Exclusive: Justin Doshram has started production on a feature for the first time seventeenIt revolves around the lives of three original sexual buyers in Vancouver.
Production also revealed his tumultuous original team that includes NizhonNiya Austin (Curse), Taio Gelinas (Avatar: The last airbnder, beans), Kaniehtiio Horn (Seed, Alice Darling, reservation dogs), Shannon Baker (Grand bones) The new, singer, model, and human rights. Aalayna.
The film is followed for seventeen hours, and it follows three buyers of the two indigenous sexes whose lives intersect by chance, relationship and joint experience of family and colonial displacement.
The writer, director and coordinator Doshrem, who descended from the Métis community at St. Ambroise on Tendy 1, with his own experiences in the scenario.
“I am very excited to be far from the ground and work on it seventeen With such amazing and crew. This project was long in development with societal support and inclusion of indigenous population in urban areas and sex workers here in these coastal coastal areas that are not available.
The director refers to the lands inhabited by the coastal peoples, the original coast for thousands of years, and the British crown claims in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century without their permission, which includes the land on which Vancouver was built on now.
“By being a experimental sexual factor in myself, the story of stories aims to capture the force that occurs within the intersections of original sexual sovereignty and the chosen family relations, seventeen It is an extension of these ideas and I cannot wait for their participation with the fans. ”
Ducharme previously made the waves with short movies Positions and Dancer, Which was shown in festivals such as Imaginenative, Asinabka, BFI Flare, Outfest Fusion, NFLA, Seattle Queer Film Fest and more.
He was a co -writer, director and producer of the indigenous web series relatives,, Which was first shown in Imaginenative and was supported by Opicalnostive Origelals.
SEveneen It was developed with the support of the original film laboratory of the Sundance Institute Institute 2022, the exit laboratory 2022 from TIFF and 2024 TIFF Each Story Story.
This feature is produced by Foy Productions and experimental forest movies, with Ducharme also produced alongside Tyler Hagan (Remember the body when the world opensOlivia Marie Golusky (with me) An experimental forest films.
The director of photography is Taker Anderson and Branton Olvert is the composer.
Actresses are Renay Morriso (X files, north 60), Joel Olit (Can I get a witness, Nancy DrewOmar Farouk Khan (Night agent), Mathias Retamal (Al -Yarraa neighborhoodAnd Rai J. Thunderfield (Night invaders).
Forest Films Experimental Awards is a award -bound for social stories, which include credits, including TIFF addresses Never fixed, still still, seaweed, until the branches bend.
Production 2019 Remember the body when the world opens He won the Toronto Film Award for Critics for the Best Canadian Film Award (2020) and was chosen for distribution by the Ava Duvernay.
seventeen It is photographed that it is possible with the support of Telefilm Canada, the original screen office, CMF, Vortex Media and Bell Media/Crave.
