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Birth of a Family directed by: Tasha Hubbard ; produced by: Bonnie Thompson, David Christensen ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal).
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoptees--Canada.
- Adoptees.
- Child welfare--Canada--History.
- Child welfare.
- Family reunions--Canada.
- Family reunions.
- Indigenous children--Government policy--Canada--History.
- Indigenous children.
- Indigenous children--Canada--Social conditions.
- Indigenous children--Canada--Social conditions--History.
- Indigenous peoples--Cultural assimilation--Canada--History.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (46 min.)
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film
- Place of Publication:
- [Montreal] National Film Board of Canada 2024
- Summary:
- 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's care as part of Canada's 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. Now all in middle age, each has grown up in different circumstances, with different family cultures, different values and no shared memories. Birth of a Family follows them through the challenges, trepidations and joys of their first steps towards forming their family. Meeting all together for the first time, they spend a week in Banff, Alberta, sharing what they know about their mother and stories about their lives and the struggles they went through as foster kids and adoptees. As the four siblings piece together their shared history, their connection deepens, bringing laughter with it, and their family begins to take shape.
- Credits:
- Writer, Tasha Hubbard, Betty Ann Adam ; director, Tasha Hubbard ; producer, Bonnie Thompson ; executive producer, David Christensen ; editor, Hans Olson ; director of photography, Allan Leader ; cinematographer, Thomas Dudley, Jim Moule ; location sound, Per Asplund, Brad Martin ; sound design, Perry Blackman ; mixer, Serge Boivin.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen. .
- OCLC:
- 1422277878
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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