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Two Worlds Colliding

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Producer(s)	Bonnie Thompson
Director(s)	Tasha Hubbard
Release Date	2004
Runtime	49 min
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	no

Film Description

Saskatoon, January 2000. It's a bone-chilling -20 C when Aboriginal man Darrell Night finds himself dumped on the city outskirts by two police officers. Night survives the elements by making it to a nearby power station where he finds shelter. Later he is stunned to hear that the frozen body of an Aboriginal man has been discovered in the same remote area. Then a few days later, the body of another man is found just a few hundred metres away. The documentary Two Worlds Colliding chronicles the painful story of what came to be known as Saskatoon's infamous "freezing deaths,"? and the schism between a fearful, mistrustful Aboriginal community and a police force that must come to terms with a shocking secret. Another police chief is brought in to lead the Saskatoon force, but it remains to be seen whether the gulf between two worlds can ever be bridged.