Image Credit: Matt Smiley

By James Peters

Residential Schools

Eye-opening documentary on the impacts of residential schools to be screened in Kamloops Wednesday

May 10, 2022 | 11:05 AM

KAMLOOPS — Local residents are being invited to the screening of a revelatory documentary that “exposes the link between residential schools and the 29,000 Indigenous children and youth in Canada’s child welfare system.”

For Love will be shown at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Kamloops Wednesday (May 11) starting at 7:00 p.m.

WATCH the trailer. (Video Credit: YouTube / Matt Smiley)

Film creators and producers Matt Smiley and Mary Teegee will also be present at the screening.

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“The horrors of residential schools are finally starting to be understood by non-Indigenous Canadians and Americans,” said Teegee in a news release. “I wanted this movie to create awareness about the generational trauma caused by residential schools. But it also celebrates the resilience of our people, and shows how communities across the country are rebuilding family connections and rich cultures.”

Secwépemc Child and Family Services Agency is hosting the screening. Tickets, which are available at the door and online, cost $15, with $1 from each ticket going to the Kamloops Film Society and all subsequent profits going to Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc — Le Estcwicwe´y (The Missing).

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For more information:

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Support Resources:

• KUU-US Crisis Line: 1-800-588-8717
• Tsow-Tun-Le Lum: 1-866-403-3123
• Indian Residential School Survivors Society Toll-Free Line: 1-800-721-0066
• 24hr National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419