Moccasin Flats series premieres

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A new six-part television series filmed in Regina and featuring a predominantly Aboriginal cast will have its premiere on APTN on Nov. 10.

Moccasin Flats is being billed as Canada's first dramatic television series to be created, written, produced, performed and controlled by Aboriginal people. The show, a gritty portrayal of life in Moccasin Flats, a neighbourhood in North Central Regina, was created by Jennifer Podemski and Laura J. Milliken of Big Soul Productions as a follow up to the success of their film by the same name.

Moccasin Flats, the film, was shot in Regina in the summer of 2002, with 40 local Aboriginal youth as cast and crew on the project. The film was screened at a number of film festivals across Canada and the United States to critical acclaim.

Moccasin Flats the series went into production in July of this year, with a number of well-known Aboriginal actors among its cast, including Tantoo Cardinal, Gordon Tootoosis and Michelle Thrush, who perform alongside newer talent from the North Central area and from neighbouring First Nations.

The series will air Mondays and Sundays on APTN.