Brandon Oakes

Based on the Giller Award-winning novel of the same name by Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce is a story of identity and survival. The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.

Red Crow Mi'gMaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna's. 15-year-old Aila sells enough dope to pay her way out of the school, but when her drug money is stolen, her only options are to run or fight... and Mi'gMaq don't run.

When a fiercely independent equestrian finds herself ranch-sitting for a friend while caring for her injured horse over Christmas, she clashes with a brooding veteran.

The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve, except for its Indigenous inhabitants, who are strangely immune to the plague.

In this tale of star-crossed lovers inspired by true events, two members of the Chemehuevi tribe run off together, sparking a massive manhunt.