| Rosie | |
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| Directed by | Gail Maurice |
| Written by | Gail Maurice |
| Produced by | Gail Maurice Jamie Manning |
| Starring | Keris Hope Hill Melanie Bray Constant Bernard Alex Trahan |
| Cinematography | Celiana Cárdenas |
| Edited by | Shaun Rykiss |
Production companies | Assini Productions Night Market |
| Distributed by | Photon Films |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | English French Cree |
Rosie is a 2022 Canadian comedy-drama film, written, produced, and directed by Gail Maurice.[1] Maurice's feature directorial debut and an expansion of her 2018 short film of the same name,[2] the film centres on Rosie (Keris Hope Hill), a young First Nations girl who is sent to live with her aunt Frédérique (Melanie Bray) in Montreal after her mother's death, and learns the value of rebuilding chosen family from Fred and her two-spirit friends Flo (Constant Bernard) and Mo (Alex Trahan).[3]
The cast also includes Josée Young, Brandon Oakes, Jocelyne Zucco, Arlen Aguayo-Stewart, Jean Pearson, Tony De Santis, Xavier Yuvens, Pierre Simpson, Ron Lea, Domenico Fiore, Joseph Claude Dubois, Mike Ross, Matt Raffy and David Thompson.
The film was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, in 2021.[2]
It premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022.[4] It was subsequently selected as the closing film of the 2022 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.[5]