The Road Forward(2017)

🎬101 min
📅2017-04-30
🎭Documentary, Music
⭐9.0/10

Overview

The Road Forward is an electrifying musical documentary that connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s—with the powerful momentum of First Nations activism today. Interviews and musical sequences describe how a tiny movement, the Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood, grew to become a successful voice for change across the country. Visually stunning, The Road Forward seamlessly connects past and present through superbly produced story-songs with soaring vocals, blues, rock, and traditional beats.

Production

ONF | NFB

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Cast

Evan Leslie Adams
as Ed Nahanee
Chief Leonard George
as Native Voice Stringer (as Leonard George)
Ronnie Dean Harris
as Native Voice Stringer / George Manuel / Singer / Self
Wayne Lavallee
as Native Voice Stringer / Guitar Player / Singer / Self
Jeremy James Lavallee
as Native Voice Stringer / Fiddle Player / Singer / Self
Stephen E. Miller
as Tom Hurley
Latash Maurice Nahanee
as Native Voice Stringer / Singer & Hand Drummer / Self
Corey Payette
as Native Voice Stringer / Singer & Hand Drummer / Self
Murray Porter
as Native Voice Stringer / Keyboard Player / Singer / Self
Russell Wallace
as Native Voice Stringer / Choir Singer / Hand Drummer / Self

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