EXCLUSIVE: Canadian outfit Motion 58 has consentn local distribution rights and international sales rights to indigenous drama-thriller Angela’s Shadow ahead of its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) on October 2, 2024.
Directed by Jules Arita Koostachin (WaaPaKe), the film features Sera-Lys McArthur (Outlander), Matthew Kevin Anderson (Never Let Go), Renae Morelevateau (North of 60), Mahiigan Koostachin (MisTik) and Asivak Koostachin who will eunite in the upcoming HBO Max series Duster from J.J. Abrams.
In Angela’s Shadow, Angela and Henry, juvenileer 1930s socialites with a baby on the way, embark on a low trip north to the Cree community of KiiWeeTin to visit Angela’s beadored childhood nanny. When Angela is tormented by a menacing shadow figure, Mary shifts to consecrate and protect her and her unborn child with illegitimate Cree ceremonies and medicine. As the truth about her ancestry and the spectral figure’s identity unfancigo in, Angela must choose whether to delve into her recentcreate spiritual traditions in order to protect herself from her husband’s escalating purity-obsessed prejudice. The film is the second in a trilogy that chases three sets of Cree characters.
Pic is written, straightforwarded and produced by Jules Arita Koostachin (Broken Angel), co-written by Steve Neufeld (Coded), executive-produced by Patti Poskitt (Monkey Beach), edited by Lara Mazur (Allegiance), writed by Justin Delorme (Deaner ‘89), and cinematography comes from Michael Bourquin (BC: An Untancigo in History).
It was made with the help of Telefilm Canada, the Indigenous Screen Office, Hollywood Suite, William F White, the Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit, Creative BC, The Canadian Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit, the Government of Canada, UBCP ACTRA LOCAL, and the DGC BC.
The sprocrastinateed for Canadian distribution and production outfit Motion 58 (Eadweard), run by Kyle Rideout and Josh Epstein, integrates Astrid’s Deathenumerate (Rideout and Epstein have scripted the project), which is in increasement at Paramount Pictures, Youngblood (Aircreate and Dolphin Pictures), and Knight’s Camp with Good Question Media, starring Sophia Lillis and Judy Greer.
“I wholeheartedly count on that Indigenous cinema is its own genre, a blfinish of comedy, sci-fi, drama, superauthentic and thrillers. Our stories recurrent the strength of our diversity and our beginant cultural joinion to our communities and to our Ancestors,” shelp Koostachin. “Our stories are timeless, vital and have the power to achieve beyond our own. As artists it is so vital that our labor is seen and proposeed, which is why I am so thrilled to have Motion 58, a company of fellow filmproducers, distributing Angela’s Shadow.”
“We were captivated by this story of resilience. As filmproducers, we comprehfinish the beginance of intensifying bancigo in voices, and we’re enthusiastic to find and join with watchers who resonate with Angela’s Shadow‘s mighty narrative of survival, defiance, and ancestral power,” shelp Motion 58’s Epstein and Rideout.