Jessica Hallenbeck

I'll be in Vancouver all week reporting on this landmark case for #pressfreedom in Canada.

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NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN

📍Yukon Premiere
📅 Thu, Feb 12
🍿Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse YT

📣 Special guests @lanternfilms.bsky.social & Jasmine Thomas (Saik'uz Nation) in attendance for a Q&A.

What’s at Stake During DULF’s Constitutional Challenge | The Tyee The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.

Dulf’s constitutional challenge continues tomorrow (Jan 21) at 9am. Fairly certain Dan Werb will be testifying.

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What’s at Stake During DULF’s Constitutional Challenge | The Tyee The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.

Dulf’s constitutional challenge continues today until 4pm.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Nechako is a powerful film that follows two Indigenous Nations, the Stellat’en and Saik’uz, as they fight to restore the Nechako River and the way of life it has sustained for generations.

Director Lyana Patrick joined us for DWF LIVE to share her experiences and insights.
https://ow.ly/LAbh50XX0OT

B-Side, Track 6: We Have Stories — with Rosemary Georgeson and Jessica Hallenbeck On this episode of the Below the Radar B-Sides, we’re joined by Rosemary Georgeson and Jessica Hallenbeck, two artists whose ongoing community engaged collaborative work have produced multiple acclaim...

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Critical Futures - University of Toronto Press Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation

A new book! Excited to keep such company, contributing to this cutting-edge collection on community engagement. Deep appreciation to the editors, Stuart Poyntz, Am Johal, and Kari Grain.

utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Good Medicine E98 - Lyana Patrick | Nechako In this episode of Good Medicine, we speak with Stellat’en First Nation filmmaker Lyana Patrick about her feature documentary Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again, now streaming across Canada through

🧡 The @cfnr.bsky.social show Good Medicine, hosted by @ashleypimlott.bsky.social, invited Lyana Patrick to discuss her feature doc NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN, which is now streaming on nfb.ca and the NFB app.
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Now Streaming: Nechako Imparts Generational Wisdom in a Fight for the Future - POV Magazine Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again observes as First Nations communities join forces to preserve the environment for generations to come.

Now streaming from the NFB, NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN observes as members from the Stellat’en and Saik’uz First Nations as they join forces to protect the river that's long sustained their communities. povmagazine.com/now-streamin...

👀 Watch the doc NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN on NFB.ca today. Then, join a live online discussion hosted by @downiewenjack.bsky.social tomorrow. 💜
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Nechako documentary follows first of its kind lawsuit - The Gateway Documentary by Lyana Patrick shows first of it's kind lawsuit in effort of Indigenous communities to regain stewardship of the Nechako river.

💙 Lyana Patrick spoke with the University of Alberta's official student newspaper, The Gateway, about her documentary NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN, which is now streaming on nfb.ca.
thegatewayonline.ca/2025/11/nech...
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UVic alumna’s film ‘Nechako’ is breaking documentarian barriers 'Nechako' is an example of Indigenous people telling their own stories. The Saik’uz and Stellat’en Nations want their river back.

📣 New review up for Lyana Patrick's documentary NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN, now streaming on nfb.ca + the NFB app.
Story by @themartlet.bsky.social (Victoria, BC).
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Nechako: A Story of Loss, Community and Recovery The film follows various individuals forced to balance the challenges of everyday life with their responsibility to seek The documentary is a personal account of the impact that the construction of th...

📽️ One more screening at @viffest.bsky.social Centre on June 21:

Nechako: A story of loss, community and recovery via @ubyssey.ca ssey.ca :
ubyssey.ca/culture/nech...

A Trumped Up Police State Is Coming From militarized crackdowns to legal impunity, Trump’s policing agenda is designed to crush dissent and critics, explains Radley Balko.

From militarized crackdowns to legal impunity, Trump’s policing agenda is designed to crush dissent and critics.

“We’re really getting to the point where law enforcement officers have almost no accountability at all,” says @radleybalko.bsky.social on this week's The Intercept Briefing, in conversation with @akelalacy.bsky.social and @jesswash.bsky.social.

Zionist entity needs to release the 12 hostages it is holding aboard the Madleen.

And release the 10,000+ Palestinians it is holding hostage in zionist prisons.

The Water We Call Home 2nd Anniversary Celebration – A National Indigenous Peoples Day Event at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery - FREE - Gulf of Georgia Enjoy free admision to the Cannery and celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day 2025 and the 2nd anniversary of The Water We Call Home

Come celebrate The Water We Call Home on June 14th, 2025, with curator Rosemary Georgeson (Coast Salish & Sahtu Dene), filmmaker Jessica Hallenbeck, and the women of the Galiano Island gathering
gulfofgeorgiacannery.org/events/free-...

The Black Panther Cubs: when the revolution doesn't come They are the children of the Black Panther party – the self-styled Panther cubs. Born into the 1970s revolutionary movement for Black equality and self-determination,…

filmmaker Aurora Brachman’s short, When The Revolution Doesn't Come, has just been selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick! The film explores the history and present day legacy of the Black Panther Party through the eyes of the children who grew up within the movement. vimeo.com/1075981556?f...

Congrats to my friend Johnny Mack for yer new job. irshdc.ubc.ca/2025/06/05/p...

Julian Carrington Appointed Executive Director of DOC - POV Magazine Julian Carrington named executive director of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC). He begins the role with the advocacy group on June 9.

Julian Carrington named executive director of Documentary Organization of Canada ( @docorg.bsky.social) povmagazine.com/julian-carri...

YouTube video by NFB Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again | OFFICIAL TRAILER

Ahead of the premiere at Sydney Film Festival and a theatrical run at @viffest.bsky.social Nechako trailer is out! youtu.be/YfN7h9BKciA

Nechako – It Will Be A Big River Again – Sydney Film Festival Memory and resistance flow through this meditative, visually striking doc chronicling Indigenous peoples’ 70-year struggle to restore Canada’s Nechako River and

Hey Australia!

Nechako - It Will Be a Big River Again will be having it's international premiere at this years Sydney Film Festival during these following dates & times:

Saturday June 7, 2025 at 2pm
Wednesday June 11, 2025 at 6pm

Tickets in the link below!

www.sff.org.au/program/even...

📣 Vancouver, BC:

NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN opens June 6 at the VIFF Centre!

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On a new 👁‍🗨 @redeyeradio.bsky.social👁‍🗨 Stellat’en First Nation 'NECHAKO' director Lyana Patrick talks about how her new film documents years of resistance by two Nations, including a groundbreaking legal proceeding against the Canadian government + Rio Tinto Alcan

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The premiere of Dr Lyana Patrick @lyanap.bsky.social ’s stunning and beautiful film “Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again” tonight was so moving. I’m urging you to go see the next screening on May 9th at the @sfu.ca Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema.

A dam destroyed their river — 61 years later, two First Nations fought for justice A new documentary — ‘Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again’ — tells the story of the northwestern 'B.C.' landscape and the communities taking care of it

Saik’uz & Stellat’en First Nations fought mining company Rio Tinto & B.C. in court > 10 yrs, seeking justice for damage to the Nechako & to have their constitutional fishing rights recognized.
From 45,000 to 26 adult Early Stuart sockeye! The dam flooded 900 km2 of their lands.
tinyurl.com/4c96k79w

Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again | VIFF Centre In the face of environmental destruction, two Nations fight to restore their river and a way of life.

🎬 We're giving away a pair of free tickets to the June 6 4:15pm screening of Nechako at the VIFF Centre—featuring a panel with filmmaker Lyana Patrick and Saik’uz First Nation’s Jasmine Thomas.

Want to go? Reply to enter! We'll draw a name on June 4.

Details: viff.org/whats-on/nec...

Here is a short French conversation about the documentary Nechako. Écoutez un segment avec Radio Canada
par rapport au documentaire Nechako. ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

May 30, 2025 DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 05/30/2025 📖 The Parable of the Ledger and the Labyrinth 🌀 In a crumbling office lit by flickering fluorescence, we thumb through a ledger on our desk. The ledger, heav…

DULF Fundraising and speaking tour coming to a city near you! dulf.ca/2025/05/30/m... also pls donate.

Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again brings struggle over B.C.’s Kenney Dam to VIFF Centre, June 6 to 21 — Stir Lyana Patrick’s NFB documentary, recounting the Stellat’en and Saik’uz Nations’ ongoing fight for justice, returns for local screenings

📽️ NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN returns to the VIFF Centre.
By @createastir.ca
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