films
Amplifying our Story through co-creation
Photo credit: IMAX
We are honored to be working alongside the makers of these films to share our stories, educate, and activate community.
Reasons for Hope
We are honored to have our Buffalo restoration work featured as a highlight in the IMAX film, Jane Goodall’s Reasons for Hope. The documentary premiered May 31 in Sudbury, ON and June 2, in Phoenix, AZ. It showcases conservation work from across the world that offers a fierce and loving outlook towards our future. The film highlights inspiring work across four key themes: the energy and dedication of young people, the extraordinary human brain, the resilience of nature, and the indomitable human spirit. It will be released this Spring. We will be hosting workshops in community following the release.
Bring Them Home
Two-hundred years ago, the Blackfeet Tribe witnessed the near-extinction of bison, one of the most important links to their identity, culture and spirituality–an act that nearly destroyed the Tribe. Since then, the Blackfoot people have endured a two-century long campaign of oppression and persecution; a brutal and violent experience that the Blackfoot resist through healing, culture, and the power of Ttribal sovereignty.
Bring Them Home is set mainly in Montana on the Blackfeet Reservation and follows a small group of Blackfeet who are working to right these historic wrongs by returning wild bison to their lands - an act that would heal people, re-enliven traditional culture and bring economic opportunity to their community.
The American Buffalo
Ken Burns’s new documentary The American Buffalo will reach audiences nationwide this fall. The film considers the story of the buffalo as “one of the most dramatic demonstrations of our ability to destroy the natural world; it also provides compelling proof that we are capable of pulling a species back from the precipice of extinction.”
The story of Buffalo is no doubt a tragic one—it is also inherently an Indigenous story. Indigenous history has been largely master narrated by white men and one can’t help but wonder how the story of Buffalo would be different if told through Native eyes. INDIGENOUS LED’s collaboration with the team at WETA National Productions/PBS for The American Buffalo creates a unique opportunity to do just this; to share and elevate our untold history and sacred relationship with the natural world with communities across Turtle Island. Together we can draw on the past, in this unique moment in time, to craft an authentic path to truth, reconciliation, and healing. Stay tuned for opportunities to get involved in your region and contribute to the collective effort to restore buffalo to the continent.