04/07/2026
Coty Savard and I on Global News Edmonton with Daintre Christensen talking about the Gil Cardinal’s Foster Child and Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival.
Developed with the assistance of Elders, the film “Foster Child” by the late preeminent Metis filmmaker and Walk of Honour Inductee, Gil Cardinal was redeveloped with Cree Syllabic subtitles - the first film ever to have them. There will be a panel after the screening with the filmmakers, and the Elders who guided the project.
An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born in Edmonton to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary, he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. “Foster Child” is one of the great docs to come out of Canada and Dreamspeakers is honoured to welcome this new iteration home.
Saturday April 18th, 2026
7:00 PM
Landmark Cinemas 9 - Edmonton City Centre Mall
Panelists after the film: Elders Jerry & Jo-Ann Saddleback, Director Coner McNally and Producer Coty Savard
