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SUMMARY:Racial Healing Commission Documentary Film Screening: Sugarcane
DESCRIPTION:Sugarcane Documentary Screening\nA National Geographic Film & Sundance Film Festival 2024 Award-Winning Documentary \nSaturday\, January 31\, 2026 • 6:00 p.m.\nSt. Margaret’s Episcopal Church\, Baton Rouge\nFree screening & discussion\nRSVP HERE for attendance to help us plan for the evening. \n\nWatch trailer and view website: HERE\nView flyer for St. Margaret’s Screening HERE \n\nAbout the Film\nSugarcane is the Sundance Film Festival 2024 award-winning debut feature documentary from\nJulian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie. Produced by National Geographic Documentary Films\,\nthe film examines the history and legacy of an Indian residential school\, bringing to light the\nforced separation\, assimilation\, and abuse experienced by Indigenous children at the hands of\nChurch and government\, while also honoring the resilience of Native communities.\nWe offer this screening as a way to reflect on the history of Indigenous peoples in our country\nand to consider how those histories continue to shape our shared life today\, inviting us toward\ngreater understanding\, peace\, and dignity for all. \nThis screening is hosted by St. Margaret’s Beloved Community Ministry. \nViewer discretion is advised for Sugarcane\nThis documentary details the historical and ongoing abuse within Canadian Indian residential schools\, specifically focusing on the St. Joseph’s Mission in British Columbia. \nThis film is rated R. \n\nThe 2024 documentary Sugarcane examines the history of abuse at St. Joseph’s Mission residential school in British Columbia\, presenting deeply disturbing firsthand testimony and evidence of widespread physical\, psychological\, and systemic violence. \nThe film includes explicit discussion and survivor accounts related to the following: \n\n\nAbuse and violence: The content includes direct testimony and discussion of profound abuse inflicted on children\, both physical and sexual. \n\n\nInfanticide: Evidence and survivor testimony indicating that infants born to young Indigenous girls at the school were killed\, including accounts involving incineration. \n\n\nPhysical abuse: Descriptions of severe and repeated violence inflicted on children by mission staff. \n\n\nSystemic and colonial violence: Exploration of the forced removal of children from their families and the deliberate erasure of Indigenous culture and language. \n\n\nIntergenerational trauma: Depictions of the enduring effects of these abuses across generations\, including addiction and suicide. \n\n\nPsychological violence: The profound trauma associated with missing children\, unmarked graves\, and the long-term suppression of memory and truth.
URL:https://www.edola.org/event/racial-healing-commission-documentary-film-screening-sugarcane/
LOCATION:St. Margaret’s\, Baton Rouge\, 12663 Perkins Road\, Baton Rouge\, LA\, 70810\, United States
CATEGORIES:Parish Events,Racial Healing
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