There’s a moment in Sugarcane, a gut-punch of a documentary, when a central subject relays his shattering experiences with Catholic-run Native American schools in Canada. He goes quiet after testifying to a somber-looking clergyman. The camera stays with both people, allowing us to observe years of pain in the survivor’s crestfallen face and the sorrowful posture of the listener. “Being sorry is the first step,” the subject says after the priest apologizes for the role the Catholic Church played in abusing Native populations. “You have to take action.”
At the heart of Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s powerful film is this question of action. How do you act when faced with violence from the past? What does accountability look like? The documentary, which premiered in competition at Sundance, braids three narratives connected to the discovery of unmarked graves near St. Joseph’s Mission, an Indian residential...
At the heart of Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s powerful film is this question of action. How do you act when faced with violence from the past? What does accountability look like? The documentary, which premiered in competition at Sundance, braids three narratives connected to the discovery of unmarked graves near St. Joseph’s Mission, an Indian residential...
- 1/21/2024
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s impossible to overstate the trauma that is explored throughout Sugarcane, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s harrowing documentary on the sins of St. Joseph’s Mission in British Columbia and the Canadian Indian residential school system as a whole. Spurred by the discovery of over 200 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021, NoiseCat and Kassie speak with investigators and survivors of the schools, one of them Julian Brave NoiseCat’s own father: Ed Archie NoiseCat.
Since the the 19th century, the Canadian government forced Indigenous children to attend boarding schools that were primarily run by the Catholic Church. If the pronounced goal was something like cultural acclimation/assimilation, the price many kids paid was too great to calculate. Widespread allegations of abuse, rape, and torture were largely ignored for generations. Rosalin Sam, a survivor of St. Joseph’s Mission, recounts the circular direction of denied responsibility.
Since the the 19th century, the Canadian government forced Indigenous children to attend boarding schools that were primarily run by the Catholic Church. If the pronounced goal was something like cultural acclimation/assimilation, the price many kids paid was too great to calculate. Widespread allegations of abuse, rape, and torture were largely ignored for generations. Rosalin Sam, a survivor of St. Joseph’s Mission, recounts the circular direction of denied responsibility.
- 1/21/2024
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
One week before Bobbi Kristina Brown was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub, one of her neighbors reported a domestic dispute at her home in a 911 call that was released by the Roswell Police Department to Us Weekly on Wednesday, Feb. 11. The call, which was made on Friday, Jan. 23, was from a man named Rick Gilbert who said he was a security guard at the private gated community in Roswell, Ga. where Brown lived with her longtime love Nick Gordon. The man told the [...]...
- 2/11/2015
- Us Weekly
As police confirm that they are now conducting a criminal investigation into what happened to Bobbi Kristina Brown on the morning of Jan. 31, a 911 call shows that there may have been trouble at her home the week beforehand as well. "Just had a neighbor call and report saying people were hitting each other and swinging outside in front of the townhomes in Ellard Village," a man who identified himself as Rick Gilbert from Ellard Securities said in a 911 call made Jan. 23, a copy of which was obtained by E! News. Asked if he knew the names of any of the parties involved, had any descriptions of the people involved or knew how many people were involved, Gilbert said that he did not, but the address he gave was...
- 2/11/2015
- E! Online
When you get word of a horror project on Kickstarter the first thing that comes to mind is who’s begging for money to fund their chintzy art project now. That simply isn’t the case with the subject of this plea. It has come time to fund a potentially rad piece of filmmaking. Let me be one of the first, but definitely not the last to introduce you to P5YCH.
Does this sound familiar to you?
It’s 1984. The five survivors, whose experiences inspired the five scariest movies of all time, are undergoing experimental treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. It went horribly wrong.
That’s right. It doesn’t. That’s because director/co-writer Matthew Currie Holmes has an original idea that takes a little bit of what we love about our horror obsession and then allows it to evolve into something that has our favorite bogeymen pitted against...
Does this sound familiar to you?
It’s 1984. The five survivors, whose experiences inspired the five scariest movies of all time, are undergoing experimental treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. It went horribly wrong.
That’s right. It doesn’t. That’s because director/co-writer Matthew Currie Holmes has an original idea that takes a little bit of what we love about our horror obsession and then allows it to evolve into something that has our favorite bogeymen pitted against...
- 4/19/2012
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
Matthew Currie Holmes is best known to genre fans as “M” from Wrong Turn 2, “Sean Castle” from 2005′s The Fog, or maybe as “Eddie” from the television show Edgemont, but the actor has transitioned into the director’s chair for Psych (aka P5YCH). The film, starring Amanda (Red White & Blue) Fuller, tells the interesting story of victims having the chance to return to the scene of the crime and fight back against their assailants.
Synopsis:
“The year is 1984. Eric Talbot, Sandy King, Debbie Hill, Amanda Collins, and Bobby White all have one thing in common: each is the sole survivor whose experience has influenced cinema’s most infamous mass murderers. These five have been scarred so badly, they now reside permanently at the Milton Armstrong Wellness Center, where they are undergoing treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Led by Dr. Rick Gilbert, the five take their therapy to...
Synopsis:
“The year is 1984. Eric Talbot, Sandy King, Debbie Hill, Amanda Collins, and Bobby White all have one thing in common: each is the sole survivor whose experience has influenced cinema’s most infamous mass murderers. These five have been scarred so badly, they now reside permanently at the Milton Armstrong Wellness Center, where they are undergoing treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Led by Dr. Rick Gilbert, the five take their therapy to...
- 2/22/2012
- by Justin
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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