From the Abenaki Nation, informing the public on First Peoples issues motivates her approach. Kim O’Bomsawin completed a master’s degree in sociology before embarking on her documentary filmmaking career. At the same time, the film offers a moving, inspirational meditation on the interconnectedness of language, earth, spirituality, and culture.ĬALL ME HUMAN, directed by Kim O’Bomsawin (Abenaki), tells an anti-colonialist story about revitalizing and preserving Indigenous languages, history, and culture. The contrasts between city and wilderness mirror Bacon’s upbringing, creating a poignant sense of the displacement she and her generation experienced. In each place she visits, Bacon shares reflections and stories, backdropped by the film’s stunning cinematography. This endearing film moves with Bacon across Canada - Montreal, Pessamit, and the tundra. Now, with charm, grace, and quiet tenacity, she is leading a movement to preserve her people’s language and culture. Born in the Innu community of Pessamit, Bacon was sent to residential school at the age of five and spent fourteen years of her life there. Innu writer Joséphine Bacon is part of a generation that has lived through significant changes in Indigenous traditions and colonialist displacement.