About:
Sienna Belanger-Lee a 22 year old Indigenous woman who’s story is important because many Indigenous people feel they must leave the reserve to have opportunities for a good future.
This is a half hour documentary about a series of life changing events discribed by Mariel Belanger and Sienna Belanger-Lee. Sienna finds a deeper meaning to her life with wild horses when a raging forest fire threatens not just her home, but her new equine family. Reconnecting to family, culture and land, in this coming-of-age story, horses heal and women come together. Sienna realizes to stay is to be a steward to the land, horses and ourselves as responsibility to place.
sn̓kłca̓ʔsqáx̌aʔ tkłmílxʷ – Horse Woman is produced with the support from TELUS STORYHIVE, and NOW available for free on TELUS Optik YOUTUBE Channel
Festival and Screenings included:
Okanagan Screen Awards, Latino & Native American Film Festival, Native Lens, Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival – Film Festival, Kamloops Indigenous Film Festival, Vernon Performing Arts Centre and Powerhouse Theatre
A short documentary by Directors Mariel Belanger and Sienna Belanger-Lee.
Co-Producers: Mariel Belanger & Keli Westgate
Cinematography: Darko Sikman
Editor: Joseph Pinheiro
Assistant Director: Victoria Jaenig
Music: Lady Dia and the Kinfolk Choir
Sienna Belanger-Lee
x̌ixutəm, Shongswiigeezus (she/her), is a Syilx and Ojibway person from the Okanagan Nation, OKIB, located at the head of Lake Okanagan and is a student through UBC Okanagan obtaining a bachelor’s degree in the nsyilxcn/nqilxʷcn language through the BNLF program.
Sienna currently resides at nsisulaʔxʷ – dry creek (Bradley Creek) where she facilitates indigenous planting opportunities as well as her digital arts, language learning, and horsewomanship.
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