{"id":672,"date":"2018-09-15T07:33:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T14:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2018-11-23T12:59:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T20:59:42","slug":"new-two-spirit-movie-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"New Two-Spirit Movie in the Works"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wildfire\/Courtesy of Bretten Hannam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Toronto, ONT<\/em>) Telefilm Canada<\/a> along with the 2018\u00a0Toronto International Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0invited\u00a0Bretten Hannam<\/a>, Mi’kma’ki and #Two-Spirit<\/a> writer and director, and actor-producer Gharrett Patrick Paon to complete at year\u2019s PITCH THIS!<\/a> The invitation was extended as a result of their film, Wildfire.<\/p>\n

After presenting some footage from Wildfire, the 6-membered jury of PITCH THIS! awarded Hannam and Patrick $15,000 to off-set costs in development of WILDHOOD.<\/p>\n

Wildfire, a Two-Spirit Indigenous identity drama, was one of five scripts in Canada selected for Whistler Film Festival\u2019s 2017 Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship and was pre-licensed by CBC\u2019s Canadian Reflections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWildfire and WILDHOOD are stories that have been evolving since I was a kid. When I finally shared them, I was overwhelmed by the positive response. Having people who support the story means everything\u2014from working on the script, to recently shooting the short version, to being accepted into PITCH THIS! It makes me excited to share our project with as many people as possible,\u201d said Hannam.<\/p>\n

With this PITCH THIS! award along with Canadian Film Centre\u2019s Producer\u2019s Lab (2017), Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, and Nova Scotia\u2019s Community Culture & Heritage \u2013 Screenwriting Development Fund with Damon D\u2019Oliveira as its Executive Producer, WILDHOOD will go into production and begin filming in the summer of 2019.<\/p>\n

According to TIFF\u2019s PITCH THIS!, WILDHOOD\u2019s synopsis is, \u201cIn this inspiring two\u2013spirit coming\u2013of\u2013age drama, a rebellious Mi’kmaw teenager runs away from home to find his birth mother and reclaim his heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Toronto, ONT) Telefilm Canada along with the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival invited Bretten Hannam, Mi’kma’ki and #Two-Spirit writer and director, and actor-producer Gharrett Patrick Paon to complete at year’s PITCH THIS! The invitation was extended as a result of their film, Wildfire. After presenting some footage from Wildfire, the 6-membered jury of PITCH THIS! awarded Hannam and …Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14,5,15],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-canada","category-current-events","category-identity","tag-two-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twospiritjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}