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Returning home [videorecording] / Produced by: Gilles Gagnier, Andrew Lovesey, Tim Joyce ; directed by Sean Stiller.

Stiller, Sean, (film director.). Webstad, Phyllis, (on-screen participant.). McIntyre Media, (film distributor.). Phyllis Webstad. (Cast).

Summary:

Skilfully intertwining narratives concerning residential school survivors and Indigenous peoples' relationship with imperiled wild Pacific salmon, Sean Stiller's stirring documentary is a revelatory testament to strength and resilience. At the heart of the film is Phyllis Jack-Webstad, the survivor who founded the Orange Shirt Day movement. While Phyllis recounts her childhood trials to youth across the country, her relations in the Secwépemc territory near Williams Lake are contending with another outcome of colonialism: the upper Fraser River's lowest salmon runs in Canadian history. In observing the interconnection between the Secwépemc and salmon, Stiller lays bare the impacts of overfishing on these communities. The first production by Canadian Geographic Films, Returning Home balances Stiller's stunning cinematography with clear-eyed testimonies to the unforgivable transgressions endured by Phyllis and other survivors within the walls of residential schools. Likewise, it effectively illustrates what it means to truly be in good relationship with the land and shares how, for the Secwépemc, healing people and healing the natural world are synonymous.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (72 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
  • Publisher: Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from container.
For specific added features see container or interactive features menu while viewing disc.
Participant or Performer Note:
Phyllis Webstad.
Target Audience Note:
E.
System Details Note:
DVD.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
For private home use only.
Language Note:
Audio track in English.
Subject: Webstad, Phyllis > Travel.
Pacific salmon > Behavior.
Pacific salmon > Conservation.
Overfishing > British Columbia.
Migratory fishes > Conservation > British Columbia.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Human-animal relationships > Canada.
Indigenous peoples > Cultural assimilation > North America.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > History.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Residential schools > History.
Secwepemc > Social life and customs.
Secwepemc > History.
Residential schools > Canada > History.
Fraser River (B.C.) > Ecology.
Genre: Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Historical films.
Environmental films.
Personal narratives.

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