Directed by Tara Audibert

Logline: The forbidden love between an Owl and a Fox drives them away from friends and family as they search for happiness together.

Synopsis: Owl dreams of having his own family. He finds a skulk of foxes. Owl thinks they are beautiful and watches over them for many days and nights. One unique Fox notices Owl and watches him. Their forbidden love drives Fox and Owl away to try to find happiness together.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 12 Minutes
GENRE: Animation
PRODUCTION FORMAT: Computer Animation
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: New Brunswick
TECHNIQUES: Computer Animation
KEYWORDS: Children, Cultural Analysis, Feminism, Self, Tale, Legend, Indigenous, Wolastoqiyik, Fox, Owl, Wolastoq, Tobique, Love, Maliseet, Alzheimer'S, Bill C-31, Indigenous Filmmaker, Female Filmmaker

Director's Statement: The Importance of Dreaming is a true story of how my parents fell in love. My mother is Wolastoqey from Tobique First Nation (Foxx), and my father was non-native French American, and twice her age (Owl). They fell in love and were married in 1974, prior to amendment Bill-C31 to the Indian Act. Women who married a non-native man lost their Native Status rights and were forced to live off reserve, cut off from their families, denied aid from the band, and even in the end were not permitted to be buried on reserve with their families. Despite everything and everyone against them, my parents didn't care because they were in love, and they made a family with three children who received the best of both worlds and go on to teach the importance of dreaming, that you can do an be anything you dream!