A dramatic film with a strong Saskatchewan connection premiered over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival.

_Meadowlarks_ was inspired by its Cree director Tasha Hubbard's previous documentary,_ Birth of a Family_, which told the real-life story of a group of four Dene siblings who were born in Saskatchewan and taken from their mother during the Sixties Scoop.

Saskatoon journalist Betty Ann Adam, who is one of those siblings, conducted painstaking research to find and reconnect with her brother and two sisters after decades apart. She and Hubbard co-wrote _Birth of a Family, which_ centred around their first in-person reunion as a group. _R_eleased in 2017, the documentary earned multiple awards at film festivals.

[Betty Ann Adam, co-writer, associate producer and subje

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