Our documentary film Bringing the Salmon Home has been honoured with the Best of Fest award at the Fernie Mountain Film Festival, held Feb 16-17, 2024. The festival organizers note that “the film shares a relevant, local, and hopeful message, told through an Indigenous lens.”
Bringing the Salmon Home Initiative representatives Mark Thomas, Marty Williams, Vickie Thomas, and Avery Gravelle were on hand to open the film and take audience questions after.
Thousands of people are learning the Bringing the Salmon Home story, including in community screenings in the Okanagan, Secwépemc, and Ktunaxa Nations, and in non-Indigenous forums across North America.
Bringing the Salmon Home is the 30-minute film about the Syilx Okanagan, Secwépemc, and Ktunaxa Nations who are together upholding their sacred responsibility to reintroduce the salmon to the upper Columbia River in Canada, working with the BC and Canadian governments, US Tribes, and allies along the river.
This film has been chosen to feature at five festivals to date, including the recent Fernie Mountain Film Festival, the Spokane International Film Festival (Feb 2024), Nature Without Borders Film Festival (online Spring 2024), the Portland Eco Film Festival (June 2024), and WaterDocs Film Festival in Toronto (Nov 2023).
To arrange a Bringing the Salmon Home film screening please contact comms@columbiariversalmon.ca.
Thank you for your support,
Bringing the Salmon Home: The Columbia River Salmon Reintroduction Initiative team
