Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
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.
Cast: Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon, Clayton Julian, Margaret Cozry, Marge Fox, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Sean Mulcahy, Sam Malkin, Doris Petrie, Chapelle Jaffe, Tina Louise Bomberry, Barbara Wheeldon, John Friesen, Heather Hess, Cynthia Debassige, Franklin Doss, Darlene Shilling, Margaret Martina
Writer: Keith Ross Leckie (Writer)
Cinematographer: Rene Ohashi
Production Designer: Valanne Ridgeway, Tim Bider
Editor: Michael Todd
Composer: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Buffy Sainte-Marie
Costume Designer: Sylvie Krasker
Producers: Paul Stephens, Mary Young Leckie, Scott Shepherd
Production: Atlantis Films, CBC, Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.
