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Rene Batson as Glen (7/8 years old) and Kristen Harris as Lebret Nun. Photo courtesy of The NFB. |
The National
Film Board of Canada (NFB) will present the Ottawa premiere of We
Were Children (Eagle
Vision/eOne/NFB)
on Sunday, November 25, 2012, with a free
public screening at 1:30 p.m. at the Library and
Archives Canada Auditorium, 395 Wellington Street. This special screening
is presented in collaboration with the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. Lisa
Meeches, First Nations filmmaker and executive producer of We Were Children, will attend at the Ottawa premiere.
Wolochtiuk spoke
with Georgia Straight prior to the
film’s premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival this fall and
described how the style of the film helped further the cause of the voices
heard in the film. “How do you tell a story that stands 130 years and deals
with over 150,000 children,” said Wolochtiuk. “The re-enactments I think serve to take the
audience to places where a documentary wouldn’t be able to take you.” The
film seems to have had a transformative effect for Hart, as she noted
described the film as part of her “healing journey” and told the crowd at the
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, “We know now what pain
looks like and now it’s our goal to capture the healing and forgiveness.”
We Were Children is
a co-production of Eagle Vision Inc., eOne and the NFB, with the participation
of Manitoba Film and Music,
the Canada Media
Fund and the Aboriginal
Peoples Television Network. The film is produced by Kyle Irving and
executive produced by Lisa Meeches for Eagle Vision and Laszlo Barna and Loren
Mawhinney for eOne, with David Christensen as producer and executive producer
for the NFB.
We Were Children screens Sunday, November 25th at 1:30pm
at Library and Archives Canada, 395
Wellington St. Reminder: this event is FREE!
.