On Tuesday night, when it was time for Beans director Tracey Deer to accept a TIFF Tribute Award at the Toronto Film Festival's virtual awards gala, and she began to thank her mother, the Canadian Indigenous filmmaker's eyes suddenly welled with tears, and she drew in a deep breath. "Mom...
I'm here because of you, because of the belief that you had in me," Deer said, addressing Angela Deer, before turning her thoughts back to the nationwide CTV audience who, like her, were in their own homes amid the Coronavirus pandemic. "She told me every day since I was a little girl that I could do anything I wanted to do if I set my mind to it, and to never let anyone stand in my way.
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