The movie Iep!, a Dutch film in which Kenadie plays a character who looks like a girl but has wings instead of arms, is being shown as a fundraiser for several groups which have helped the family.

“I wanted to be able to give a little back to all the places that have helped us over the years,” said her mom, Brianne Jourdin. “Over the years we’ve had a lot of support from the community.”

The fundraising screening will benefit: Kidsability, which helped Kenadie learn to walk; the Cambridge Humane Society, which helped the family get to a Little People of America conference; Under His Covenant Love, a Guatamala missionary group; and Walking With Giants, which supports four Canadian families, including one in Hamilton, dealing with primordial dwarfism.

“We’re trying to support them financially to get them to the Walking With Giants conference, which is just for kids with primordial dwarfism, which is in England this summer,” said Jourdin.

Kenadie, who has primordial dwarfism, weighed two pounds, eight ounces at birth. Now seven years old, she is 31 inches tall and weighs 14 pounds.

Iep! was filmed in 2008. The film’s producers learned of Kenadie from a 2006 television documentary on her life.

“They had already tried to cast for the film, but put it off because they couldn’t find the proper people to play the parts they wanted,” says Jourdin.

After seeing the documentary, they thought Kenadie would be perfect for the lead role.

Based on a Dutch children's book of the same name, Iep! is about a couple who while bird watching find Kenadie's character, Viegeltje, a small girl with wings, and take her home to stay with them.

“They want to treat her as their own child, but eventually, as birds do, she wants to fly south,” says Jourdin.

“She gets away and it’s about their journey to try and find her and bring her home.”

The film company has allowed the family to screen the film twice — it's also being show in the family's former hometown of Sault Ste. Marie.

The movie will be shown with English subtitles.

Sunday's screening at Mohawk is at 1 p. m. Tickets are $20.

For information call 519-277-2604 or email littlekenadie@gmail.com .