Crave and APTN lumi original Little Bird has won the audience award at the 2023 Series Mania festival.

The 6 x 60-minute limited series, created by Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Moscovitch, had its world premiere at the Lille, France-based television festival last week as part of the International Panorama competition. While the series did not pick up any of the juried prizes, it walked away with the Audience Award, which is decided by the public.

Little Bird is produced by Montreal-based Rezolution Pictures and Winnipeg’s OP Little Bird, and follows the story of a young woman whose life was irrevocably changed by the Sixties Scoop, when Indigenous children were taken from their homes and put into Canada’s child welfare system. Fremantle is handling international distribution.

Podemski is the series showrunner, while Moscovitch is head writer. The two are also executive producers alongside Christina Fon, Ernest Webb, Catherine Bainbridge, and Linda Ludwick of Rezolution Pictures, Kim Todd and Nicholas Hirst of Original Pictures, Christian Vesper and Dante Di Loreto of Fremantle, and Jeremy Podeswa.

Series producers are Tanya Brunel and Jessica Dunn for OP Little Bird, Claire MacKinnon and Philippe Chabot for Rezolution Pictures, as well as Lori Lozinski and Ellen Rutter.

Little Bird is expected to premiere on Crave and APTN lumi later this year. The series was first announced by Bell Media during its 2021 upfront presentation.

Image courtesy of Crave and APTN lumi