Film

Amazay, a film about water

In 2003 Northgate Minerals proposed to dump 750 million tonnes of acid tailings into a pristine lake.
The Tse Keh Nay said no. The battle for Amazay Lake had begun.

In 1968, the creation of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam amassed the world’s largest artificial lake, the Williston Reservoir. The rising waters flooded the Tse Keh Nay from their homelands and resulted in the destruction of the lower half of their watershed. The impacts of this massive event are still being felt today. Mercury contamination, massive erosion, wildlife habitat destruction and the loss of whole villages have taken their toll.

In 2003, a new threat emerged that endangered the upper half of the Finlay River – Kemess North.
Over the next 5 years the Tse Keh Nay would fight through a flawed environmental assessment process to ultimately convince our Governments to reject the Kemess North project and protect Amazay Lake.

This is their story. Directed by Stephen St. Laurent and J.P. Laplante.

OHME MADE MOVIES

Strange and forbidden visual experiments made by cult leader William Brown. Includes short documentaries on the interesting lives of cult members; harvest the cat!; stand up comedy; live spoken word performances; rainbow chasing and other strange, forbidden…things…watch if you dare!

Duke & Battersby Film Fest

This film program features the video work of the internationally award-winning Canadian artists Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby. Duke and Battersby do not shy away from dirty stuff. Or creepy stuff. Or stuff that makes people uncomfortable. You could say that the dirty, the creepy and the uncomfortable are their milieu. Duke and Battersby’s inclination to make art that is simultaneously entertaining, intelligent and ethical is underpinned by their understanding that every aesthetic act is in some way futile.