Seventeen

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Set over the course of seventeen hours, the lives of three Indigenous sex workers intersect through chance, relation, and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

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Nizhonniya Austin

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Taio Gélinas

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Kaniehtiio Horn

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Joel Oulette

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Shannon Baker

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Renae Morriseau

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Ray G. Thunderchild

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Mathias Retamal

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Ta'kaiya Blaney

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