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[02/05/21 - 10:02 AM]
Higher Ground Productions Announces New Slate of Netflix Projects
The content encompasses a range of fiction, non-fiction and kids & family across both series and feature films.







FIREKEEPER'S DAUGHTER (NETFLIX)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
2/5/21
STATUS:
previously in development (2021-2022 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to series
DESCRIPTION:
(from Netflix's press release, February 2021) Firekeeper's Daughter is a series based on the debut novel by Angeline Boulley, set to publish in Spring 2021 by Henry Holt & Co. The novel is a YA thriller that follows an 18-year-old Native girl as she reluctantly goes undercover in a police investigation on her Ojibwe reservation. Mickey Fisher (Reverie, Extant) will serve as showrunner, and will co-write with Wenonah Wilms (Horsehead Girls) who will also serve as an executive producer. Like author Boulley, Wilms is from the Ojibwe tribe (Sault Ste. Marie and Red Cliff bands, respectively) and will bring her lived experiences to this series.
CREW INFORMATION:
· Ada Chiaghana as EP
· Alex Pitz as EP
· Angeline Boulley as BOOK
· Barack Obama as EP
· Michelle Obama as EP
· Mickey Fisher as CRTR/EP
· Priya Swaminathan as EP
· Tonia Davis as EP
· Wenonah Wilms as CRTR/EP
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Higher Ground Productions