Native Canadians families looking for female relatives that went missing along a 700 km road locals dubbed the "Highway of Tears" in northern British Columbia. Stalled investigations and institutional apathy was lodged at RCMP by family members. The film premiered on Al-Jazeera International, July 2006.
____Hrynchuk, Antonio, Craig Silliphant, and Angie Tate. 2007. Stolen sisters. [Saskatoon, Sask.]: Fahrenheit Films.
Inspired by a 2004 Amnesty International report of the same name, the film humanizes the tragedy within the Native Canadians community by looking at the disappearances of Daleen Muskego and Amber Redman from Saskatchewan. The documentary broadens out to highlight their disappearance being an ignored, common occurrence. The film premiered on Global Television, July 2007.
____Smiley, Matthew, Carly Pope, Amy Belling, Brandon Lott, Daniel Tannenbaum, Chin Injeti, Nathan Fillion, et al. 2012. Highway of tears. Montréal, Québec: Finesse Films, [Westmount, Québec].
First premiered in 2013 at the TIFF Human Rights Watch Film Festival in Toronto, Matt Smiley's film documents several decades of murders and disappearances of Native Canadians women along a section of British Columbia's Highway 16, and how institutionalized racism played in their deaths. Racism, being an underlying theme, is evident in the Third World poverty of reservations, high unemployment, violence, the lackadaisical interest by Crown authorities in solving these mysteries.
____Welsh, Christine, and Svend-Erik Eriksen. 2006. Finding Dawn. New York, NY: Women Make Movies.
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada the documentary begins with Dawn Crey's disappearance from a Vancouver neighborhood and the discovery of her remains, along with other missing women, at the farm of Robert Pickton. The filmmaker also investigated the disappearances of Ramona Wilson along the Highway of Tears, and Daleen Bosse in Saskatoon, SK. Historic and socioeconomic causes within Native Canadians communities are explored which propelled a number of victims into drug abuse and sex work, making them susceptible.
