https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e4dc46e8-d38d-408c-bf2a-72a3937e739b On Tuesday, the Ted Rogers Hot Docs film festival declared Yintah (the land) winner of its Best Canadian Documentary film award for 2024. The film, co-directed by Michael Toledano, Brenda Michell and Jennifer Wickham chronicles over a decade of Wet’suwet’en resistance to the construction of the CGL pipeline on their unceded territory. The film premiered on April 27th in Toronto at the TIFF Lightbox before screening at Hot Docs where it received a five-minute standing ovation. The film is reminiscent of Alanis Obomsiwin’s film Kanehsatake: 270 years of Resistance (1993), a documentary detailing the 1990 armed stand-off known as the Oka Crisis in Quebec where Kanien’kehà:ka were protesting the expansion of an existing golf course on their sacred burial grounds. Sonia Furstenau, BC Green Party leader and MLA for Cowichan Valley, who spent time in Wet’suwet’en territory, said of the Hot Docs win,“this is fantastic news! I trust this will draw much-needed attention to the lands, waters, and communities of the Yintah. I look forward to watching the film, my time there was transformative. Looking ahead, we must protect what matters most. Air, water, and land.” Mon, 04 May 2026 07:34:46 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e4dc46e8-d38d-408c-bf2a-72a3937e739b All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.