Quote:
"In [Shelley] Niro's narrative It Starts with a Whisper, we see how the city and its media bombardment of Indian stereotypes and bleak statistics isolate Shanna from her family and from her own freedom / responsibility to live her life as a young Tutelo woman."
-- Carol Kalafatic

Source:
Kalafatic, Carol. "Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (p. 111)