Gene Boy Came Home
(2007, 24 min.)
Director: Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)

A moving portrait of Eugene "Gene Boy" (pronounced Genie Boy) Benedict, a Vietnam veteran who returns to the Odanak Indian Reserve near Montreal, Quebec, Canada, after years of self-imposed exile. Celebrated documentarian Alanis Obomsawin examines the tragedies of war through the story of Benedict's journey home.

Image credit: Alanis Obomsawin - Photograph by Jeff Bear. © 2007 Storytellers In Motion. All right reserved.; Gene Boy with his adopted family. His Great Aunt and Uncle, Irene Hannis and Louis Hannis and Bobby Benedict. © 2007 Eugene Benedict. All rights reserved.