(March 6, 2024) - LITTLE BIRD, the critically acclaimed, award-winning series, picked up 19 nominations at today’s announcement of the Canadian Screen Awards, the most lauded series in the Television category. The Canadian Screen Awards will be presented to winners at several events May 28-31 and a special  broadcast scheduled for Friday, May 31 on CBC and CBC Gem, hosted by comedian Mae Martin.

Led by an Indigenous creative team, LITTLE BIRD was co-created by showrunner Jennifer Podemski (Anishinaabe) and head writer Hannah Moscovitch. The creative team includes directors Zoe Hopkins (Heiltsuk & Mohawk) and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Blackfoot/Sámi) and was written by Hannah Moscovitch, Zoe Hopkins, Shannon Masters (Cree Métis) and Darrell Dennis (Secwepemc).

LITTLE BIRD is a six-part, one hour limited drama series produced by Rezolution Pictures and OP Little Bird, for Canadian broadcasters Crave and APTN. The series is distributed by Fremantle and licensed to both PBS in the US and ARTE in Europe. It explores universal themes of resilience in the face of trauma and loss. Bezhig Little Bird is removed from her home in Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan and adopted into a Montreal Jewish family at the age of five, becoming Esther Rosenblum (Darla Contois). Now in her twenties, she longs for the family she lost and is willing to sacrifice everything to find them. Her quest lands her in the Canadian prairies, worlds apart from everything she knows. As she begins to track down her siblings, she unravels the mystery behind her adoption, and discovers that her apprehension was part of a racist government policy now known as the Sixties Scoop.

In 2023 LITTLE BIRD won the MIPCOM Cannes Diversify TV award, in the Representation of Race and Ethnicity – Scripted category, the Audience Award at Séries Mania in Lille, France, and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & team won the DGC Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series. The critically-acclaimed, award-winning TV series was also chosen as one of the best shows of 2023 by several important publications, including Best Show of the Year by Playback.

LITTLE BIRD was nominated for the following Canadian Screen Awards. To view all categories the show has been nominated in, visit academy.ca/nominees.

 

Best Drama Series

Little Bird -  Love is all Around, Bineshi Kwe

Crave, APTN

Produced by: Rezolution Pictures & OP Little Bird

 

Executive Producers: Ernest Webb, Catherine Bainbridge, Linda Ludwick, Kim Todd, Nicholas Hirst, Christina Fon, Jeremy Podeswa, Jennifer Podemski, Hannah Moscovitch, Zoe Hopkins and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers with Christian Vesper and Dante Di Loreto

 

Producers: Tanya Brunel, Jessica Dunn, Claire MacKinnon, Philippe Chabot, Lori Lozinski, Ellen Rutter

 

Best Direction, Drama Series

Little Bird - Love is all Around

Crave, APTN

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

 

Best Direction, Drama Series

Little Bird – Bineshi Kwe

Crave, APTN

Zoe Hopkins

 

Best Lead Performer, Drama Series

Little Bird – Burning Down the House

Crave, APTN

Darla Contois

 

Best Lead Performer, Drama Series

Little Bird – So Put Together

Crave, APTN

Ellyn Jade

 

Best Guest Performance, Drama Series

Little Bird – The Land That Takes You, Bineshi Kwe

Crave, APTN

Imajyn Cardinal

 

Best Supporting Performer, Drama

Little Bird – Braeden Clarke

Crave, APTN

 

Best Ensemble Performance, Drama

Little Bird – Darla Contois, Ellyn Jade, Osawa Muskwa, Lisa Edelstein, Michelle Thrush, Braeden Clarke, Imajyn Cardinal, Joshua Odjick

Crave, APTN

 

Best Picture Editing, Drama

Little Bird – "Burning Down the House"

Crave, APTN

Maxime Lahaie-Denis

 

Best Picture Editing, Drama

Little Bird – "The Land that Takes You"

Crave, APTN

Justin Lachance

 

Best Sound, Fiction

Little Bird –"Love is all Around"

Crave, APTN

Paul Lucien Col, Louis Gignac, Evelio Manfred Gay Salinas, Claire Pochon, Anton Fischlin, Simon Meilleur, Éric Med Lagacé, Delphine Measroch

 

Best Production Design or Art Direction, Fiction

Little Bird –"Burning Down The House"

Crave, APTN

David Brisbin, Jon Van Winkle, Robert K. Laurie, C. Summer Holmes

 

Best Costume Design

Little Bird –"I Want My Mom"

Crave, APTN

Charity Gadica

 

Best Achievement in Make-Up

Little Bird –"Bineshi Kwe"

Crave, APTN

Nina McArthur, Megan Stark, Kelly Harmon

 

Best Photography, Drama

Little Bird –"I Want My Mom"

Crave, APTN

Claudine Sauvé

 

Best Photography, Drama

Little Bird –"So Put Together"

Crave, APTN

Guy Godfree

 

Best Achievement in Hair

Crave, APTN

Little Bird - Pina Robinson

 

Best Achievement in Casting, Fiction

Crave, APTN

Little Bird - Lisa Parasyn, Carmen Kotyk

 

Barbara Sears Award for Best Visual Research

Little Bird – "Love is all Around"

Crave, APTN

Joanna S. Anaquod, Jennifer Podemski, Na’kuset, Raven Sinclair, Sharon Anaquod, Charity Gadica

 

About Rezolution Pictures

Rezolution Pictures is an award-winning production company that’s changing the narrative when it comes to diversity and representation in the entertainment landscape. They have established original Indigenous content within mainstream media and sold programming around the world in major markets to broadcasters including GEM, APTN, Superchannel, OMNI, TVO, CBC, RDI, ARTV, Télé-Québec, FNX, Vision Maker and internationally with PBS, Peacock +, ARTE. The Emmy-nominated Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World has won awards at Sundance, Hot Docs and the Canadian Screen Awards, the critically-acclaimed, award-winning TV series Little Bird has been chosen one of the best shows of 2023 by several important publications and the Gemini- and Peabody-winning Reel Injun has been inducted into the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Museum.

 

About OP Little Bird

OP Little Bird, is a Winnipeg-based company, majority-owned by Manitoba independent producer Tanya Brunel, Métis from the Red River region. The other shareholders are Original Pictures Manitoba, a company controlled by producer Jessica Dunn and Original Pictures Inc. a boutique production company with offices in Winnipeg, Toronto and Calgary, founded by its president/executive producer Kim Todd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Fargo, and Brave New World). Kim is the winner of multiple awards including an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Critics Choice Award, a Peabody, PGA award, and several Geminis (a predecessor of the Canadian Screen Awards).

 

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