''Savage'' is a Canadian

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

, 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 (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 years of hab ...

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

Cree The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada ...

woman (Skeena Reece) crying and singing a sad traditional song while a young girl (

Ta'Kaiya Blaney Ta'Kaiya Skoden Stoodis Kayden Gwanden Blaney (born 2001) is a singer, award-winning actress, speaker, and environmental activist from the Tla A'min Nation in British Columbia, Canada. She is an ambassador for the Native Children’s Survival In ...

) is transported to an

Indian residential school In Canada, the 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 Christian churches. The school sys ...

(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–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."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