Film · Documentary
The Bear Inside a Whale (2025)
1 h 20 minDocumentary2025
Stan Hill Jr. is a Haudenosaunee artist living in Miawpukek First Nation Reserve, Conne River, Newfoundland. In “The Bear Inside a Whale,” he and his family discuss racism, identity, religion, creation and art, along with the cultural extinction of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Throughout the film, we follow Stan carving a bear out of a whale vertebra. And we visit The Rooms (museum) in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where Stan talks about viewing and reclaiming Indigenous artefacts.
- Director
- Kenneth J. Harvey
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Release date
- June 17, 2025
Cast
- Stan Hill Jr.Self
- Marilyn JohnSelf
- Susan QuannSelf
- Trey HillSelf
