Meadowlarks
Tasha Hubbard (Cree) • 1h 31m • 2025 • Canada • English & French, with Eng. subtitles
Inspired by her own acclaimed documentary Birth of a Family, Tasha Hubbard’s Meadowlarks tells the story of four Cree siblings, separated since childhood and now in their fifties, who agree to meet for the first time over a holiday weekend in Banff. Without the usual markers of familiarity, or a shared sense of cultural belonging, Anthony (Michael Greyeyes), Connie (Carmen Moore), Marianne (Alex Rice) and Gwen (Michelle Thrush) discover unexpected moments of joyous synchronicity, conflict, and connection.
With further guidance from the warmth of a newly discovered community, a fledgling family is invited to heal. Excited and curious, but also scarred and afraid of rejection, the Meadowlark siblings must contend with where they have been, and who they will become, especially to one another.
Director Biography: Tasha Hubbard
Tasha Hubbard is an award-winning filmmaker from Peepeekisis First Nation. Hubbard's Canadian Screen Award-winning nipawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up opened Hot Docs in 2019, and was the first-ever Indigenous-directed film to do so. The film took home the festival's Best Canadian Feature prize and screened theatrically across Canada and at festivals around the world, with Hubbard winning the DGC Discovery Award for her direction and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary.
With her acclaimed Birth of a Family, Hubbard sensitively parsed the legacy of the Sixties Scoop: a practice which saw more than 20,000 Indigenous babies removed from their birth families. Hubbard is also an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. Her research and advocacy in support of Indigenous efforts to return the buffalo to the lands was the focus of her previous documentary feature, Singing Back The Buffalo, which premiered in 2024.
