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Rose film image, director Roxann Whitebean

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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Director
Cast

T’áncháy Redvers, Passion Diabo, Alex Rice, Masha Peter, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2022

Language

In English and Mohawk with English subtitles

Film Contact
Content Warning

Racial Discrimination

G
25 min

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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 headshot, Rose 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.