Documentary spotlights wrestling tour’s impact on northern Indigenous communities – APTN News

Aug 09, 2024

The Death Tour premiers in theatres across Canada this month.

Filmmaker Sonya Ballantyne, who grew up in the Misipawistik Cree Nation in northern Manitoba, remembers the precise moment she became a wrestling fan.

“When I was a little girl, I encountered The Death Tour,” Ballantyne said during an interview with APTN News. “I met the wrestler Adam Copeland, who wrestles as Edge, and I remember being so terrified of him because I never really met that many white folks, and so having this six-foot tall white guy with big blue eyes, I was like, ‘oh my god no!’

“It was really cool because it was the first time I had ever met a wrestler.”

Decades later, Ballantyne’s first feature-length film is a documentary about the same tour that hooked her on the sport.

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