Adriana Chartrand

Adriana Chartrand is Michif from St. Laurent, Manitoba as well as Scottish/Irish/French. She is the Institute Manager at imagineNATIVE where she oversees year-round professional development programs for Indigenous screen creatives and the annual Industry Days during the festival. She has two degrees in Film Studies, including an MA from the University of Toronto, and a degree in Women’s and Gender Studies. She speaks English and French and is passionate about cultivating leadership in future Indigenous generations. She was born and raised in Winnipeg, MB.

Dislocation and Reclamation: Rebuilding Indigenous Families in Gil Cardinal’s “Foster Child” and Tasha Hubbard’s “Birth of a Family”

Dislocation and Reclamation: Rebuilding Indigenous Families in Gil Cardinal’s “Foster Child” and Tasha Hubbard’s “Birth of a Family”

By Adriana Chartrand March 1, 2021

Although the two documentaries were made 30 years apart, these stories help us understand the true scope of loss and the way reverberations from trauma can stretch out further than it’s possible to see.