Julian Brave Noisecat, Director:
Despite the fact that my own family attended St. Joseph’s Mission and survived the Indian residential schools, I actually knew very little about their experiences at them, in part because it was not something that we talked about.
I think that the memories, in particular, for my grandmother, who attended St. Joseph’s Mission, she really didn’t speak about what happened at that school. So this film was, in part, an act of self-discovery for myself and even more so for my father, who was born at that school in circumstances that we didn’t really know about until we went about investigating that story through this documentary.
