Thursday July 18, 9:00 – 11:00pm > Rosie by Gail Maurice, Screening, Hanover Drive-In

ROSIE, a film by Gail Maurice

A film about family, love, and misfits, ROSIE tells the story of a young, orphaned, Indigenous girl who is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart Aunty Fred (Frédérique). Rosie is thrust into the fringes of 1980’s Montréal into the care of Fred, who just lost her job, is on the verge of eviction, and who looks and sounds nothing like her. Fred, an artist who creates art from found and discarded objects or other peoples’ trash, introduces Rosie to her two best friends Flo and Mo, glamorous human beings who refuse to be confined by gender. In the end, Rosie transforms the lives of these colourful characters and finds love, acceptance, and a true HOME with her new chosen family of glittering outsiders.

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Gail Maurice -Writer/Director/Producer- is a fluent Cree/Michif-speaking actor and an award-winning independent filmmaker and Arts Laureate. She’s an alumnus of the prestigious Women in the Director’s Chair. She is a recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Indigenous Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and she was selected for the 2020 Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative. Her film ASSINI won the audience choice award at the Dawson City International Film Festival, and was nominated for four Golden Sheafs at the Yorkton Film Festival. Her films have screened at Sundance, Traverse City Film Festival, the Smithsonian Institution, ImagineNATIVE, and have also aired on CBC, APTN and Air Canada’s Enroute, to name a few. ROSIE is her feature debut and was supported by the ImagineNATIVE institute’s inaugural screenwriting lab. Gail is passionate about telling stories with strong female Indigenous leads.

As an actor, Gail is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a television series for TRICKSTER and, most recently, for Best Supporting Actress in a feature film for her role in the Danis Goulet/Taiki Waititi production NIGHT RAIDERS (a role she also translated). She portrayed Meetos in the feature film QUÉBEXIT, and also translated/co-wrote the script.

It won Best Screenplay at the Whistler Film Festival 2020. Gail portrayed Inez in FALLS AROUND HER, Annabelle Bearclaw in THE INCREDIBLE 25TH YEAR OF MITZI BEARCLAW, and Coyote in THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN.