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    UNREPENTANT:
The Award-winning Film on Genocide in Canada 
Makes its Victoria Screen Debut:
 
                   Saturday 7 PM June 9 2007
108 minutes Feature length documentary
 
Movies are shown on a 12' screen in the Eric Martin Pavilion in the 1900 block of Fort St       Entrance is at the corner of Fort St at Lee Ave
Use the south entrance, facing Fort St.    
                                    Donations are accepted.                                            
 
 
            UNREPENTANT:
Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
 
“Film's subject is very engaging to watch and learn about.”  New York Film Festival
 
Award-winning documentary film on
Canada's Dirty Secret
 
(Best Director of an International Documentary Film, New York Independent Film and Video Festival, November, 2006)
       (Best International  Documentary Feature Film, Los Angeles International Film and Video Festival March 21, 2007)
 
UNREPENTANT documents Canada's "dirty secret" - the planned genocide of aboriginal people in church-run Indian Residential Schools - and a clergyman's efforts to document and make public these crimes. First-hand testimonies from residential school survivors are interwoven with Kevin Annett's own story of how he faced firing, "de-frocking", and the loss of his family, reputation and livelihood as a result of his efforts to help survivors and bring out the truth of the residential schools.
 
This saga continues, as Annett continues a David and Goliath struggle to hold the government and churches of Canada accountable for crimes against humanity, and the continued theft of aboriginal land.
 
UNREPENTANT took nineteen months to film, primarily in British Columbia and Alberta, and is based on Kevin Annett's book Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust. The entire film was a self-funded, grassroots effort, which is reflected in its earthy and human quality.
 
Written by:      Kevin Annett and Louie Lawless
Produced by:  Louie Lawless, Kevin Annett and Lori O’Rorke
Directed by:    Louie Lawless
 
Louie Lawless     Producer -- Director--Writer
Director Louie Lawless was part of the Hollywood Production Team that produced the feature length documentary film “Manson”, nominated for an Academy Award.  Since that time, Louie has been a member of the Producers’ Guild of America and the Directors’ Guild of America. 
“When I first read Kevin Annett’s book, Love and Death in the Valley, I knew this was a story that begged to be told. It has all the ingredients of powerful drama: greed, corruption and murder, all involving the government and churches, and told through the eyes of a whistle blowing minister who lived this story”. Louie Lawless
 
Kevin Annett   Producer – Writer
Producer Kevin Annett is a former minister of the United Church of Canada who was expelled from the church and blacklisted in 1995, after he unearthed evidence of murder and other crimes committed in his church’s Indian boarding schools. Kevin continues his work as a counselor and advocate for native and poor people in Vancouver. He is the host of “Hidden from History”, a popular public affairs program on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and is the author of two books and numerous articles on the genocide of aboriginal people in Canada.
 
Contact:     e-mail: louie0@telus.net , hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca