Demaris Moon Walker is a singer and songwriter, local to Treaty 6 in Edmonton. She is also a performer and actress and making her big screen debut in the critically acclaimed and highly emotional film. Café Daughter. The film has seen great reviews at film festivals and theatres around the world and now makes its Canadian debut on CBC at 8 p.m. MST, tonight , Friday June 28.
Inspired by the life of Doctor Lillian Eve Quan Dyck, Café Daughter follows a Chinese-Indigenous family as they try to survive and thrive in a very racist Canada, circa the 50s and 60s. The Wongs run Happy’s Inn restaurant in their home of Saskatchewan. Charlie (Tom Lim), the passionate chef and patriarch of the family is a Chinese immigrant doing his best to present as a ‘Good Canadian’ and is moulding his children to do the same. Catherine (Sera-Lys McArthur), the heart of the family and matriarch, is Indigenous – of the Cree Nation but is passing for white and has the kids do the same to avoid them being taken or worse.
Demaris chats with Bill about the films theme , it’s 1960’s setting and what it was like for her first big production:
You can learn more about the film here.
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