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Some prominent Vancouverites appear in Bones of Crows, including Margo Kane, founder of Full Circle: First Nations Performance and musician Jesse Zubot, who composed the work’s haunting score with Wayne Lavallee.
(The film contains scenes that may be triggering to some viewers, especially direct or intergenerational survivors of residential schools.) Spears, a gifted pianist, later wound up being part of the war effort as a code talker, using her ancestral language to Canada’s advantage at at time when everywhere else, settlers worked to eradicate it.Įpic in scope and subject matter, Bones of Crows journeys from 1800s Turtle Crossing in Manitoba (home to the Brandon Residential School) to the Vatican in 2009, when a delegation of First Nations representatives from Canada met with Pope Benedict XVI, and numerous places in between.Ĭlements addresses the horrors and lasting effects of colonial practices on Indigenous people head-on without resorting to unnecessary graphic details. Appearing at different ages by different actors (Summer Testawich, Secwépemc actor Grace Dove, and Carla Rae ), she navigates so much injustice and pain with extraordinary grace and strength.Īs a child, Spears and her siblings were forcibly removed from their parents while at home and put into the Indian Residential School system. The film follows Spears’s life journey as she faces and fights against systemic racism, starvation, and abuse. Post-screening Q&As with cast and crew will take place in Vancouver on opening day: Clements and producer Trish Dolman will be in attendance at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas’ 6:30 pm screening on June 2, while actor Alyssa Wapanatâhk joins producers Christine Haebler and Leena Minifie for the 6:45 pm Cineplex International Village screening. It will be screening at Cineplex and Landmark Cinemas Canada. Written, directed, and produced by Dene/Métis artist Marie Clements ( Red Snow, The Road Forward), the work is inspired by the true life story of a Cree matriarch named Aline Spears. BONES OF CROWS is making a wide release all across the country, beginning June 2.
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