Trickster
2020
The Trickster series follows Jared, an Indigenous teen struggling to keep his family above water, when a mysterious stranger, Wade, blows into town and turns his already chaotic life inside out. And when weird things start happening, it becomes clear he's also the mythic magical being the Trickster. What begins as an unnerving slow burn of strange events in Jared's already-messy life crescendos to an epic clash of magic, monsters and mayhem.
"Brilliant at times, bracing and entertaining..."
John Doyle - The Globe and Mail
"Dark, funny, and ridiculously suspenseful..."Trickster" is the mark of a new era in Indigenous media."
Shea Vassar - Chatelaine
"Michelle Latimer's trademark wicked-cool style and energy pulses and throbs through this series."
Radheyan Simonpillai - Now Magazine
"Some of the best television of the year, an insightful, fun, and clever blend of the fantastic and the political."
Shelagh Rowan-Legg - Screen Anarchy
AWARDS
Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival - Television Episodic Program
Nominated for 15 Canadian Screen Awards
Winner: Best Scripted Series of 2020 by Playback Magazine
Winner: Writer's Guild of Canada Award - Best Scripted Series
Winner: Canadian Screen Award - Best Lead Actress, Drama
Winner: Canadian Screen Award - Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Fiction Series
Winner: CAFTCAD Award - Best Costume Design in TV Contemporary
Winner: Directors Guild of Canada Award - Best Sound Editing in a Dramatic Series
Nominated: Prix Aurora Award - Best Visual Presentation
CREDITS
Director: Michelle Latimer
Co-created by: Michelle Latimer & Tony Elliott
Executive Producers: Jennifer Kawaja & Julia Sereny
Produced by: Sienna Films and Streel Films for CBC
IN THE NEWS
Playback - Scripted Series of the Year: Trickster
The Huffington Post - CBC's Trickster is Indigenous Gothic At It's Finest
The Globe and Mail - CBC's Trickster - Brilliant at Times, Bracing and Entertaining
The Globe and Mail - Schitt's Creek and Trickster Win Big at the WGC Screenwriting Awards
CBC - Trickster is Your Next Must Watch TV Series and Here's Why
Roger Ebert - Reexamining Indigenous Mythology: Michelle Latimer on Inconvenient Indian & Trickster
NOW Magazine - Trickster is Electrifying
TV Junkies - 7 Reasons Why Trickster is a Must-Watch
Screen Daily - The Canadian TV Series Reflecting the Country's Dynamic Population
Chatelaine - Six Reasons to Watch Trickster, CBC's New Supernatural Thriller
Chatelaine - Inconvenient Indian: Filmmaker Michelle Latimer is Flipping the Script
The Georgia Straight - Trickster is an Electrifying Adaptation of Eden Robinson's Book
Screen Anarchy - Toronto 2020 Review: Trickster, Mischief and Mayhem in the North
Televixen - Michelle Latimer Talks Trickster
TBI Vision - Show of the Week: Trickster
CBC - Casting Announced as CBC Original Series The Trickster Begins Production