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‘Little Bird’ Star Darla Contois and ‘The Order’s’ Morgan Holmstrom Join Indigenous Canadian Horror Feature ‘Ancestral Beasts’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Canadian Screen Award winner Darla Contis joins psychological horror film 'Ancestral Beasts,' exploring trauma and healing in rural Canada.
The film stars Morgan Holmstrom(“Day of the Dead”), Darla Contois — fresh off her Canadian Screen Award win for best actress in “Little Bird” — and Asivak Koostachin (“Portraits from a Fire”). Set in the haunting landscape of rural Canada, “Ancestral Beasts” explores the terrifying idea: what if a severe mental health disorder took on a physical form—a creature lurking in the shadows? “’Ancestral Beasts’ is an original story based on my own personal experience as the son of an Indigenous [Red River Métis] woman who was taken from her family as a child to be raised in abusive foster care during a dark time in Canadian history known as the 60s Scoop,” he told Variety.
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