Spirit to Soar (2021)

Name: Spirit to Soar
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-04-29

46m

Running Time

April 29, 2021
Release Date

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Plot.

Between 2000 and 2011, seven First Nations high school students in Thunder Bay died. Five were found in rivers surrounding Lake Superior. All were forced to leave their homes in order to attend school. Anishinaabe/Polish Canadian journalist Tanya Talaga brought international attention to this tragedy through her award-winning non-fiction book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City. Talaga returns to Thunder Bay and her ancestral roots to talk with the family members, Indigenous community leaders and youth whose resilience in the face of unjust colonial systems provide a path forward.

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Cast & Crew.

Shivani Srivastava

Producer

Stuart Coxe

Executive Producer

Michelle Derosier

Director

Adam Phipps

Editorial Services

Tanya Talaga

Executive Producer / Writer / Director

Zoe Gordon

Sound

Michelle Derosier

Director

Sean Stiller

Cinematography

Eui Yong Zong

Editor

Nida Marji

Producer

Rose LeMay

Producer

Justin Stephenson

Animation

Details.

Release Date
April 29, 2021

Status
Released

Running Time
46m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-02-15

Wiki.

Spirit to Soar is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tanya Talaga and Michelle Derosier and released in 2021. A followup to Talaga's award-winning 2017 book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City, the film updates the story of the deaths of several indigenous teenagers in Thunder Bay, Ontario, centring in part on the effects of their deaths on surviving family members.

The film premiered at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it won the Audience Award in the mid-length film category. It was subsequently acquired for theatrical distribution by Blue Ant Media.