êmîcêtôsêt - Many Bloodlines

Catalogue Number: WFG001
Producer: Winnipeg Film Group Inc.
Producers: Bailey, Alex
Directors: Ross, Theola
Subject: Canadian Social Issues, Documentary, First Nations Studies, Gender Studies, Health and Medicine, Indigenous Issues, Indigenous Peoples, Psychology, Science, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Women's Studies
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2020
Running Time: 10:54
In a relationship, two women decide that the white partner will carry her partner’s Indigenous child.
The film is a dual protagonist, character-driven story in which two women are on a path towards having a child together through the fertility treatment process. The central concept for the story is exploring how this couple will experience and explore building their own family while maneuvering through their difference in race, culture, class and gender roles.
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