Documentary about Indigenous land defenders resisting Canadian pipeline to be shown in the US and UK
Still from documentary: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) on Wet’suwet’en territory, November 2021.
Variety reports: “Netflix has acquired feature documentary Yintah for U.S., U.K. and Canadian distribution. Yintah will open in select theaters in the U.S. and U.K. and will stream on Netflix starting Oct. 18.”
The film was co-directed by Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano and Jennifer Wickham.
They say: “Mirroring the scope and ambition of the Wet’suwet’en fight to protect unsurrendered lands from theft, Yintah offers the definitive account of a historic wave of Indigenous resistance to Canadian colonialism. Drawing from more than a decade of verité footage, the film shadows two Wet’suwet’en leaders (Freda Huson and Molly Wickham) as they reoccupy and protect their homelands in the face of state violence.”
Michell notes: “The world needs to know the truth of what took place on Wet’suwet’en territory – how a determined community stood at gunpoint to protect Wet’suwet’en lands from theft.”
And Toledano adds: “As filmmakers, we found that Canada protects its image through force. Throughout the years our camera operators were held at gunpoint, repeatedly arrested and detained, subject to illegal police exclusion zones, surveillance, harassment, and even incarceration. Despite this repression, Yintah is a film where every consequential moment was captured, providing a remarkably cohesive account of a story that police worked hard to suppress.”
The trailer for the film can be seen here.
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