White Owl Film Studios celebrates National Canadian Film Day – Anishinabek News

April 15, 2025

WAHNAPITAE — White Owl Film Studios in Wahnapitae First Nation plans to feature a film narrated by Indigenous actor Adam Beach as part of its celebration for National Canadian Film Day on April 16. Launched in 2014, National Canadian Film Day is a nationwide initiative presented by Reel Canada to spotlight Canadian films, voices, and creative talent.

“We are showing a French, English, and Indigenous film called The Road to Tophet that was shot in Chapleau in collaboration with the Chapleau Cree First Nation,” says Alex Green, public relations and acquisitions manager at White Owl Film Studios and an actor, producer, and film technician who is originally from Chapleau and now lives in Sudbury. “We have Adam Beach as our storyteller, and the characters in the film are a French Canadian and an English Canadian.”

The Road to Tophet, which was released in 2014 with a main cast of Beach, Green, and Samuel Thivierge, was directed by Steve Schmidt and written by Green, Schmidt, and Jeremy Beal.

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