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The Grizzlies
Manage episode 284418575 series 2871708
Directed by Miranda De Pencier
This 2018 film is based on the actual Grizzlies from 2005. A community that had the highest suicide rate in North America, glommed onto the game of Lacrosse. Introduced to them by a non-Native outsider Russ Sheppard. He uses the game to distract the students from their reality but also to teach them about becoming a community and not just teammates. This movie is THE Native sports movie because there are nothing but Indigenous kids acting in roles where Indigenous kids should be acting.
This is a film documents a community's struggles with youth suicide as a result of Residential School, colonialism, substance abuse, and domestic violence. While this movie paints a bleak outlook it also details how a community found hope through their youth and reconnecting them with their culture. I love this film and thank you for listening!
58 episodes
Manage episode 284418575 series 2871708
Directed by Miranda De Pencier
This 2018 film is based on the actual Grizzlies from 2005. A community that had the highest suicide rate in North America, glommed onto the game of Lacrosse. Introduced to them by a non-Native outsider Russ Sheppard. He uses the game to distract the students from their reality but also to teach them about becoming a community and not just teammates. This movie is THE Native sports movie because there are nothing but Indigenous kids acting in roles where Indigenous kids should be acting.
This is a film documents a community's struggles with youth suicide as a result of Residential School, colonialism, substance abuse, and domestic violence. While this movie paints a bleak outlook it also details how a community found hope through their youth and reconnecting them with their culture. I love this film and thank you for listening!
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