A new partnership between the National Film Board (NFB) and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) will ensure that thousands of residential school survivors’ voices from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are preserved for future generations.
The partnership, which was announced on Wednesday, will see the NFB preserve close to 7,000 individual statements from the NCTR’s vast audio and visual records, which contains more than 1,500 hours of content.
“I think it’s really important that people have access. Fifty years from now, people will listen to the stories of what the survivors went through … And again, it’s the ongoing