Fire Song [DVD]

Product Description Andrew Martin gives a stellar performance as Shane, a gay Anishnaabe teenager in Northern Ontario, struggling to support his family in the aftermath of his sister's suicide. Shane was supposed to move to the city for University in the fall, and he has been trying to convince his secret boyfriend to come with him, but now everything is uncertain. Shane is torn between his responsibilities at home and the promise of freedom calling to him from the city. He pushes through barrier after barrier, determined to take care of his mom and earn money for school. But when circumstances take a turn for the worse and Shane has to choose between his family or his future, what will he do? Review Fire Song is a deeply moving and an indelibly-captured slice-of-life portrait of young and old alike. --The Film Corner Fire Song paints a complex portrait of the adversities facing modern aboriginal youth. --Cinema Axis A thoughtful and all-too-rare glimpse into an intersection of identities, marking a welcome new voice in Canadian cinema --Indiewire About the Director Director Adam Garnet Jones is a gay Cree/Metis filmmaker originally from Edmonton. His short films have been broadcast widely on television and at film festivals. In 2008, Adam received the imagineNATIVE/Canwest Mentorship Award and was the recent recipient of the RBC Emerging Artist Award and the Jim Burt Screenwriting prize for the script for Fire Song. He recently wrapped production on his second feature film, Great Great Great.
ASIN: B01KZKS73Q
VSKU: DBV.B01KZKS73Q.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Adam Garnet Jones|Morteesha Chickekoobannon|Manee Chacaby|PJ Thornton|Andrew Martin
Binding: Dvd
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