Rhymes for Young Ghouls | |
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Directed by | Jeff Barnaby |
Written by | Jeff Barnaby |
Produced by | Aisling Chin-Yee John Christou |
Starring | Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs Glen Gould Brandon Oakes Mark Antony Krupa Roseanne Supernault |
Cinematography | Michel St-Martin |
Edited by | Jeff Barnaby Mathieu Belanger |
Music by | Jeff Barnaby Joe Barrucco |
Distributed by | Les Films Séville monterey media inc. (usa) |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages | English 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]