Scared Sacred

2004 Canadian film

September 14, 2004 (2004-09-14)

CountryCanada

Scared Sacred is an independent film produced in 2004 and released in 2006 by director Velcrow Ripper.

Scared Sacred is a feature-length documentary that takes viewers to many of the places in the world that have experienced great suffering in recent years including Bhopal, Hiroshima, Israel and Palestine. The film portrays Ripper's own search for meaning, and communicates stories of hope in spite of oppression.

Co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Producers on Davie Pictures, Scared Sacred received a Genie Award for Best Documentary.^[1]

A second film by Velcrow Ripper, Fierce Light builds on where Scared Sacred ends. Fierce Light is about spiritual activists.

References

^ "Scared Sacred". NFB collections page. Retrieved 2009-03-30.

External links

Scared Sacred at IMDb
Official Page
Watch Scared Sacred on the NFB website
Scared Sacred, an interview with ascent magazine.
Velcrow Ripper on "Scared Sacred" (Video interview from Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary)

Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary

Canadian Film Awards
1968–1978

Never a Backward Step (1968)
Good Times, Bad Times (1969)
Wild Africa (1970)
Les Philharmonistes (1971)
Coming Home (1973)
Janis (1975)
Ahô: The Forest People (1976)
The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (1977)
The Champions (1978)

Genie Awards
1980–2011

Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980)
Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981)
P4W: Prison for Women (1982)
The Devil at Your Heels (1983)
Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984)
Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985)
Final Offer (1986)
Dads and Kids (1987)
God Rides a Harley (1988)
Comic Book Confidential (1989)
Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990)
The Famine Within (1991)
Deadly Currents (1992)
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993)
In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994)
The Champagne Safari (1995)
Bones of the Forest (1996)
Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997)
A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999)
Grass (2000)
Westray (2001)
Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003)
The Corporation (2004)
Scared Sacred (2005)
Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Radiant City (2007)
Up the Yangtze (2008)
A Hard Name (2009)
Last Train Home (2010)
At Night, They Dance (2011)

Canadian Screen Awards
2012–present

Stories We Tell (2012)
Watermark (2013)
Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014)
Hurt (2015)
I Am the Blues (2016)
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019)
Wandering: A Rohingya Story (2020)
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021)
To Kill a Tiger (2022)

Short Documentary

Avec tambours et trompettes (1968)
Juggernaut (1969)
KW+ (1970)
The Sea (1971)
Selling Out (1972)
Grierson and Faire hurler les murs (1973)
At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1975)
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)
Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1977)
The Hottest Show on Earth (1978)
Priory: The Only Home I've Got (1980)
No More Hiroshima (1986)
The World Is Watching (1989)
Stunt People (1990)
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1991)
A Song for Tibet (1992)
Le singe bleu (1993)
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (1995)
Maman et Ève (1996)
Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship (1997)
Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998)
Hemingway: A Portrait (1999)
The Delian Mode (2009)
Sirmilik (2011)
The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012)
Chi (2013)
Jutra (2014)
Bacon and God's Wrath (2015)
This River (2016)
Take a Walk on the Wildside (2017)
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018)
Take Me to Prom (2019)
Sing Me a Lullaby (2020)
Nalujuk Night (2021)
Patty vs. Patty (2022)