Trouble in the Garden

Trouble in the Garden is a 2018 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Roz Owen.[1] The film stars Cara Gee as Raven McTavish, an Indigenous Canadian woman who was raised by a white adoptive family from whom she is now estranged; after being arrested at a protest against a residential development on traditional indigenous land, she is bailed out of jail by her brother Colin (Jon Cor), a real estate developer involved in the very housing development she was protesting.[2]

Trouble in the Garden
Directed byRoz Owen
Written byRoz Owen
Produced byJennifer Mesich
StarringCara Gee
Jon Cor
Fiona Reid
Frank Moore
CinematographyMichael Caterina
Edited byMichael Lane
Michelle Szemberg
Production
company
White Eagle Entertainment
Release date
  • September 19, 2018 (2018-09-19) (Cinéfest)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The cast also includes Fiona Reid and Frank Moore as their parents Lillian and Rob, as well as Kelly Van der Burg, Wesley French, Persephone Koty, Michaela Washburn, Caleb Marshall, Kristin Shepherd, Marcus Dias and Chris Farquhar in supporting roles.

Raven Sinclair, a prominent academic and Sixties Scoop activist, was a consultant and executive producer on the film.[3]

The film premiered at the 2018 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival,[4] before going into commercial release in 2019.[1]

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