AMÁ (2020)
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Raindog Films.
DISTRIBUTOR: Dartmouth Films.
Producer
Images courtesy of Ilka Hartmann
Amá is a feature-length documentary that tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the United States Government during the 1960s and ’70s. Girls were removed from their families and sent to boarding schools, forced relocation away from their traditional lands, and involuntary sterilisation.
The result of nine years of painstaking and sensitive work by filmmaker Lorna Tucker, the film features the testimony of many Native Americans, including three remarkable women who tell their stories - Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan and Charon Aseytoyer - as well as a revealing and rare interview with Dr. Reimart Ravenholt whose population control ideas were the framework for some of the government policies directed at Native American women.
Nuala produced Amá while working at Raindog Films.
For more information on the film please visit the following websites.
Lorna Tucker on BBC Breakfast discussing Amá.