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In the Wake of Our Ancestors
A film by Angela Watrous
Without truth, you will never be able to reconcile.
In the Wake of Our Ancestors (95 minutes) follows filmmaker Angela Watrous and her aging father on a cross-country reckoning with their family’s and their country’s 400-year history of settler-colonization—speaking directly with Native American descendants of those their ancestors harmed.
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We’ve completed “Pulling the Selects” and are on to the next phase of Editing!
Four years ago this month, we set off from California to Denver, at the beginning of an 11,000-mile road trip to begin filming In the Wake of Our Ancestors. Being new to filmmaking, I knew making a documentary would be a long discovery process. What I didn’t anticipate were our many delays…