''Savage'' is a Canadian

short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

, directed by Lisa Jackson and released in 2009."Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools"
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Canadian Art Canadian art refers to the visual arts, visual (including painting, photography, and printmaking) as well as plastic arts (such as sculpture) originating from the geographical area of contemporary Canada. Art in Canada is marked by thousands of ...

'', November 22, 2013. The film depicts a

Cree The Cree, or nehinaw (, ), are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people, numbering more than 350,000 in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada, First Nations. They live prim ...

woman (Skeena Reece) crying and singing a sad traditional song while a young girl ( Ta'Kaiya Blaney) is transported to an

Indian residential school The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches. The scho ...

(although the film is deliberately ambiguous about whether the woman is the child's mother, or the child herself reflecting on her past as an adult.) At the school, however, the conventional narrative of Indian residential schools is subverted when the children perform a

hip hop Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip- ...

–inspired group dance routine in class after the teacher leaves the room.

Accolades

The film won the

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for Best Live Action Short Drama at the

31st Genie Awards The 31st Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 10, 2011 to honour films released in 2010.

."Lisa Jackson went from law to film as a way to find truth"
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'', February 12, 2017.

References

External links

* {{ACCT Short Films 2009 films Canadian musical drama films Best Live Action Short Drama Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners First Nations films 2000s musical drama films 2009 drama films Works about residential schools in Canada 2000s English-language films Canadian drama short films 2000s Canadian films English-language Canadian films English-language musical drama films 2009 musical films Canadian musical short films