Jaynelle: It's Never Easy to Escape the Past
(2001, 48 min.) CANADA
Director: Coleen Rajotte (Cree/Métis)
Produced in association with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

Filmed over two years, Jaynelle chronicles a young Sayisi Dene mother's efforts to build a better life for herself and two sons. Her story is a study in courage and despair, reflecting her own mother's fractured history as a member of a community forced to relocate by the Canadian government.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI