Event
[Weekly Indigenous Film Series] "Birth of a Family" (2006, Hubbard)
Thursday, April 5, 2018 15:15
Education Building
Art Hive, 1st Floor, 3700 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2, CA
Weekly Indigenous Film Series
Birth of a Family (2016)
Tasha Hubbard, dir. National Film Board, 79 mins.
Three sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families across North America, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary by director Tasha Hubbard.
Removed from their young Dene mother鈥檚 care as part of Canada鈥檚 infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie and Ben were four of the 20,000 Indigenous children taken from their families between 1955 and 1985, to be either adopted into white families or to live in foster care. As the four siblings piece together their shared history, their connection deepens, bringing laughter with it, and their family begins to take shape.
