The Learning Path

Réalisé par Loretta Todd

Canada, 1991 (documentaire, 57 minutes, couleurs / noir et blanc, anglais)

Image : © Office national du film du Canada

Description du film [en anglais] :
« Generations of Native children were taught in schools that to be Native was somehow wrong. Native Canadians now have control over their own system of formal education. In this film, we meet three remarkable educators who are leading younger Natives along the path of enlightenment. »
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Loretta Todd
Produit par :	Cari Green, James Cullingham, Peter Raymont, Kent Martin
Narrateur :	Loretta Todd
Participants :	Jane Paul, Anne Starr, Bertha Twin, Veronica Lozo, Lorelei Morin, Jessica Daniels, Ray Fowler
Images :	Kirk Tougas
Montage images :	Frank Irvine, Janice Brown
Musique :	Annie Frazer, John Kim Bell
Société de production :	Tamarack Productions, National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada

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Citations sur The Learning Path [en anglais]

« The Learning Path is not a documentary about victimisation or oppression but an account of survival and renewal. The film bears witness to injustice, but it does not present the women's pain for the viewer's voyeuristic gaze. Rather The Learning Path uses autobiographical accounts as a means of displacing the outsiders' perspectives so familiar to us from archival and documentary images of Aboriginal people. »
-- Marian Bredin (source)

« The Learning Path (1991) praises the resilience of those who, often by assigning muteness to their pain, while keeping the voices of their peoples alive in memory, survived the brutality of the residential school system and have devoted their lives to the self-determination of their peoples and to education in their own communities. »
-- Carol Kalafatic (source)

Bibliographie sur The Learning Path

Chapitres de livres

BREDIN, Marian. « The Learning Path » , dans The Cinema of Canada, sous la direction de Jerry White, London, Wallflower, 2006, pp. 152-161. [en anglais]

Sites Web sur The Learning Path

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA. « NFB -- The Learning Path », National Film Board of Canada, http://www3.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=26041. [en anglais]