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NIKA & MADISON

By Eva THOMAS

FILM ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL - as PROMO

Drama - Completed 2025

Winner of multiple festival awards and a DGC 2025 Best Director Nomination. Fearing they won’t be believed, two young Indigenous women go on the run after one’s defense of the other results in a violent attack against a police officer.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2025

Discovery

Director's Guild of Canada 2025

Best Director Nomination

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Drama, Female director
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH-CANADA
- Duration
- 87 mn
- Director(s)
- Eva THOMAS
- Writer(s)
- Michael MCGOWAN, Eva THOMAS
- Cast
- Ellyn JADE, Star SLADE, Amanda BRUGEL, Shawn DOYLE, Jennifer PODEMSKI, Gail MAURICE
- Producer(s)
- Eva THOMAS
- Synopsis
- Winner of multiple festival awards and a DGC 2025 Best Director Nomination. Inspired by her acclaimed short film Redlights, Nika & Madison is a story of friendship, survival, and resilience, following two Indigenous women whose lives are upended after a violent encounter with police. Fearing they won’t be believed, the childhood friends go on the run, from the reserve to the city, only to face the systemic barriers stacked against them.

NIKA & MADISON

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