Blood River

• Written and Directed by Kent Monkman
• Produced by Gisèle Gordon
• 23:00 minutes, colour, English
• Distributed by Vtape

Synopsis

Rose (Jennifer Podemski), a young Indigenous law student, can barely tolerate her well-meaning but clueless adoptive mother (Tantoo Cardinal). Feeling at odds with her idyllic white suburban existence, she searches for her birth family. Through Rose's vivid hallucinatory nightmares, we see a young Indigenous man trying to survive on the streets of a big city. As he is pimped, bullied and bashed, Rose experiences his terror and isolation. When she finally meets her birth brother (Brandon Oakes), they face huge challenges in bridging the gap between his harsh reality and her sugar-coated existence.

Vtape TAPECODE 672.01