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Writtne and Directed by Joe E. Ironstand during our LAB 1: Short Film Program

INHERITANCE looks at the intergenerational effect brought on from residential school systems, including substance use, distance in families, legal problems, domestic violence, child abuse, and social services. Will’s dad has just been arrested, so to deal with it he spends the night drinking and popping pills. When he doesn’t wake up he finds himself reliving moments of his life, and his family’s past. Will relives that day when it was his father Albert who sold him the drugs he’s hooked on. Then later on he got arrested after a fight with his girlfriend. Will then visits Albert as a child living with his grandmother Doris, how she raised his dad and aunty, and how she ended up losing her children. Then Will visits Doris as a child when she was trying to run away from the people at her residential school. She wanted to escape back then… Can Will escape this now?

WINNER - Best Student Short Film (Native American Indian Film & Video Festival of the Southeast)