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Sparrow Song
(scheduled for 2012 release)
Sparrow Song is the harrowing yet triumphant story of one young woman's journey into her own past, and that of her family. Nadia Mclaren grows up in the far north of Ontario, ignorant of her Ojibwa roots. The major figure in her life--the person she loves beyond all reason--is her grandmother. But there are undercurrents suggesting all is not right with Nadia's world. Slowly, through signs and visions, she comes to learn that she is indeed First Nations. And as she is told more about her family's tortured past, she learns that grandma was a child of Canada's vicious residential school policy, ripped from her parents at a young age and horribly abused. In order to heal, Nadia must learn the truth. And in doing so, her love and respect for her grandmother only deepens.
Told with a staggeringly original visual style, combining catholic and First Nations iconography with highly expressive character drawings, Sparrow Song is an original, beautiful and never-seen-before portrait of a wounded family, told by one of Canada's best kept secrets. |
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