Set in the 1960s, Rose is an Indigenous teen in her last weeks of pregnancy. Pressured by a government agent to give up her baby for Canadian adoption upon delivery, Rose’s family do all they can to intervene—with the help of an unlikely ally.
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T’áncháy Redvers, Passion Diabo, Alex Rice, Masha Peter, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie
Canada
2022
In English and Mohawk with English subtitles
Racial Discrimination
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VIFF Short Forum: Program 4
Bouncing through nostalgic aesthetics and genre storytelling, a contemporary point of view comes into focus.
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Credits
Producer
Jason Brennan
Screenwriter
Roxann Whitebean
Cinematography
Patrick Kaplin
Editor
Nicolas Paquette
Original Music
Mathieu Vanasse
Art Director
Donna Noonan
Director
Roxann Whitebean
Roxann Whitebean is a media artist who hails from the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawà:ke. Her work can be seen on CBC, Paramount+, CBS, APTN, TVO Kids, PBS, and at film festivals worldwide. She won the International Emerging Filmmaker Award at the Montréal First Peoples Film Festival and is a recipient of the REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award. She has been nominated for Hot Docs’ Lindalee Tracey Award. Her work as a writer in scripted narratives include SkyMed.