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In Taken's blog, our team includes information about the hosts, series creators, and crew, recent articles carefully curated from reliable sources, and pieces of information on the issues related to Canada's MMIWG.

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Developing Emerging Filmmakers - Katarina Ziervogel

Developing Emerging Filmmakers – Katarina Ziervogel

Katarina Ziervogel is an emerging Indigenous filmmaker with a burning passion for writing, producing, and the most important one of all… filmmaking. With a great thirst for the learning of visual storytelling, she thrives to reach out and acquire the knowledge, experience, and understanding of the craft behind filmmaking of all genres. She brings professionalism, enthusiasm, and a great confidence to try and commitment to her craft. She was raised in a family with a visionary for creative arts. She comes from the background in Ojibway and Mohawk from her mother. Her parents are both writers, so it is no secret that Katarina has inherited her passion for writing (her mother is Kim Wheeler, a journalist and producer for Aboriginal media and the mainstream media over at CBC. Her stepfather is Jordan Wheeler, a screenwriter for North of 60, Arctic…

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The Taken Team Attends Launch into Canada's MMIWG

The Taken Team Attends Launch into Canada’s MMIWG

On Wednesday, August 3, 2016, Canada launched a National Inquiry into its missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Politicians, media, and some loved ones of the MMIWG were in attendance, as were members of the Taken team. We will follow the Inquiry, and how it is impacting this issue, as it unfolds. http://aptn.ca/news/2016/08/31/mmiwg-chief-commissioner-talks-about-putting-together-the-national-inquiry/

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Host Spotlight – Lisa Meeches

Host Spotlight – Lisa Meeches

Lisa Meeches, Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Director, Host of Taken, is one of the most dynamic and respected producers in the film industry, who happens to be an Ojibway from Long Plain First Nation.

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Drag the Red

Many family members of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls find some peace in honouring their loved ones with vigils, memorial walks, and supporting the family members of other missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

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Are Canada’s Child and Family Services Agencies Providing Adequate Care?

Some of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls have been at one time in their lives, at several points in their lives, or even at the time leading up to their disappearance or murder, in the care of the Child and Family Services system.

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