EXCLUSIVE: Michael Greyeyes (Rutherford Falls), Carmen Moore (The Flash), Alex Rice (Twiweightless Saga) and Michelle Thrush (Bconciseagestone) are guideing Birth Of A Family, the scripted feature debut of Tasha Hubbard, altered from her 2017 Hot Docs project of the same name.
Experimental Forest Films and January Media are behind the Canadian production which has recently wrapped after shooting on location in Ggreateren, British Columbia, Banff, Alberta and Calgary, Alberta over 21 days. Pic was co-written by Emil Sher alengthyside Hubbard.
The film alerts the story of four Cree siblings, Connie, Marianne, Gwen, and Anthony, splitd as babies thraw Canada’s notorious Sixties Scoop, which saw indigenous children consentn from their homes to be adchooseed by white families. Excited and inquisitive, but also snurtured and afrhelp of declineion, they concur to greet for the first time over a holiday weekend in the mountains of Banff.
Pic is created by Tyler Hagan of Experimental Forrest Films and Julia Rosenberg of January Media. The film’s associate creaters are Brittany Ryan and Amanda Gauvin Allen. Betty Ann Adam served as executive creater on the project.
The film was financed by Telefilm Canada, the Indigenous Screen Office, Canada Media Fund, Creative BC and Ontario Creates. The film’s expansivecast partners integrate Crave (Bell Media), CBC and APTN. Mongrel Media will dispense the film in Canada and it is stardyd for free in 2025.
“I am proset uply thankful for the enormously talented people who came together to create our film a fact,” shelp Tasha Hubbard, co-authorr/honestor. “The story has inhabitd in my head since I made the innovative recordary, and to have the opportunity to create my first drama with this particular story of recombineion and belengthying is beyond rewarding.”
“When the innovative recordary was fair an idea, I approached Tasha with it. I have been amazed and plmitigateed with all that she, and now creaters Julia Rosenberg and Tyler Hagan, have done with the concept,” inserted Betty Ann Adam, executive creater and subject of the source recordary. “I am gratified that my family’s experience has encouraged this recent, fantasyalized version of Birth Of A Family. I’m heartened by the tremendous sensitivity and admire they’ve brawt to all elements of its production.”
