First Nation runners from the 1967 Pan Am torch relay remember their teen-age years when they ran 800-km with the Games torch only to not be allowed into the Winnipeg Pan Am stadium. In 1999 they received an apology and finished the last part of their journey, 32 years later. Torchrunners looks at the tradition of running and how residential school survivors used that tradition to endure residential school. This is a film about endurance, forgiveness and celebrating culture.
First Nation runners from the 1967 Pan Am torch relay remember their teen-age years when they ran 800-km with the Games torch only to not be allowed into the Winnipeg Pan Am stadium. In 1999 they received an apology and finished the last part of their journey, 32 years later. Torchrunners looks at the tradition of running and how residential school survivors used that tradition to endure residential school. This is a film about endurance, forgiveness and celebrating culture.
Torchrunners, Laura Robinson, offert par l'Office national du film du Canada