FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23
7PM
CAMH Arrell Family Auditorium
1025 Queen Street West, 2nd Floor
Toronto, Ontario
ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair Accessible Venue, Open Captions
Tasha Hubbard / 2025 / English & French / Canada / 91 min
GENRE: DRAMA
TOPIC: COMMUNITY, FAMILY, INDIGENOUS, INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA, MEMORY
TYPE: FILM
Canadian filmmaker Tasha Hubbard makes her narrative film debut with an intimate family drama about the damaging legacy of the Sixties Scoop. Based on her documentary Birth of a Family, the film focuses on four siblings (Michael Greyeyes, Michelle Thrush, Carmen Moore, and Alex Rice) as they reunite over a weekend in Banff. Through serious conversations around unburied secrets and emotionally resonant experiences, each are given time and space to reconnect and build something tenuous and beautiful out of their traumatic past.
The film, along with Hubbard’s screenplay (co-written with Emil Sher) expertly positions the stunning beauty of The Rockies alongside a quiet regeneration of hope and a deeper understanding of the important work still to be done in the area of reflection and reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous communities
— Emma Badame, Rendezvous with Madness 2026 Film Programmer
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Dr. Tasha Hubbard is a writer, filmmaker and associate professor at the University of Alberta. She is from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory and has ties to Thunderchild First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. Her academic research has focussed on Indigenous efforts to return the buffalo to the lands and Indigenous film in North America.
Her first solo writing/directing project, Two Worlds Colliding (NFB), about Saskatoon’s infamous “starlight tours,” premiered at imagineNATIVE in 2004 and won the Canada Award at the Gemini Awards in 2005. In 2017, Tasha directed the NFB-produced feature documentary Birth of a Family, about a Sixties Scoop family coming together for the first time during a holiday in Banff. It premiered at Hot Docs and landed on the top-ten audience favourites list. It also won the Audience Favourite for Feature Documentary at the Edmonton International Film Festival and the Moon Jury prize at imagineNATIVE.
Her latest feature documentary is nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, a personal exploration of the cost of the death of Colten Boushie.
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