March 20, 2013

A Red Girl's Reasoning

A Red Girl's ReasoningDirector: Elle-Maija Tailfeathers
Live Short Subject
10 minutes • Canada

After the justice system fails the survivor of a brutal, racially-driven sexual assault, she becomes a motorcycle-riding, ass-kicking vigilante who takes on the attackers of other women who’ve suffered the same fate.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s an Indigenous female action heroWhen you think of action heroes or vigilantes normally they don’t include women.

But for one Vancouver filmmaker her latest project does just that.

An Aboriginal female vigilante at that.

She fights for the rights of all Indigenous women.
Comment:  The second link has a video report with clips from the short film.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"When you think of action heroes or vigilantes normally they don’t include women..." but when they do, they were almost always rape victims first.