Mémére Métisse

BROADCAST DATE

Winter, 2009

FORMAT

Short TV Documentary
30 mins

AWARDS

Winner, Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Emerging Talent, ImagineNATIVE 2008

SYNOPSIS

Cecile St.Amant has been keeping a deep secret all her life. Cecile is Métis. Now her grand daughter is setting out to find out why the family’s Métis blood has been such an embarrassment to her mémére all these years. After a lifetime of shame, can mémére’s mind be changed and eyes be opened to a new view of her own Métis heritage?

KEY CREATIVES

Produced, Written and Directed by Janelle and Jérémie Wookey

BROADCASTER

CBC, Radio-Canada, APTN

LOCATION

Winnipeg, Manitoba