Jennifer Podemski

Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian ...

An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s hard-partying ...

Shane, a gay Anishnabe teenager in Northern Ontario, is struggling to support his family in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide. If he ...

Lena flees to her rural hometown after her 13-year-old daughter’s overdose attracts the attention of child services. She reunites with her ...