
When an Oscar was nominated for “sugar cane”, they made sure they had their facts before they earned their historical nature: Noisecat was already the first film director of the original North America to get one.
“It is really special,” he said. “Meanwhile, it is a kind of shock.”
“We hope that the film will show that there is still a lot about this foundational story in North America, which must be known and therefore must be investigated,” said Noisecat. “This film should not be seen as an end, but rather a real struggle with this story.”
He added: “On a broader scale, there are many painful, important, beautiful and sometimes even victorious stories that come from the indigenous people who come from the Indian country.”
If the “sugar cane” winner at the Oscars on March 2 is named, Noisecat promised that it would be a letter of acceptance to see it.
“We will make it a moment,” said noisecat. “If we win, I will wake up there, I will say something, and we will do it well too.”
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