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Wildhood  2021
Director:  Bretten Hannam
Producer:
  Julie Baldwin, Brettan Hannam and Gharrett Patrick Paon
Art Director:
  Danielle Bowman and Jackson Noble
Editor:
  Shaun Rykiss
Music:
  Neil Haverty
Screenplay:
  Bretten Hannam
Director of Photography:
  Guy Godfree
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Cast:
spacer1 Phillip Lewitski
spacer1 Avery Winters-Anthony
spacer1 Joshua Odjick
spacer1 Michael Greyeyes
spacer1 Steve Lund
spacer1 Joel Thomas Hynes
spacer1 Savonna Spracklin
spacer1 Jordan Poole
spacer1 Callum Dunphy
spacer1 Bailey Maughan
spacer1 Ursula Calder
spacer1 Mary-Colin Chisholm
spacer1 Phillip Lewitski spacer1 Avery Winters-Anthony spacer1 Joshua Odjick
spacer1 Michael Greyeyes spacer1 Steve Lund spacer1 Joel Thomas Hynes
spacer1 Savonna Spracklin spacer1 Jordan Poole spacer1 Callum Dunphy
spacer1 Bailey Maughan spacer1 Ursula Calder spacer1 Mary-Colin Chisholm
spacer1 Phillip Lewitski spacer1 Avery Winters-Anthony
spacer1 Joshua Odjick spacer1 Michael Greyeyes
spacer1 Steve Lund spacer1 Joel Thomas Hynes
spacer1 Savonna Spracklin spacer1 Jordan Poole
spacer1 Callum Dunphy spacer1 Bailey Maughan
spacer1 Ursula Calder spacer1 Mary-Colin Chisholm

Synopsis:
Two-spirit Mi’kmaw teenager Link (Phillip Lewitski) is just discovering – and asserting – his sexuality when his already volatile home life goes off the rails. His abusive father explodes after the cops bust Link and his half-brother Travis (Avery Winters-Anthony) for stealing scrap metal. When he finds out that his supposedly dead mother may be alive, Link flees with Travis in tow. Sparks fly in a chance encounter with teen drifter Pasmay (Joshua Odjick), who shares Link’s Indigenous roots and offers to help find his mother – but will Link’s (well-founded) mistrust of people ruin his potential new relationship and the group’s mission?

Riffing on the road-movie genre, director Bretten Hannam charts Link’s growing self-awareness, which is deeply connected to the (re)discovery of his heritage. It’s been a while since a movie has fully relished in the bucolic Eastern Canada countryside. The landscape (Annapolis Valley in traditional Mi’kmaq territory) offers succour to Link and Travis – and opens them up to a very different world. Wildhood will elicit comparisons to recent Canadian titles like Firecrackers and Sleeping Giant, but the protagonists in those films were constrained by their age and limited choices. While Link and Travis aren’t free from danger, heartbreak, or disappointment, their lives are increasingly defined by possibility.

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