The Unrepentant chronicles Canada’s dirty secret – the planned genocide of Native Americans at a church-run Indian boarding school – and a priest’s efforts to document and expose these crimes.
Firsthand testimonies from dorm survivors interweave with Kevin Annett’s own story of how he dealt with layoffs, dispossession, and the loss of his family as he worked to help survivors and uncover the truth. Stories of fame and livelihood. boarding school.
The saga continues as Annette continues David and Goliath’s struggle to hold the Canadian government and church accountable for crimes against humanity and continued theft of Aboriginal land.
The Unrepentant, which took 19 months to film primarily in British Columbia and Alberta, is based on Kevin Annett’s book Hidden from History: Canadian Massacres. The Canadian Holocaust). The entire film is self-funded and grassroots, in how down-to-earth and human it is.
