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Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Canada, 2013)
October 31, 2014 @ 7:30 PM
$10UCLA Film & Television Archive, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and Hollywood Foreign Press Association present “Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema.”
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Canada, 2013)
Directed by Jeff Barnaby (Mi’kmaq).
Director Jeff Barnaby’s visionary feature debut uses the tragic legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools as a leaping off point for a full-throttle revenge fantasy. Alia, a young woman haunted by her mother’s suicide slings pot on the Mi’kmaq reservation to bribe a sociopathic Indian agent to keep her out of the reservation school. But when a deal goes south, Alia is forced to fight for her freedom.
Producer: John Christou, Aisling Chin-Yee. Screenwriter: Jeff Barnaby. Cinematographer: Michel St. Martin. Editor: Jeff Barnaby, Mathieu Bélanger. Cast: Devery Jacobs, Roseanne Supernault, Glen Gould, Arthur Holden, Mark Antony Krupa.
Blu-ray, color, 88 min.
FREE Admission for all UCLA students with valid I.D.!