CANADA | 68 min | Partial Subtitles
Tickets: $12/PWYW
A series of short documentaries about ecological relationships.
Uncharted Waters
Molly Dennis | CANADA | 24 min
Four young people with diverse connections to Howe Sound/ Atl’ka7tsem confront an uncertain future. United by an innovative, community-led mapping project, can they work together to conserve their environment?
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Molly Dennis
Molly Dennis is a British documentary filmmaker, who moved to Canada during the pandemic and was immediately inspired by the nature and community in British Columbia. Dennis is a self-shooting Assistant Producer in television documentaries and has worked on projects for major broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4 and Netflix. Dennis is particularly interested in telling stories that confront social injustice, champion experts and highlight underrepresented voices to challenge and inform audiences.
Modern Goose
Karsten Wall | CANADA | 22 min
Able to navigate by reading the Earth’s magnetic field, at home on land, air, and water, geese straddle the territory between ancient instincts and the contemporary world. An iconic yet often misunderstood animal.
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Karsten Wall
Karsten Wall is a Winnipeg-based editor who began filming his own nature documentaries only a few years ago. The first project he directed, The Seven Wonders of Manitoba, won a Golden Sheaf Award at the 2020 Yorkton Film Festival. Recent editing credits include Kingdom of the Polar Bears on CBC’s The Nature of Things and Great Lakes Untamed on TVO.
W8linaktegw ta niona (The River and Us)
Myriam Landry | CANADA | 7 min
Exploring the importance of the W8linaktegw River to her family and nation, director Myriam Landry reflects on her father’s stories and bears witness to the river’s transformation.
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Myriam Landry
Myriam Landry was born in Trois-Rivières and has lived in Tiohti:áke (Montréal) for the past six years. She is a member of the W8banaki (Abenaki) First Nation in the community of Wôlinak. Her professional life is devoted to projects related to the development of Indigenous Peoples. She has been making pottery as a hobby for nearly 10 years. Through her film, Myriam seeks to showcase Ndakinna, the ancestral territory of the W8banakiak, and the Abenaki language, which she is slowly learning.
Losing Blue
Leanne Allison | CANADA | 15 min
What does it mean to lose a colour? A cinematic poem that delves into the impending loss of some of the most extraordinary blues on Earth—the otherworldly blues of ancient mountain lakes—now fading due to climate change.
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Leanne Allison
Leanne Allison is a filmmaker based in Canmore, Alberta, known for her award-winning feature-length National Film Board documentaries Being Caribou and Finding Farley. Both these films are based on long wilderness journeys in remote parts of Canada that continue to shape her work today. She is the co-creator of the NFB interactive documentary Bear 71, which is widely considered to be a seminal piece in the world of interactive media.
