Indian Horse
Stephen Campanelli
15
100 mins
2017
Canada
Ojibway, English
Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck, Ajuawak Kapashesit, Edna Manitowabi, Michiel Huisman
Director of Photography: Yves Bélanger
Editor: Geoff Ashenhurst
Produced by: Christine Haebler, Trish Dolman, PaulaDevonshire
Music: Jesse Zubot
Screenplay by: Dennis Foon
Production Designer: Oleg Savytski, Rocco Matteo
Sound Production: Patrick Haskill
Director Bio
Stephen Campanelli
Director Bio
Stephen Campanelli has worked with Clint Eastwood in most of his films including: Bridges of Madison County, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Flags of our Fathers and Sully. Now, with 63 motion pictures, a Best Camera Operator of the Year award, and a lifetime achievement award from the Society of Camera Operators, he’s moved to directing, with: Momentum, Rio Heat and Indian Horse.
Adapted from Richard Wagamese’s acclaimed novel, Indian Horse follows Saul Indian Horse, a young Canadian First Nations boy, who survives the brutal Indian residential schooling system overseen by Christian priests and, against all the odds, becomes a star ice hockey player. There is a triumph-over-adversity aspect to this film, but at its more worrying heart is the awful way Saul and his classmates are treated at school (beaten, kept in cages and worse), far from their own culture and heritage, and this contrasts with the sporting highs.