EXCLUSIVE: Justin Ducharme began production on the beginnings SeventeenTurning around the life of three Aboriginal sex workers in Vancouver.
The production has also unveiled its native bournating distribution featuring Nizhonniya Austin (The curse), Taio Gelinas (Avatar: the last banking, beans), Kieieiou Hans (Seeds, alice darling, booking dogs), Shannon Baker (Crown bones) and a newcomer, singer, model and human rights defender Aalayna.
During seventeen hours, the film follows three Aboriginal sex workers whose life is crossed by chance, the relationship and the shared experience of family and colonial displacement.
The writer, filmmaker and conservative Ducharme, who is from the Métis community of Saint-Ambroise on the territory of Treaty 1, explained his own experiences for the scenario.
“I am very excited to be shifted and work on Seventeen With such an incredible casting and crew. This project has long been in development with the support and inclusion of my community of urban Aboriginal parents and sex workers located here in these non -salted coast territories, “said Ducharme.
The director refers to territories inhabited by the Aboriginal coast Salish the Salish peoples for thousands of years and claimed by the British crown at the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century without their permission, which includes land on which Vancouver is now built.
“As an experiential sex worker myself, my narration has aimed to capture the power that occurs in the intersections of native sexual sovereignty and chosen family relationships, Seventeen is an extension of these thoughts and I can’t wait to share it with the public. »»
Ducharme previously made waves with short films Positions And The dancer, Who has been screened in festivals such as Imaginenative, Asinabka, Bfi Flare, Outfest Fusion, Nfla, Seattle Queer Film Fest and more.
He was co-series, director and producer of the indigenous queer web series CLOSEwhich was created at Imaginenative and was supported through their program of imaginative origin.
Sfrom was developed with the support of the native cinema laboratory of the Institut de Sundance 2022, the Laboratory of filmmaker 2022 of TIFF and the Tiff 2024 TIFF Every Story accelerator.
The functionality is produced by your Boy Productions and Experimental Forest Films, Ducharme also producing alongside Tyler Hagan (The body remembers when the world has opened) And Olivia Marie Golosky (Pîvîwî) from experimental forest films.
The director of photography is Tucker Anderson and Branton Olfert is the composer.
Renae Morrison (X-Files, north of 60), Joel Oulette (Can I get a witness, Nancy Drew), Umar Farooq Khan (The night agent), Mathias Retamal (Firefly Lane) and Ray G. Thunderchild (Night raiders).
Experimental Forest Films is an award -winning production company engaged in socially relevant stories, the credits of which include Tiff titles Never stable, never yet, sea herbaries until the branches look at.
Its 2019 production The body remembers when the world has opened won the Toronto Film Critics Association Association Best Canadian Film Award (2020) and was recovered for the distribution by the release of Ava Duvernay.
Seventeen is being filmed is possible with the support of Telefilm Canada, the Office of the Aboriginal screen, CMF, Vortex media and Bell / Crave media.
