Toronto, ON, Oct. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tom Wilson is thought for his bands Junkhouse and Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. Premiering on Monday, October 31 at 9 pm ET on TVO—with streaming obtainable now by way of TVO Today, the TVO Today cellular app and sensible TV providers—TVO Original Beautiful Scars follows Wilson on a journey of self-discovery that reveals a secret his dad and mom took to their grave: He was adopted as a baby and his beginning household is Mohawk.
“Making this movie was a transformative and revitalizing experience for my mother and I,” says musician and visible artist, Tom Wilson. “It freed whatever old ghosts that were hanging around our attics and stirred up the sludge at the bottom of our lakes. My mother and I were victims of a heartless colonial system but in the end we won.”
“Beautiful Scars will captivate viewers with the way it peels back the layers of a complicated, charismatic songwriter,” says John Ferri, VP of Programming and Content at TVO. “Tom Wilson’s quest for his personal truth and place in the world is both heartrending and humorous, which is a credit to his talents as a storyteller.”
Written and directed by Shane Belcourt and produced by Corey Russell (Cream Productions), TVO Original Beautiful Scars brings us near Wilson as he seeks out the reality and grapples with new information about himself. Viewers in every single place shall be touched by his have to find out about his beginning household and his place among the many Mohawk neighborhood.
“Tom is a fearless artist that courageously wears his heart on his sleeve, and for us, he puts it on the screen,” says Belcourt. “And as we spoke about from the beginning, his reclamation journey isn’t about putting on an Indigenous costume. This is ultimately a story about taking the costume off and revealing Tehoh’ahake (Two Roads), his Mohawk name.”
“With Shane at the helm and our incredible access to Tom, who’s a naturally gifted storyteller, we tell a layered, nuanced story,” says Russell. “Beautiful Scars is Tom’s painstakingly told journey about the scars that both hurt us and make us who we are.”
Wilson’s celebrated music profession and his private challenges are on show all through the movie, illustrating the depths of his self-destructive tendencies he has wrestled with over time. After the breakdown of his family, Wilson confronts his unhappiness in life and discovers the long-held secret of his adoption. The revelation results in a go to to Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, house of his beginning household and ancestors. Tom learns about his dad and mom, why his beginning mom gave him up and the way she managed to remain in his life as a “cousin.”
Watch the premiere of TVO Original Beautiful Scars on Monday, October 31, 2022 at 9 pm ET on TVO, and stream it now on TVO Today, the TVO Today cellular app and sensible TV providers. Subscribe to the weekly TVO Docs Newsletter for the most recent on programming updates and options, or observe @TVODocs on Twitter and Facebook.
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ABOUT CREAM FILMS
A division of Cream Productions, Cream Films is managed by award-winning producer Corey Russell. In 2021, Cream Films co-produced, together with Paul Kemp, Nike’s Big Bet, which had its world premiere on the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and went on to win the Canadian Screen Award for Best Sports Feature. They additionally produced All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs for Amazon Studios and the NHL, which was launched in October 2021. They are presently in manufacturing on a brand new documentary sequence for CNN+ to be launched in early 2023.
Cream Productions is a premier manufacturing firm with purchasers that embrace streaming giants Netflix and Amazon in addition to main networks similar to CNN, Discovery, History and extra. In 2021, the corporate has produced the not too long ago launched Netflix sequence Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan in addition to History of the Sitcom and The Story of Late Night for CNN.
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