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"Older Than America"

"Older Than America"Older Than America
(2007, 102 min.) US
Director: Georgina Lightning (Cree)
Executive Producer: Audrey Martinez (San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians)
Producer: Christine Kunewa Walker (Native Hawaiian)
Actors: Adam Beach, Georgina Lightning, Wes Studi and Tantoo Cardinal

An accomplished first feature explores a dark reality that has shaped generations of Native American experience cross the U.S. and Canada–the Indian boarding school. A woman’s haunting visions reveal a web of intrigue that reaches out from the past in a cry for justice and healing.

Image credit: Both Older Than America

Adam Beach

Tantoo Cardinal

Georgina Lightning

Wes Studi

2009 Native American Film and Video Festival - NY premiere

2008 Native Cinema Showcase

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