| Superlative photography by Vilmos Zsigmond
highlights the family-oriented outdoor drama Journey to Spirit Island.
Set in the Pacific Northwest, the films stars Bettina Bush as Maria, a
teenage Native American girl living on a reservation, who has been brought
up in two worlds.
Nurtured in the old ways by her grandmother, a tribal elder and shaman,
her other world is the modern one of school, television and friends who
have little interest in the old Indian ways.
During a summer kayaking trip Maria, her brother and two young friends
from Chicago become caught up in a strange adventure involving the tribe's
sacred burial island, an ancient curse and a magic canoe.
Their survival depends on Maria's ability to meet the challenge of bringing
the gap between the old Indian ways and the contemporary world.
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