Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Cast
Ryan Rajendra Black
Silas Crow
Adam Beach
Frank Fencepost
Jennifer Podemski
Sadie Maracle
Lisa LaCroix
Illianna
Kevin Hicks
Robert McVey
Rose Marie Trudeau
Ma Crow
Gloria May Eshkibok
Mad Etta
Selim Running Bear Sandoval
Robert Coyote
Sandrine Holt
Poppy
Tamara Podemski
Little Margaret
Herbie Barnes
Joseph
Hugh Dillon
Clarence Gaskill
Vince Manitowabi
Hobart Thunder
Robert Frank Pegahmagabow
Wendel
Michael Greyeyes
Gooch
Crew
Bruce McDonald
Director, Writer, Producer
John Frizzell
Writer
Don McKellar
Writer
W.P. Kinsella
Novel
Michael Pacek
Editor
Mirosław Baszak
Director of Photography
Sarah Miller Hayward
Executive Producer
Norman Jewison
Executive Producer
Brian Dennis
Producer
John Dondertman
Production Design
Beth Pasternak
Costume Design
Steve Munro
Sound Designer
Keith Elliott
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Peter Kelly
Sound Mixer
Mychael Danna
Original Music Composer
Michael Werth
Dialogue Editor
Peter Winninger
Assistant Dialogue Editor
Maureen Sless
Set Decoration
