Reservation Soldiers
format:Digital Video, Colour, English
running time:48 & 45 minute versions available.
Writer/director:Lisa Jackson
Executive producer:Trish Dolman
producers:Trish Dolman, Trish Williams
Associate Producer :Nicole McKay
production financing:CTF, CTV, APTN, SCN,
Knowledge Network, CIFVF, Rogers Telefund
Filmed over the course of several years, Reservation Soldiers focuses on the relationship between the Canadian military and aboriginal youth. For Blair, Mahekan and Noel, three teenage boys from remote Western Canadian reservations, the military represents an opportunity they don't often see at home - adventure, discipline and cold hard cash. When they attend Bold Eagle, a six-week military boot camp, they face the reality of military life and ponder a possible future in the Canadian Army. Aboriginal recruiter Sergeant Ron Leblanc knows exactly where they're coming from. After 16 years in the military he is facing a difficult decision; pursuing a career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or "paying back" the military for helping him escape his troubled youth by shipping out to Afghanistan, Canada's most dangerous mission since the Korean War. For these young men, the Canadian military seems like the best option, but is it the only option for their future?
A Screen Siren Pictures Production. Produced in association with CTV Television with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund. Produced in association with Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, with the assistance of the Canadian Independant Film & Video Fund. Produced in association with Knowledge Network and SCN with the Participation of the Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax credit.Produced witht eh participation of Rogers Telefund.
Developed in association with CTV Television with the participation of British Columbia Film and the assistance of the Canadian Independant Film & Video Fund.