Blue Ant International acquires global rights to Spirit to Soar

TORONTO — Canada-based global distribution group Blue Ant International announced today it has acquired the international licensing rights to Spirit to Soar, a one-hour documentary inspired by Tanya Talaga’s award-winning book, Seven Fallen Fathers, which brought attention to the uninvestigated deaths of seven Indigenous high school students in northern Ontario between 2000 and 2011. The documentary looks at how the book came to Talaga (above), an Anishinaabe storyteller and journalist, when she travelled to Thunder Bay on a federal election assignment and discovered the story of the seven Indigenous youth who had either died or gone missing. “This documentary examines...