| VISION
QUEST
// the
video. 48 mins
EDNA BRASS SAYS:
I would like to dedicate this film to the homeless people, murdered
and missing women also Cheyenne's Mom, Cheyenne is 10 years old.
CHEYENNE BRASS SAYS:
To let the police know what it's like to be a person starving
downtown.
RETA BLIND SAYS:
One of the things we need to do, is to make
the world aware.
GLORIA A. MULCAHY
SAYS:
Vision Quest 2001 is dedicated to the survivance of our Original
Peoples and to strengthening the heart beat of our many Nations.
The film honours the lives of missing and murdered women and the
homeless people from downtown east side, Vancouver.
CHANTELLE TUCKER
SAYS:
A group of people (residential school survivors) came out to demonstrate
the need for healing within our communities. First Nations women
and men camped out at Oppenheimer park, located in the east side
of down town Vancouver. Transpiring from this event is a spirit
united by love. Driven truly by the love of people, our planet
and need to help those who are suffering in the east side and
anywhere else. This is a proactive film that is dedicated to the
missing / murdered women & their families, and those in the
homeless community both aboriginal and non aboriginal alike.
SISTERS IN
SPIRIT SAYS:
Over the past 20 years, approximately 500 Aboriginal
women have gone missing in communities across Canada. Yet government,
the media, and Canadian society continue to remain silent.
In Vancouver, more than 50 women went missing
in that city’s Downtown Eastside. Sixty percent were Aboriginal,
and most were young. These were poor women involved in the sex
trade. They struggled with drugs and alcohol. Some suffered from
the effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and many were victims of
childhood sexual abuse. Every one of them grew up in a foster
home. In other words, their lives bore all of the markings of
the violence of colonization. more
here
UNIVERSITY
OF WESTERN ONTARIO SAYS:
Vision Quest 2001 offers viewers a glimpse of hope
in this documentary account of a Traditional Vision Quest held
amidst the pain and abuse created within an urban community. The
five-day fast unfolds in the core of Vancouver's notorious poverty
area-- downtown east side --Hastings and Main, Pigeon Park and
Victory Square.
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