Weeping Goes Unheard - based on historical records of native atrocities
Logline
A historical record attesting to the heartless and brutal atrocities of Canada's Indigenous people.
Genre
Other
Short Summary
Weeping Goes Unheard educates and highlights those unfamiliar with Canada's shady history in its treatment of native people. This comprehensive narrative presents their heartbreak and how they endeavored, failed, tried, again, and again to live together peacefully and equally with non-indigenous.
Weeping Goes Unheard represents a long-overdue look at tragic circumstances that have been existing in the shadows for far too long.
Setting
Canada
Based on a True Story
Yes
Plot - Premise
Tragedy
Plot - Other Elements
Meaningful Message
Mature Audience Themes
Extreme Violence
Main Character Details
Name: Aboriginal
Age: early to old age
Gender: Other
Role: Emotional
Key Traits: Heroic,Underdog
Additional Character Details
Name: too many to describe
Age: all ages
Gender: Other
Role: Emotional
Key Traits: Underdog
Additional Character Details
Name: many characters
Age: different ages
Gender: Male
Role: emotional
Key Traits: Heroic
Additional Character Details
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Development Pitch
Harrowing personal stories of racial genocide on the part of European settlers, which ultimately led to creating the abhorrent "Indian Act" - now 144 years old. This law paved the way for other subsequent immoral treatment of Canada's Indigenous people.