Film company to shoot film scenes on Six Nations

A Hamilton based film company will shoot parts of a film on Six Nations as early as this fall. Ryan Furlong, owner of Fenian Films in Hamilton and Chris Cowles, a Los Angeles and Hamilton based producer, visited Six Nations Elected Council’s (SNEC) General Council meeting on April 9 to seek approval to film parts of For the Love of Rose on the reserve and for guidance on cultural accuracy. “The film touches upon Indigenous characters and we want to get the tradition and cultural components right,” Furlong said. SNEC approved the request. The film is about a former champion boxer, Tom King, who has a wife and child to care for, but falls into poverty and has a sizable debt. He is offered a job, by a wealthy man,…

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