About The Last Bastard
HISTORY BEHIND THE STORY:
From the late 1960’s through the 1980’s women were returning to work in droves and the new trend of the dual income family, who were still producing 2.1 kids, had moved away from their support systems, sprouting the need for a place care for their preschool children. What sprung up were unregulated day-cares, most of which were run by families people trusted from ‘the neighbourhood’.
SYNOPSIS:
Abigail Tate experiences more in one day at the Reynolds, then the sum of her four years of her young life.
Set in the 1970’s, this fantasy drama shows the impact of the new dual income family unit and touches on the destruction of the aboriginal family during the “scoop” period.
The Last Bastard hits on some of the mishandling children endured in before better social structures were in place to protect children and unauthorized adoptions were stopped.
Partially funded by the Film and Video Arts grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
