Little Bird

DRAMATIC SERIES 🔴6x60MIN 🔴ENGLISH 🔴 FRENCH

A story of loss, truth & the power of resilience

A premium, six-part limited dramatic series, Little Bird is about an Indigenous woman on a journey to find her birth family and uncover the hidden truth of her past.

Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Jewish family at the age of five, being stripped of her identity and becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and to fill in the missing pieces. Her quest lands her in the Canadian prairies where she discovers that she was one of the generations of children forcibly apprehended by the Canadian government through a policy, later coined the #60sScoop.

This is a story with global importance that will capture hearts and minds of all people regardless of their race, religion, or culture—being told from the front lines of narrative activism, unearthing the truth behind a dark history and present reality for Indigenous children and families all over the world. Audiences will experience Indigenous love and joy in authentically uplifting us on an otherwise emotional journey about the loss of identity and culture

executive producer
Ernest Webb

CO-CREATOR & SHOWRUNNER
JENNIFER PODEMSKI

CO-CREATOR
executive producer & head writer
Hannah Moscovitch

writer & DIRECTOR
ZOE HOPKINS

WRITER & DIRECTOR
Elle-Maija Tailfeathers

Watch the Indigeous-led, riveting #LittleBirdSeries on @cravecanada @aptnlumi @pbs & @ctv.

Ernest Webb EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

“What I hope people can take from Little Bird is that we have stories to tell, things to say, teachings to pass on, voices that need to be heard. We’re coming into these producer roles, writer roles, and actor roles, and then you see all of these young people and that makes my heart soar. There’s a lot of chapters that still need to be told. I would hope that Little Bird plays that role to tell that story in terms of the 60’s Scoop.”
Zoe Hopkins, WRITER and DIRECTOR of episodes 4-6.

“Canada is undergoing a reckoning right now with some truths around residential schools, and the gruesome facts that we’re finding out right now in the public media. As Indigenous people we’ve always known these things, but right now it seems that Canada is willing to acknowledge these things as a society, as a public. Lots of people are learning this for the first time right now,”
Jennifer Podemski on bringing on Zoe Hopkins and Elle-Maija Tailfeathers as directors of Little Bird

“When I realized I had the agency to bring on only Indigenous women, it was one of the most epic moments of my life and career,”