World Water Day Celebration - Film Screening & Expert Dialogue

Film: Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again

Director: Lyana Patrick

Runtime: 90 minutes

Year: 2025

Ticket Price: Free

After seven decades, two Indigenous nations reach a turning point in their historic legal fight to reclaim the Nechako River and the way of life it once sustained. Join us for this special World Water Day screening of Nechako, a powerful chronicle of resistance and renewal that reminds us that survival must serve everyone and the health of our lands and waters is inseparable from our own.

Immediately following the film, Laura Brandes (Communications Director, POLIS Water Sustainability Project) will host a moderated conversation with special guests writer/director Lyana Patrick (Stellat’en First Nation) and SȾHENEP Adam Olsen (Former MLA/Tsartlip First Nation).

(Registration for the film screening is appreciated but not required.)

Before the film (3:30 to 4:30pm), guests are invited to stop by our watershed security resource fair in the Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building. Join us for pizza and networking with water leaders and champions from across campus and the broader community before we watch the film together.

This event is presented by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and Centre for Global Studies with the BC Watershed Security Coalition, BIG_Lab & Indigenous Internationalisms, CIFAL-Victoria, Environmental Law Centre & Watershed Watch Salmon Society.

The film Nechako is provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Lantern Films, and Experimental Forest Films.

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Host or Publisher Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria