Forrest Goodluck plays teenage Saul and played Hawk in The Revenant. He is a member of the Dine, Mandan, Hidatsa North (Dakota) and Tsimshian (Pacific Northwest Coast B.C.) tribes.
The film adaptation of Richard Wagamese's award-winning 2012 novel Indian Horse opens in theatres across Canada today.
The movie follows the life of Saul Indian Horse who is torn away from his Ojibwe family at the age of eight and taken to an Indian residential school in Ontario. Hockey becomes a way of dealing with the abuse he endures. His talent is recognized and he escapes the school to train and play for the Moose, a local First Nations team. He faces racism, battles alcoholism and embarks on a path to healing with support from his friends and his loving adopted family.
Indian Horse director Stephen Campanelli joins Vancouver-based Screen Siren Pictures producers Trish Dolman and Christine Haebler for a Q&A after the 6:30 p.m. screening at 5th Avenue Cinemas this Friday, April 13.
Stephen Campanelli and Christine Haebler will also participate in a post-screening Q&A after the 6:30 p.m. screening at 5th Avenue Cinemas on Saturday, April 14. Both events are being held by the First Weekend Club, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Canadian films.
Richard Wagamese was an Ojibwe author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in northwestern Ontario. He lived outside Kamloops, B.C. for several years and died on March 10, 2017 at the age of 61.
Indian Horse won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013. The film won the 2017 People's Choice Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It currently has an 88 per cent rating on film review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.
Watch the trailer here:
