![]() This dynamic duo faced many challenges bringing this story to life. So it’s fitting that family has helped her interpret the story in the medium of film - her sister, Carla Robinson, is the executive producer on the film. “The very first incarnations of Monkey Beach were a series of stories that Mom told me when I was a kid,” she said. The genesis of the story comes from Robinson’s family. ![]() “Concentrate on nothing and everything at the same time." “Contacting the dead: lesson one,” she says. The trailer begins with an ominous plunge into water, and the voice of the main character: Monkey Beach, which was her first novel, is the story of a young woman struggling with her supernatural abilities in the wake of her brother disappearing at sea. Robinson is a novelist and short story writer from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations who has been lauded for her writing both in Canada and internationally. “I'm still stunned that it's in the world, that it's going out there,” Robinson told CTV News. That’s how long it took to bring Eden Robinson’s award-winning novel, Monkey Beach, to the big screen. This fall, a distinctly Indigenous story will be hitting theatres - a feature film 20 years in the making. ![]()
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