Bell Media Announces Original Programming Orders for 2021/22 Season
LITTLE BIRD is a premium, six-part limited dramatic series about an Indigenous woman on a journey to find her birth family and uncover the hidden truth of her past. Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Jewish family at the age of five, becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig 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, where she begins to unravel the mystery behind her adoption, forcing her to question everything she believed to be true. When she discovers that she was one of the generation of children forcibly apprehended by the Canadian government through a policy, later coined The 60s Scoop, Bezhig’s pursuit to reconnect her family intensifies. This groundbreaking new series explores themes of trauma and loss while reminding us of the power and resilience of the human spirit, holding a mirror up to who we are and who we hope to become. Bell Media is in partnership with APTN for LITTLE BIRD. The series will launch simultaneously on Crave and APTN lumi. Further details to be announced. Created by Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Moscovitch. Directors include Zoe Hopkins. Executive producers are Podemski, Moskovitch, and Jeremy Podeswa. Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, and Ernest Webb serve as executive producers for Rezolution Pictures, and Kim Todd and Nicholas Hirst serve as executive producers for Original Pictures. (Rezolution Pictures, Original Pictures)