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CBC has announced that new drama series The Trickster will premiere as part of its 2019-20 programming season.

The Trickster, adapted from the Son of a Trickster trilogy of books by award-winning author Eden Robinson (pictured left) and co-created by Michelle Latimer (NSI Drama Prize, pictured right) and Tony Elliott, is a darkly humorous coming-of-age story, a mash-up of dysfunctional family drama and supernatural thriller.

It marks the first time CBC has developed a TV show based on books by an Indigenous author.

The series follows Jared, an Indigenous teen struggling to keep his family above water when a mysterious stranger, Wade, blows into town and turns his already chaotic life inside out. And when weird things start happening, it becomes clear he’s also the mythic magical being the Trickster. What begins as an unnerving slow burn of strange events in Jared’s already-messy life crescendos to an epic clash of magic, monsters and mayhem.

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The 2019 Golden Sheaf Awards were handed out last weekend at the Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan and NSI alumni took home the following awards:

• Best of fest, Indigenous award, Multicultural award (under 30 minutes): Fast Horse (pictured) from director Alexandra Lazarowich (NSI IndigiDocs)

• Multicultural award (over 30 minutes), Documentary POV: STORYHIVE 100K project Finding Big Country from director Kathleen Jayme, producer Michael Grand

• Digital media: Biidaaban: First Light from director Lisa Jackson (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program)

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