Tasha Hubbard

Tasha Hubbard is a First Nations/Métis filmmaker and educator living in Saskatoon, whose credits include two National Film Board of Canada documentaries exploring Indigenous rights in Canada: Two Worlds Colliding, a Canada Award-winning short film about the Saskatoon freezing deaths,[1] and most recently the 2017 feature-length documentary Birth of a Family, about four siblings separated during Canada's Sixties Scoop.

Family

Born in 1973, Hubbard's birth name was Carrie Alaine Pinay. Her biological mother was a young single Saulteaux/Métis/Cree woman whose parents and grandparents, as well as Hubbard's Cree/Nakota father, were all placed into the Canadian Indian residential school system. With limited support from family and social services, Hubbard mother's gave her to a social worker she had trusted and Hubbard was placed for adoption through the "Saskatchewan Adopt Indian Metis (AIM) pilot project," part of the Sixties Scoop.[2] Raised on a farm near Avonlea, Hubbard's adoptive parents were supportive of her search—it was her adoptive mother who first asked Hubbard, at the age of 14, if she wanted to find her biological family. Their search would take almost two years, until they hired a Cree lawyer who located Hubbard's birth mother in just two weeks—and turned out to be a friend of her biological father. She met her birth mother three days after her sixteenth birthday, followed by her father, three weeks later. She would go on to reunite with all of her ten siblings—the last, a sister, at the age of twenty-two.[3]

Birth of a Family

Her own experiences helped influence her decision to make Birth of a Family, about the reunion of four First Nations siblings separated as part of the Sixties Scoop. One of four reunited siblings is Betty Ann Adam, a journalist with the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, who also co-wrote film.[4][5] Adam, a Dene, had been encouraged to document her reunion with siblings Esther, Rosalie and Ben by Marie Wilson, a commissioner with Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Adam had known Hubbard for more than a decade to work, and approached her with the idea of making the film.[6]

Birth of a Family had its world premiere at the 2017 Hot Docs film festival.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Two Worlds Colliding wins Canada Award | Windspeaker - AMMSA". Saskatchewan Sage (vol 10 issue 1). Aboriginal Multi-Media Society. 2005. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  2. ↑ Hubbard, Tasha (10 July 2015). "How do you make amends for trying to erase a culture? | Toronto Star". Toronto Star. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  3. ↑ Hubbard, Tasha (2017-04-26). "My son asked me a question—and I felt the pain of the '60s Scoop again". Macleans. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  4. ↑ Deerchild, Rosanna (23 April 2017). "Filmmaker Tasha Hubbard's personal connection to the Sixties Scoop". Unreserved. CBC Radio. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  5. ↑ Taylor, Kate (20 April 2017). "The bold future of Indigenous documentary cinema". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  6. ↑ Commanda, Erica. "Birth of a Family: were we really better off? A new doc about the 60's scoop by Tasha Hubbard". Muskrat Magazine. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
  7. ↑ Elnicki, Leanne (2017-04-27). "5 must-see Canadian films at Hot Docs". CTVNews. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
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