Zoe Saldana producing film on Canada's missing indigenous women
Zoe Saldana producing film on Canada's missing indigenous women
Gone Missing weaves together the story of three families affected since as many as 4,000 indigenous women have disappeared or been killed
Ashifa Kassam in Toronto
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Wednesday 20 July 2016 07.00 EDT
A new documentary by a team of Los Angeles-based filmmakers – including Avatar star Zoe Saldana – is hoping to shed light on the disappearance and murders of as many as 4,000 indigenous women across Canada.
“If this exact same story were being told in a country in Africa, I think we would be paying attention to it and we would be donating money to it,” said Leslie Owen, the American producer-director behind Gone Missing. “But because it’s in Canada, a first world nation, we don’t want to see it in our own backyard.”
She began researching the story in 2015, after stumbling across a news story highlighting 1,200 cases of murdered and missing women that had been compiled by police bodies from across the country. “I was like, what does that mean?”
Recent months have seen the number revised upwards, with one government minister estimating the number of indigenous women who went missing or were murdered over the past three decades could be as high as 4,000 women.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/zoe-saldana-film-gone-missing-canada-indigenous-women
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