Mi’kmaw actor’s directorial debut highlights injustice faced by Donald Marshall Jr.

By Lyndsay Armstrong A Mi’kmaw actor has made his film directing debut in a movie inspired by a road trip he went on with his uncle, Donald Marshall Jr., who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 11 years in jail. Glen Gould, from Membertou First Nation, was 17 when his mother sent him to Maine to help his uncle and bring him back home to Cape Breton. “It was one thing after another on that road trip,” Gould said in a recent interview. “We got our car stolen, ended up stranded at a motel … so I took that road trip and turned it into a movie.” During the trip, Gould said Marshall Jr. shared many stories and recounted what happened the night his friend, 17-year-old Sandy Seale, was…

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