Finding Mary March (movie)

Finding Mary March (movie)

  • Production country: Canada
  • Producer: Ken Pittman
  • Production companies: NIFCO
  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Budget: $987,000
  • Release date: 8/31/1988
  • Run time: 100 min.

Movie description

This film discusses the search for the last remains of Demasduit (Mary March), one of the last of the Indigenous Beothuk people, set in the Red Indian Lake area of Central Newfoundland. A young girl, Bernadette Buchans, believes that she is related to Mary March. Throughout the whole film, Bernadette and her father Ted are searching for the grave of her mother. An archaeologist/ photographer, Nancy George, accompanies them and she also believes that she has family connections to the Beothuks.

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Rick Boland

Rick Boland

Role(s): Ted Buchans

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Jacinta Cormier

Jacinta Cormier

Role(s): Mary March

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John Budden

John Budden

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Yvon Joe

Yvon Joe

Role(s): Mi'kmaw boy

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Austin Davis

Austin Davis

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