Little Fowl: Canadian Drama Starring Darla Contois and Lisa Edelstein Coming to PBS

Little Fowl is coming quickly to PBS. The community has picked up the Canadian drama, which can start airing in October. Darla Contois and Lisa Edelstein star within the six-episode restricted sequence created by Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Moscovitch.

The Little Fowl drama follows a younger girl (Contois) looking for her beginning household. Ellyn Jade, Osawa Muskwa, Joshua Odjick, Imajyn Cardinal, Braeden Clarke, Eric Schweig, and Michelle Thrush additionally star within the sequence.

PBS introduced immediately that celebrated Canadian drama LITTLE BIRD will premiere October twelfth at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS and throughout all PBS platforms within the US (test native listings). From Rezolution Photos and OP Little Fowl, and Canadian broadcasters Crave and APTN, in partnership with Fremantle, the six-part, one-hour restricted sequence explores common themes of resilience within the face of trauma and loss. It follows Bezhig Little Fowl (Darla Contois) as she embarks on a path to search out her beginning household and uncover the hidden fact of her household historical past.

PBS may even broadcast and stream COMING HOME, a 90-minute companion documentary offering historic context in regards to the Sixties Scoop on October twelfth at 10:00 p.m. ET (test native listings). Directed by Erica Daniels (Run as One), COMING HOME explores the connections between the ground-breaking motion for Indigenous narrative sovereignty and the affect of the kid welfare system as skilled by the LITTLE BIRD sequence’ Indigenous creatives, crew, and Sixties Scoop advisors. COMING HOME gives a structuring through-line, interwoven with interviews with solid, crew, and neighborhood members revealing private connections to the Sixties Scoop.

LITTLE BIRD and COMING HOME will stream on all station-branded PBS platforms together with PBS.org, and the PBS app, obtainable on iOS, Android, Roku streaming gadgets, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fireplace TV, Samsung Sensible TV, Chromecast, and VIZIO. Each applications may even be obtainable to stream on PBS Passport and the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel.

Faraway from her residence in Lengthy Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan, Bezhig Little Fowl is adopted right into a Montréal Jewish household at age 5, changing into Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the household she misplaced and is keen to sacrifice all the things to search out them. Her search lands her within the Canadian Prairies, worlds aside from all the things she is aware of. As she begins to trace down her siblings, she unravels the thriller behind her adoption and discovers that her apprehension was linked to a racist authorities coverage, now generally known as the Sixties Scoop. Bezhig’s sense of identification shatters, and she or he is pressured to reckon with who she is and who she desires to develop into.

Led by Contois, the character-driven drama incorporates a gifted solid of Indigenous actors, together with: Ellyn Jade; Osawa Muskwa; Joshua Odjick; Imajyn Cardinal; Braeden Clarke; Eric Schweig; and Michelle Thrush. Rounding out the solid is Lisa Edelstein (Home, M.D., Girlfriends’ Information to Divorce) who performs Esther’s adoptive mom, Golda Rosenblum.

The current winner of the coveted Viewers Award on the 2023 SERIES MANIA Competition in Lille, France, LITTLE BIRD was filmed in and round Winnipeg, in Brokenhead Ojibway Nation on Treaty 1 territory and in Sioux Valley Dakota Nation. LITTLE BIRD showrunner Jennifer Podemski was additionally not too long ago introduced with an Academy Board Of Administrators’ Tribute Award on the 2023 Canadian Display screen Awards.

“PBS is proud to bring American viewers the premiere of LITTLE BIRD,” says Maria Bruno Ruiz, Vice President, Program Content material Technique and Scheduling at PBS. “We aspire to bring authentic programs rich in culture and diversity to our audience and we’re thrilled to add the powerful LITTLE BIRD story to our platforms.”

“It is a powerful narrative that not only engages and pulls on your heartstrings, but also educates on a profoundly disturbing time in North American history that is rarely portrayed.” stated Germaine Candy, Managing Director, Content material Acquisitions at PBS Distribution. “In addition to the creative brilliance of Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Moscovitch, this series was delivered by a wealth of Indigenous talent both in front of and behind the camera.”

“LITTLE BIRD is a crucial story that requires sensitivity and boldness to shed light on a piece of history that is not widely known. We are proud to collaborate with PBS to ensure that this story reaches audiences in the United States and receives the recognition it deserves,” stated Lisa Honig, Senior EVP Distribution North America, Fremantle.

Led by an Indigenous inventive group, LITTLE BIRD is developed by showrunner, Jennifer Podemski and Rezolution Photos, and created by Podemski and head author Hannah Moscovitch. The inventive group contains administrators Zoe Hopkins and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and was written by Hopkins and Moscovitch. The sequence is govt produced by Christina Fon, Ernest Webb, Catherine Bainbridge, Linda Ludwick (Rezolution Photos), Kim Todd, Nicholas Hirst (Unique Photos), Jennifer Podemski, Hannah Moscovitch, Zoe Hopkins, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Jeremy Podeswa, together with Christian Vesper and Dante Di Loreto (Fremantle). Producers are Tanya Brunel and Jessica Dunn (OP Little Fowl), Claire MacKinnon and Philippe Chabot Rezolution Photos) and Lori Lozinski and Ellen Rutter. Fremantle handles world gross sales.

For Bell Media, Alison Korogyi is Improvement Government; Rachel Goldstein-Couto is Head of Improvement, Unique Programming; Mitch Geddes is Manufacturing Government; Sarah Fowlie is Head of Manufacturing, Unique Programming; Carlyn Klebuc is Normal Supervisor, Unique Programming; Tory Jennings is Director of Content material, Crave; Justin Stockman is Vice-President, Content material Improvement & Programming; and Karine Moses is Senior Vice-President, Content material Improvement & Information, Bell Media and Vice Chair, Québec, Bell.

For APTN, Adam Garnet Jones is Director of TV Content material and Particular Occasions, Danelle Granger is Government accountable for Improvement and Scripted Content material, and Lisa Ducharme is Director of On-line Content material and Deliverables.

LITTLE BIRD and COMING HOME be a part of the slate of Indigenous programming PBS will broadcast this fall honoring Native American Heritage, together with THE AMERICAN BUFFALO by Ken Burns premiering October 16, NEXT AT THE KENNEDY CENTER “Embracing Duality: Modern Indigenous Cultures” premiering October 20 and NATIVE AMERICA SEASON TWO premiering October 24 (test native listings). All applications will proceed to stream on PBS.org, and the PBS app all through Native American Heritage Month in November.