It was soon apparent to writer and director Marie Clements that a limited miniseries would not be enough to contain the multigenerational tale of an Indigenous family at the heart of her latest project, “Bones of Crows.”
The Vancouver-born Dene/Métis filmmaker says the sweeping story was initially envisioned as a four-part TV venture, but plans grew to a five-part miniseries, and then again to a five-part miniseries plus a feature film.
"This time we get to see the stories of her sister, the stories of her brother and her kids,” says Clements, who shot both versions at the same time. The largely Indigenous cast includes Graham Greene, Lorne Cardinal and a cameo by veteran documentary maker Alanis Obomsawin. "If I had a choice, I would have said, 'So we start at 16 and then we go in till I'm 70, right?' But no, my first day, it was a very, very terrible scene, very hard scene, very traumatic for me, very triggering and I remember thinking, 'Come on, guys. We can't figure out a better schedule?'”
"And then I remember Carla-Rae is such a hero, she came in very late, learned so much of the language…. I just said: Remember that I was in the war, so there's something about growing up in the '30s and having structure that's very different than a modern person today.”
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