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I am very pleased to announce the release of the film for personal viewing all across Canada on June 21, 2021, National Indigenous Peoples Day.
All non-Indigenous Canadians should watch the film, especially in light of the news across the country of the undignified burial of Indigenous children who attended residential schools. It's time for Canada to wake up to some of the realities of Indigenous peoples in Canada, and time to bring those children home. The film can be found here: vimeo.com/ondemand/shatteringthesilence By adding Canada, this important doc is now available worldwide. Your support is greatly appreciated! Miigwech, Thank you, Sue Enberg
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Hi Everyone:
I know that it has been a LONG time since I have last written and I hope that you are doing well during these extremely trying times. Please forgive me for the delay in posting but I have had problems logging in for some time now. Very frustrating. I just want you to know that I haven't forgotten you, and am busy at work with another feature-length documentary with Indigenous youth, elders, child and youth advocates, and survivors of both the 60s Scoop and residential schools. The working title of the film is "Bring Our Children Home". You can find out more about this project by going to FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/youthvisioningforyouth/?modal=admin_todo_tour I will try to write some more in the coming months, and hope to update information. Chi Miigwetch, Sue Hi Everyone:
I just want to offer my thanks for your ongoing support of our work, and especially with regard to our first film, In Jesus' Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School. Although we did not win an award at the Femaie Eye Film Festival (FeFF), our film was nominated for Best Documentary 2018. This is quite an outstanding achievement as there were so many fabulous filmmakers and films at this festival. I hope to write again soon. Miigwetch, Thank you! Sue  There is an egregious injustice that will become apparent in the Ontario Superior Court of 'Justice' tomorrow, Monday June 4th. 130 Queen St. West, Toronto. Try to arrive and meet outside at 9:30am.
Canada's Department of 'Justice' is suing one of the St. Anne's Survivors' biggest advocates, lawyer Fay Brunning. They will attempt to be successful in suing Fay for bringing two really important cases to the court, Angela Shisheesh's case and another. Fay has self-financed almost all of the advocacy work that she has been doing for these past 5 years. WHAT? Yes, you are hearing me right. Fay Brunning has been advocating for the Survivors of St. Anne's Residential School since 2013 when it was brought to her attention that the Canadian federal government had in its possession thousands upon thousands of pages of evidence of horrific abuses against CHILDREN at St. Anne's. FORTY THOUSAND PAGES OF EVIDENCE THAT THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT under both the PC and the Liberal governments held back from the Independent Assessment Process, from the survivors, their legal counsel and researchers. And in 2017 it was discovered that there are potentially thousands more pages of evidence in the hands of the Department of Justice. These behaviours by the Canadian federal government - to reaffirm...both the PC and Liberal governments - in no way resemble anything close to reconciliation. SHAME!!!! We need to seriously consider taking a knee in court. Enough is enough!! Sue Hi Everyone: We are very pleased to announce that our film has officially been selected to screen in the Toronto Short Film Festival. The date is Wednesday March 14th. The film will screen at 9:15pm. Ticket sales should begin soon. Hope to see you there! Thank you, Miigwetch, Sue and Edmund  Hi Everyone!
Sorry for taking SO long to write. Life has been very busy in Toronto and elsewhere but things are really beginning to come together. Our film, In Jesus' Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School, has received a number of very positive reviews. As many of you know, the film is now being distributed to universities, colleges, public libraries and other institutions. It is our hope that many people will come to realize the 'realities' of the residential school system, and after viewing the film, to begin to take action to ensure that Indigenous rights everywhere are being honoured and upheld. In the past few months, the film has received two film festivals awards, and has also screened in Thunder Bay and in Winnipeg with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation/University of Manitoba. Our awards are listed on the webpage dedicated to the film. Most notably, a segment of the film will be installed this year at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Winnipeg). This film segment will be installed in the gallery dedicated to educating museum visitors about genocides and mass atrocities, the 'Breaking the Silence' gallery. We will talk soon! Your comments are always appreciated. Best Regards, Sue Enberg It looks like we may be presenting some of our clips at a gallery at the Canadian Human Rights Museum! Will keep you posted on this! Sue
Hi Everyone:
Well, it is official. Edmund Metatawabin and I will be flying out to Winnipeg in December to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation for a screening of our first film about the notoriously violent St. Anne's Residential School. This is a great honour for us! Together, we can make a difference. Miigwetch, Thank you, Sue So proud of all the Survivors we have interviewed, Chief Wilton Littlechild and all of my crew members, each of to whom this award can be attributed!!! I had NO idea we were going to receive the IMPACT Award at the Reelworld Film Festival - for the feature film most likely result in social change. Big shout out to Trevor Carroll too, director of NO Reservations! Edmund Metatawabin....we are getting THERE. The world will soon come to know all about St. Anne's Residential School and what the children endured at that incredibly violent institution.  Edmund and I would like to say a HUGE thank you to all who managed to come out for the MFA Premiere Screening of In Jesus' Name at the Ted Rogers HotDocs Cinema in Toronto. We opened with traditional ceremony and healers were present to support survivors and their kin. MANY of us gathered at the Second Cup afterward to decompress from what is a very difficult film to take in.
Thanks so much to the Survivors in the film for coming out to the screening!! Your bravery and strength is helping others to begin opening up about what happened to them while at St. Anne's and other residential schools. As you know, this journey of releasing long-held trauma can be difficult but also very cathartic. We are SO proud of all of you!! We also now have a Canada-wide educational distributor, McIntyre Media. The Survivors in the film expressed (before the film was completed) how so few Canadians knew about St. Anne's Residential School and the abuses that occurred there. It is our hope that students viewing the film will dig more deeply into the history of St. Anne's to ensure that, in a few years, the whole world becomes aware of Canada's racism and the brutalities of the Catholic church. We are now seeking funding to complete the second film about St. Anne's Residential School and the Survivors. This is NOT Reconciliation has recently been pitched to the National Film Board of Canada as a co-production. We should hear back from them in the next month or so as to whether or not they are willing to come on board so that we can complete this film in a very powerful way. I will do my best to keep you posted! Miigwetch, Thank you! From Sue and Edmund |
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