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Rhymes for Young Ghouls
It’s a tough life, but she’s making it work. That is, until the precarious balance of her world is threatened by her father’s return from prison and the theft of her drug money.
Part fable, part small-town drama, Rhymes for Young Ghouls is a richly imaginative and striking drama about growing up during a very dark time in Canada’s treatment of Indigenous people.
“A savvy [Indigenous] genre film with a strong, beautiful and ingenious heroine whose courage helps right an injustice.” — Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail
Director
Jeff Barnaby (Mi’qmaw)
Barnaby’s films paint an urgent and unflinching portrait of Indigenous life and culture. His shorts include the Genie Nominated File Under Miscellaneous, the Jutra nominee The Colony and the Sundance selection From Cherry English. He also directed the feature films Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Blood Quantum, which both premiered at TIFF and won over 13 awards collectively. Following his death from cancer in 2022, imagineNATIVE launched the Jeff Barnaby Grant, a program to support new works by emerging Indigenous filmmakers, and he was named as a posthumous recipient of the Board of Directors Tribute Award at the CSAs in 2024.
Writer
Jeff Barnaby (Mi’qmaw)
Cast
Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (Mohawk), Glen Gould (Mi’qmaw), Brandon Oakes (Mohawk), Roseanne Supernault (Cree/Métis)
Producers
Aisling Chin-Yee, John Christou, Justine Whyte
Genres
Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Interests
BIPOC Stories, Indigenous Filmmaker
Original Language
English
Canadian Distributor
eOne
