[BCMA] BC Archives Awareness Week: Film Screening and Q&A: Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again (Thurs, Nov 20, 2025; 9:30 - 11:30am PST)

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv]

We warmly invite you to celebrate BC Archives Awareness Week
<https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/Archives-Awareness-Week>, November 15 - 22,
2025, with the Archives Association of British Columbia
<https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/>! Join us for our next online event that is
FREE to attend.

*Film Screening: "Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again"     *


Date: November 20, 2025

Time: 9:30 - 11:30am PST

Location: online via Zoom

*RSVP here: **https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/event-6430243
<https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/event-6430243> *


*Q&A with Director and Filmmaker - Lyana Patrick*

Lyana Patrick will join us online after the film to talk about it and her
role working with Indigenous communities in BC and how archival records and
building relationships were part of her filmmaking process. Nechako set
important precedents for Documentary filmmaking, creating new language in
contracts and processes to ensure that copyright, reciprocity, and IP
stayed with the Nechako Nations; including a Memorandum of Understanding,
National Film Board Contract Language, and a Community Benefit Agreement.

You can learn more about this at: Nechako Nations Set Groundbreaking
Precedents in Indigenous Documentary Filmmaking — Nechako
<https://www.nechakoriver.ca/making>


*Film Synopsis:*

Nechako is a crucial documentary from Lyana Patrick that follows two
Indigenous Nations fighting for our collective future. When the Kenney Dam
was built in the 1950s, it diverted 70 percent of the Nechako River into an
artificial reservoir, severely impacting the lives of local Stellat’en and
Saik’uz Nations. What followed were decades of resistance, including legal
actions against the Canadian federal and provincial governments and Rio
Tinto Alcan, a subsidiary of a global mining conglomerate. Nechako follows
the people fighting today to restore a river and a way of life: Nations
going up against industry, community leaders advocating for their people,
Elders documenting their histories and community members living off the
land. An urgent call to action, Patrick’s film asks what survival looks
like when it serves everyone, in a story 70 years in the making—a story of
hope and resistance against all odds, amidst large-scale environmental
destruction and despite the will of powerful institutions.

*The AABC gratefully acknowledges that "Nechako: It Will Be A Big River
Again"** is provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Lantern
Films and Experimental Forest Films.*


Regards,

Lisa

Lisa Glandt, MAS
Education and Advisory Services (EAS) Coordinator
Archives Association of British Columbia
email: aabc.advisor at aabc.ca
website: aabc.ca

I respectfully acknowledge that I work on the unceded, traditional and
ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh
(Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
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