Dodging Bullets—Stories from Survivors of Historical Trauma

Original title: Dodging Bullets
Country: United States
Elsewhere: IMDb

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How it feels

This documentary features Indigenous people sharing personal and family stories about the ongoing effects of historical trauma. It looks at how past events still shape Native communities today and ends by showing cultural healing and identity as a path forward.

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What happens

Dodging Bullets—Stories from Survivors of Historical Trauma is a documentary film on historical trauma in Indian Country, co-directed by Kathy Broere (Blackfeet), Sarah Edstrom, Jonathan Thunder, and Bob Trench, and produced by Larry Long with soundtrack by Keith Secola. The film focuses on historical events and how they inter-generationally affect the Indigenous population in North America today. The film premiered on April 20, 2018, at the Thin Line festival in Denton, Texas. The film also showed at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival on May 3, 2018, where it was awarded "Best of Fest" and was awarded The Samuel Sprynczynatyk Storyteller Award: Best Documentary Feature at the North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival. Filmed across the lands of the Plains Indians, which is now known as Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Montana, the film recalls first-hand storytelling that reflects how past generations were deeply impacted by mass trauma and how that trauma influences Indigenous peoples of the Americas today. The film ends on a positive path to healing through ceremony and cultural identity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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