Jennifer Podemski
Biography: Jennifer Podemski is an award winning Film and Television Producer and Actor born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Of mixed First Nations and Israeli descent, Jennifer began her acting career as a teen. Her career blossomed when she was cast as Pique in CBC's The Diviners followed by a starring role in Bruce McDonald's Dance Me Outside. As her career in front of the camera exploded, Jennifer began to notice the inequity behind the lens. Although all of the roles she was awarded as actor were First Nations characters, she rarely, if ever, saw any First Nations writers, producers or directors. By 25, with a solid career under her belt, Jennifer opened her first production company, Big Soul Productions (BSP) with fellow burgeoning producer Laura Milliken. BSP became the first Aboriginal owned and operated, full service production company in Canada, producing hundreds of hours of television including three seasons of the award winning Dramatic Series Moccasin Flats for Showcase and APTN. In 2005, Jennifer branched out on her own and founded Redcloud Studios, Inc. Although Jennifer has maintained a successful career as an actor, with roles in Degrassi, Republic of Doyle, Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz and Jimmy P alongside Benicio Del Toro, she is most proud of her starring role in her own film Empire of Dirt for which she was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as well as Best Feature Film for her work as producer. Empire of Dirt premiered at TIFF 2014 and continued to a theatrical release in Canada and traveled the world on the film festival circuit. Jennifer is also the creator and producer of APTN's famed paranormal series The Other Side, currently shooting it's second season; in her 9th year as Co-Executive Producer and Creative Director of the Indspire Awards (Global, APTN) for which she was nominated for Best Lifestyle Television Show at the 2014 CSA's. More recently, Jennifer can be seen as Dr. Crowshoe on the award winning drama series Blackstone; HBO's Sensitive Skin with Kim Catrall and in FireSong, written and directed by Adam Garnett Jones. A storyteller behind and in front of the camera, Jennifer still makes time for training aboriginal youth in film and tv, mentoring and holding self esteem workshops across the US and Canada.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1974
Deathday: N/A
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Jimmy P.
2013-09-11
Jimmy P.
Overview: At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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The Diviners
1993-01-03
The Diviners
Overview: Morag Gunn, a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of turbulence with Jules. While she and Jules have known each other since childhood, he is no rock of stability. In addition, he is white, while she is part Native American, so the teenage Morag experienced racism he can only imagine. Even after they have a daughter, she struggles against the emptiness within her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-03
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Heritage Minutes: Tommy Prince
2005-01-01
Heritage Minutes: Tommy Prince
Overview: A eulogy is given for Tommy Prince, Canada’s most-decorated Indigenous war veteran.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Take This Waltz
2011-11-25
Take This Waltz
Overview: Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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Dance Me Outside
1995-03-10
Dance Me Outside
Overview: Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-10
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Empire of Dirt
2013-11-22
Empire of Dirt
Overview: Like many Native families, Lena Mahikan grew up in the cycle of abuse. Her father, a residential school survivor, was an alcoholic until he killed himself when Lena was 10. Her mother, only 14 years her senior, turned to the slots. By the time Lena was 15, she was pregnant and, before giving birth, was kicked to the curb by her mom. The cycle continues and Lena is now watching helplessly as her own daughter, Peeka, spirals out of control, landing herself in the hospital following a drug overdose. As a final attempt at survival, Lena decides to return home and face her own mother and a past she’s desperate to escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-22
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Rehab
Rehab
Overview: A First Nations man takes a famous actor back to the reserve to help him cope with his drug addiction.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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Redlights
2023-09-20
Redlights
Overview: An evening outing takes a dangerous turn for two Indigenous women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-20
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Distant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery
2005-01-01
Distant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery
Overview: Teevee Tenia has a plan - he intends to persuade Lynx River to dump the RCMP and establish an all Dene Police Force. But Corporal Michelle Kenidi is concerned: will a Dene Police Force in Lynx River be answerable to Canadian law, or to Teevee? When an elderly tourist is found beaten to death, Michelle’s concerns deepen as her suspicions fall upon Teevee’s friend, Matthew Fowler. As Michelle pursues the investigation, painful events from the past come alive. For the community of Lynx River, the investigation holds the town’s very future at stake.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Don't Think Twice
1999-09-17
Don't Think Twice
Overview: A black comedy, Don't Think Twice is a disturbing and profound examination of the morals of a man forced to choose between lover and family.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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Bliss - Erotische Versuchungen
2002-10-16
Bliss - Erotische Versuchungen
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-10-16
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Fire Song
2015-09-13
Fire Song
Overview: Shane, a gay Anishnabe teenager in Northern Ontario, is struggling to support his family in the aftermath of his sister's suicide. If he fails, he will be forced to choose between his family's home and his own future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-13
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Fugitive Pieces
2007-09-06
Fugitive Pieces
Overview: A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Pavane
2008-09-28
Pavane
Overview: Phil and Jay share more than a family bond - failed careers, failed relationships, bottomless drinks, and a debilitating memory of a shocking encounter in a ravine one childhood day. The pretext of being strangers, the darkly comic ritual that the broken, non-functioning brothers perform in an attempt to get at their pain, can't cover the palpable connection between them, nor their deeply felt desire to find redemption. An accomplished pianist, Jay is working as a piano player in a lounge. Mike, one of the bar's patrons, makes a request for Jay to play Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infant defunte", which Jay refuses. This act masks an underlying secret both men share about their childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-28
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Aberdeen
2024-09-06
Aberdeen
Overview: An idyllic childhood with her mooshum and kookum, or grandparents, in her community of Peguis First Nation dissipates as Aberdeen’s hard-partying and absentee parents distances her from that haven. Now an adult, sleeping on public benches, Winnipeg-based Aberdeen is in survival mode. The last remaining stable parts of her life begin slipping away — her reliable brother Boyd is ill and gives up Aberdeen’s grandkids to the foster care system. Then she loses her ID.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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Mouthpiece
2019-04-04
Mouthpiece
Overview: Based on a stage play of the same name by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, the story follows Cassandra, who is portrayed by the two women, expressing the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman's head, during a 48-hour period as she tries to organize the affairs for her mother's funeral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-04
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Akilla's Escape
2021-06-11
Akilla's Escape
Overview: In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-11
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Bogus
1996-09-06
Bogus
Overview: Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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The Robber Bride
2007-03-03
The Robber Bride
Overview: Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-03
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The Light Before the Sun
2024-10-26
The Light Before the Sun
Overview: A famous self-help guru returns from a book tour to a house suddenly filled with an estranged friend. The two friends then spiral into a drug-induced contemplation of the human condition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-26
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Reel Women Seen
2017-05-25
Reel Women Seen
Overview: Tells the story of the realities faced by women in the film and TV industry yet simultaneously depicts the necessary, possible and achievable ways to transform them. The story is set in common TV backdrops – from a police procedural to a sitcom (complete with laugh track), to a medical drama, to a webisode series.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-25
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