Outer Range actor Tamara Podemski, Dana Solomon and Melanie Bray star alongside writer-director Gail Maurice in Blood Lines, an Indigenous drama that just wrapped production in northern Ontario.

Maurice, wrote, directed and produced her second feature. Her TV acting credits include Cardinal, Barkskins and Trickster. Her first feature, Rosie, which expanded on an earlier short film and of the same name, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival in 2022 and was named to TIFF’s annual year-end Canada’s Top Ten list that year, while also winning the Audience Choice Award at the ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2022.

In Blood Lines, Maurice plays Leonore, an estranged mother whose homecoming upends the life of Beatrice (Solomon), a headstrong Métis storyteller and grocery store clerk. Derica Lafrance plays Chani, an alluring woman who enters the lives of Beatrice and Leonore, while Podemski takes the role of Pehmee.

Set in the small Métis community of Wapamon Sipi,...