Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
June 6, 1990Release Date
Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
June 6, 1990Release Date

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia

Kim Bruisedhead Fox
Anataki

Marianne Jones
Komi's Mother

Gus Chief Moon
Ka - moos - ee

Clayton Julian
Pita / Abraham

Margaret Cozry
Grandmother

Marge Fox
Anataki's Mother

Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen

Sean Mulcahy
Priest

Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford

Doris Petrie
Miss Weir

Chapelle Jaffe
Miss Appleby

Tina Louise Bomberry
Asst. Supervisor #2

Barbara Wheeldon
Matron

John Friesen
Mr. Babcock

Heather Hess
Rachel

Heather Haldane
Producer

Cynthia Debassige
Esther

Eric Jordan
Producer

Franklin Doss
George

Darlene Shilling
Rose

Margaret Martina
Sarah

Sarah Williams
Ruth

Patricia Collins
Mrs. Barrington

Graham Greene
Komi's Father

Rudy Medicine Crane
Rachel's Mother

David Hemblen
Reverend Buckley

Ron White
Taggart

Jane Manchee
Set Decoration

Buffy Sainte-Marie
Music

Nicole Demers
Makeup Artist

Arlene Berman
Casting

Perry Kutsch
Hairstylist

Valanne Ridgeway
Production Design

Keith Ross Leckie
Writer

Paul Stephens
Executive Producer

Mary Young Leckie
Producer

Bruce Pittman
Director

Sylvie Krasker
Costume Design

Nancy Harvey
Production Manager
Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Where the Spirit Lives is a 1989 television film about Aboriginal children in Canada being taken from their tribes to attend residential schools for assimilation into majority culture. Written by Keith Ross Leckie and directed by Bruce Pittman, it aired on CBC Television on October 29, 1989. It was also shown in the United States on PBS on June 6, 1990, as part of the American Playhouse series and was screened at multiple film festivals in Canada and the United States.
The film stars Michelle St. John as Amelia, a young Kainai girl captured and confined to the residential school system of the 1930s. The system was an attempt to have aboriginal youth to assimilate into the majority European-Canadian culture. Amelia resists assimilation and plans her escape. The film's cast includes Ann-Marie MacDonald and David Hemblen as teachers at the school.
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