2016 Animation
Canada
1h
SECRET PATH, a new animated film telling the true story of Chanie Wenjack, a twelve year-old boy who died fifty years ago from hunger and exposure while fleeing from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School near Kenora, Ontario, 500 miles away from home.
The film sheds light on a dark part of Canada's history -- the long-supressed mistreatment of Indigenous children and families by the residential school system -- with the hope of starting anew on a road to reconciliation.
| Directed by | Gord Downie |
| Written by | Gord Downie, Mike Downie |
| Company | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) |