Congratulations to writer/director Mark Dieter, and producer Don List of Birdsong Communications, for their “Best Long Form Film” trophy at the recent Saskatchewan Independent Film Awards. Their documentary tells the story of the File Hills Farm Colony Experiment on the Peepeekisis Cree Nation. Descendants of this Saskatchewan Treaty Four reserve talk about their families’ struggle to maintain a farming community under the original treaty agreement of 1874. The story focuses on William Morris Graham, a government-appointed Indian Agent and his 1898 “failed” attempt to solve the “Indian problem.”
Talking Dog’s Rob Bryanton created the original music score and sound edit/final mix for this heartbreaking documentary film.
