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Short documentary Dear Georgina spotlighting life of Passamaquoddy elder streaming launch May 7
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Dear Georgina is the follow up to Emmy award-winning documentary Dawnland (2018)
She was witness to a lot of things in her youth. So from that moment when the film premiered was good healing. To see herself on that screen was good medicine. Even though she isn’t with us today, it still means the world to know Dear Georgina is being shared and that she is still being heard. LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) May 07, 2021 Dear Georgina, a short documentary about Passamaquoddy elder Georgina Sappier-Richardson who was removed from her home and community in downeast Maine by child protection services at the age of 2, had streaming launch today in honor of Mental Health Awareness month. The film follows Georgina as she attempts to re-integrate herself into the community she barely knew. It can be streamed for free on Upst
‘Dear Georgina’ tells one of many stories about injustice to Indigenous children
The short film about one woman s childhood in northern Maine shines a light on widespread abuse with lasting effects.
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Georgina Sappier-Richardson, taken from her home at age 2 and raised in a series of foster homes in northern Maine, is the subject of a new documentary, “Dear Georgina.”
Photo by Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock), courtesy of the Upstander Project
As a young girl growing up in foster homes in northern Maine, Georgina Sappier-Richardson often went hungry for lack of food, but picked potatoes before going to school – and then was forced to turn her paychecks over to her foster parents.