This is an important documentary. I never realized that Ukrainian people were the first people to be interned in Canada many years ago.
Canadian documentary That Never Happened: Canada’s First National Internment Operations was screened earlier at the United Nations in Geneva. The award-winning movie, which premiered at over a dozen film festivals across North America, exposes the true story of Canada’s First National Internment Operations that took place between 1914 and 1920. During that time over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in Canada, the majority of which were of Ukrainian descent.
The Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations specially selected the film to be screened during the September 2018 Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva as part of its celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. After the screening, director Ryan Boyko and producer Diana Cofini were joined for a special Q&A with Rosemary McCarney, Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, and Georgette Gagnon, Director of Field Operations and Technical Cooperation for the UN Human Rights Office. The screening was attended by delegates from around the world including Ukrainian Ambassador Yurii Klymenko.
THAT NEVER HAPPENED was co-written and directed by Ryan Boyko. He is a multi-award winning Visual Artist and an accomplished Actor who has performed on many of Canada’s finest stages including The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, two seasons with the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival and two seasons at The Stratford Festival of Canada, where he won the Tyrone Guthrie Award. He produced, wrote and directed the innovative, multi-award winning series, “The Camps” in September 2016. The 33 episode WEB series has been seen in 174 countries around the world, and has garnered two awards.
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