Documentary,
18:00 minutes,
English,
BC,
2009
Synopsis
Following a suicide crisis in 2005 in the isolated First Nation community of Ahousat, tribal leaders initiated a traditional healing process rooted in tradition and gave accused bootleggers in the community a choice to go to treatment, or get out.
Creative team
Writer/director/producer: Steven Davies
Personal statement
Steven Davies says:
"This documentary film follows the spiritual and cultural program that the accused undertook as part of their treatment and follows one member of the groups' emotional return back to the community in a traditional dug out canoe.
Special thanks to narrator James Swan, homecoming stills photographer Denise Titian, reporter Ha-Shilth-Sa and the Ahousaht First Nation."
Selected festivals and awards