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.
Supported by
Community Broadcast Partner
Community Partner
T’áncháy Redvers, Passion Diabo, Alex Rice, Masha Peter, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie
Canada
2022
In English and Mohawk with English subtitles
Racial Discrimination
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 4
Bouncing through nostalgic aesthetics and genre storytelling, a contemporary point of view comes into focus.
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The Old Oak
The local pub is virtually the last community gathering place in an impoverished northern town. when an influx of Syrian refugees stokes xenophobic backlash, TJ, the bar's owner steps up and help the newcomers -- to the anger of some of his regulars.
Evil Does Not Exist
After the international success of Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi quietly made this small-scale independent film, a work of simplicity and grace about a rural community and the developers who want to built a "glamping" retreat in the woods.
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.