Amá (2018)
1h 14m
Running Time
December 6, 2018Release Date
Plot.
Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the United States Government during the 1960’s and 70’s: removed from their families and sent to boarding schools, forced relocation away from their traditional lands and involuntary sterilization. The result of nine years painstaking and sensitive work by filmmaker Lorna Tucker, the film features the testimony of many Native Americans, including three remarkable women who tell their stories - Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan and Charon Aseytoyer - as well as a revealing and rare interview with Dr. Reimart Ravenholt whose population control ideas were the framework for some of the government policies directed at Native American women.
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Cast & Crew.
Reimert Ravenholt
Self
Jean Whitehorse
Self
Lorna Tucker
Director / Writer
Ged Doherty
Producer
Colin Firth
Producer
Nuala O'Leary
Producer
Andrea Vecchiato
Cinematographer
Claire Ferguson
Editor
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
woman director
genocide
native american
indigenous
sterilization
reproductive rights
indigenous women
dr. reimart ravenholt