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Yintah

Yintah

Yintah

Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano • Canada • 2024

110 min

Synopsis

Yintah, meaning “land” in the Wet’suwet’en language, tells the story of an Indigenous nation asserting sovereignty. It is the story of the Wet’suwet’en people reoccupying their territory and resisting the construction of multiple pipelines. The film follows activists Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, along with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and fellow land defenders, as they reoccupy and protect their ancestral land in a decade-long battle to keep out the companies that seek to exploit it.

Biography and filmography

Michael Toledano is an award winning filmmaker and photojournalist based in British Columbia Canada. Jennifer Wickham is Cas Yikh (Grizzly House) from the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en people. Brenda Mitchell is Tsakë ze’ K-eltiy of the Unist'ot'en people of the Wet’suwet'en Nation.