Rhymes for Young Ghouls

Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Theatrical poster
Directed byJeff Barnaby
Written byJeff Barnaby
Produced byAisling Chin-Yee
John Christou
StarringKawennáhere Devery Jacobs
Glen Gould
Brandon Oakes
Mark Antony Krupa
Roseanne Supernault
CinematographyMichel St-Martin
Edited byJeff Barnaby
Mathieu Belanger
Music byJeff Barnaby
Joe Barrucco
Distributed byLes Films Séville
monterey media inc. (usa)
Release date
  • 9 September 2013 (2013-09-09) (TIFF)
[1]
Running time
88 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
Mi'kmaq
Budget$1,500,000 CAD[2]

Rhymes for Young Ghouls is a 2013 Canadian independent drama film and the feature-film debut of writer-director Jeff Barnaby. Set in 1976 on the fictional Red Crow Mi'kmaq reservation, it takes place in the context of the Canadian residential school system.[3]

Although it tells the fictional story of a teenager named Aila and her plot for revenge, it is based on the history of abuse of the First Nations people by government agents, including a large number of reported cases of the mental and physical abuse of residential school children.[3] It is presented from the perspective of a teenage girl.[3]

  1. ^ "Rhymes for Young Ghouls". TIFF. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Box Office, Rhymes for Young Ghouls". IMDb. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Cupryn, Isabel. "Rhymes for Young Ghouls – Capsule Review". Canadian Film Review. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013.