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Highway of tears [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Matt Smiley.

Filmoption International, [2015].

DVD 362.88082 H638 Doc

First Nations women -- British Columbia -- Social conditions.

First Nations women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia.

Women -- Crimes against -- British Columbia.

Missing persons -- British Columbia.

Murder victims -- British Columbia.

Yellowhead Highway.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (80 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital Surround sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a documentary film in 2014.

"Official Selection Native Women in Film & Television [Film Festival] 2015/Zonta Film Festival Best of Festival"--Container.

Includes English and French language tracks with optional English (SDH) or French subtitles.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Finesse Films presents, in association with: Carrier Sekani Family Services [and] Paracas Films ; produced by: Carly Pope & Matt Smiley ; directed by Matt Smiley.

Narrated by Nathan Fillion ; interviewees: Terry Teegee, Mavis Erickson, Mary Teegee, Crystal Clear, David Loewen, and others ; music by Carmen & Camille.

"'Highway of Tears' is about the missing or murdered women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia. None of the 18 cold-cases since the 1960's had been solved, until project E-Pana (a special division of the RCMP) managed to link DNA to Portland drifter, Bobby Jack Fowler with the 1974 murder of 16 year-old hitchhiker, Colleen MacMillen. In Canada, over 600 Aboriginal women have been reported missing or been murdered since the 1960s. Viewers will discover what the effects of generational poverty, residential schools, systemic violence, and high unemployment rates have done to First Nations reserves and how they tie in with the missing and murdered women in the Highway of Tears cases. Aboriginal women are considered abject victims of violence. Now find out what First Nations leaders are doing to try and swing the pendulum in the other direction."--IMDb.com.

Best Documentary: 10th Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, 2015.

Best Documentary: Malibu Film Festival, 2014.

Documentary films.

True crime films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Smiley, Matthew, 1981-

Fillion, Nathan, 1971-

Carmen & Camille.

Filmoption International (Firm)

Carrier Sekani Family Services.

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