Directed by Theola Ross

Logline: In a relationship, two women decide that the white partner will carry her partner's Indigenous child.

Synopsis: 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.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 11 Minutes
GENRE: Documentary
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: Cree, English
LOCATION: Ontario
KEYWORDS: Ivf, Reciprocal Ivf, Cross-Cultural Relationship, Queer Relationship, Queer, Indigenous, White, Interracial Couple, Baby, Birth, Midwife, Indigenous Filmmaker, Female Filmmaker

Director's Statement: As an emerging Queer, Two-Spirit Cree film-maker residing in Tkaronto, born to Pimicikimak Cree Nation, I advocate for my communities through active decolonization and the Indigenizing of stories, knowledge, language and spaces. My stories are charged with a socio-political energy centring advocacy for social justice issues affecting the Indigenous and Queer communities.I've been a Social Worker for almost 20 years and seven years ago I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder pushing me to prioritize my own healing. I did so by honouring my creative spirit through film. I helped a friend write a script for a film course; submitting a one-minute promo video that ended up winning The Best Documentary Pitch Category at imagineNATIVE2012. My story crosses between the lines of being Indigenous, Queer & 2S as well as bringing an Indigenous daughter into a world that often discards brown Womxn & ignores the validity of queer families.My experiences with adversity occur daily. I've dealt with family rejection, binary beliefs that infect and plague Native spirituality, substance abuse, mental health and relationship issues. The underlying connection between all of these is the trauma created by colonization. Through the film, we address both the trauma and the healing. This conversation becomes even more complex as my partner is white. While our beliefs and politics are in line, her experiences are wildly different. This leads to many heavy moments of understanding & misunderstanding.