Trailer for ‘Yintah’ Doc – Indigenous Ladies Battle to Save Their Land
by Alex Billington
October 14, 2024
Supply: YouTube
“You’re trespassing!” Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a documentary movie referred to as Yintah, which is the phrase for “land” on this tribe’s language. This premiered on the True/False Movie Pageant earlier this yr and has performed at various different prestigious fests in 2024. The movie focuses on the impression on the lives of the Moist’suwet’en individuals who dwell on unceded territory (in Canada), as they push again in opposition to and oppose the development of a number of pipelines. Yintah is “about an anti-colonial resurgence—a fierce & ongoing combat for Indigenous and human rights within the face of a colonial authorities dedicated to seizing lands at gunpoint.” Canada has approved fossil gasoline giants to construct pipelines throughout Moist’suwet’en land. The outcome: a decade lengthy conflict between Moist’suwet’en land defenders and Canadian police searching for to grab Moist’suwet’en land at gunpoint. The story is about two Indigenous ladies and different land defenders preventing to carry onto their land. Seems to be like an empowering and vitally vital doc spending time with the actual individuals concerned.
Here is the official trailer (+ poster) for Toledano & Wickham & Michell’s doc movie Yintah, from YouTube:
Yintah, which means “land“, is a documentary on the Moist’suwet’en nation’s combat for sovereignty. Spanning greater than a decade, the movie follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from a number of of the most important fossil gasoline corporations on Earth. Yintah is the story of the Indigenous proper to sovereignty over Indigenous territories. Freda, Molly, and the Dinï ze’ and Tsakë ze’ are a part of a centuries-long combat to guard their youngsters, tradition, and land from colonial violence. For the Moist’suwet’en, their very future is at stake. Yintah is co-directed and produced by three filmmakers: Michael Toledano, Jennifer Wickham, and Brenda Michell. It is also produced by Bob Moore. This initially premiered on the 2024 True/False Movie Pageant earlier this yr, and it additionally performed at Scorching Docs in Canada. Netflix will debut the Yintah doc streaming on Netflix (within the US, UK, and Canada) beginning on October 18th, 2024 developing this month. For extra particulars on the movie go to their official website.