Tasha Hubbard’s Meadowlarks is a dramatic narrative of the director’s award-winning documentary Birth of a Family. Hubbard portrays the same story of reunited First Nations siblings who were separated by the Sixties Scoop, as they spend a week in Banff to gain an intimate bond that was destroyed when they were relocated to different families. With the exception, however, of one heart-stricken brother who prefers to live life in the present instead of refacing on a…
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up exhibits how strong voices can persevere during tragic times. Not since Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine has a documentary been made with this much love for a life lost.
Birth of a Family (DIR. Tasha Hubbard) Birth of a Family follows four siblings, three sisters and a brother, who were taken from their mother and placed in separate families during the “sixties scoop” – a period of three decades in Canada that saw tens of thousands of indigenous children removed from their homes and sent to live with non-indigenous families throughout North America. Now middle aged, the siblings meet for the first time and attempt…