HA NII TOKXW: Our Food Table

Name: HA NII TOKXW: Our Food Table
Start: 2024-01-13
End: 2024-01-14
Location: Virtual

The story of the Indigenous Gitanyow people and their struggle to protect their traditional lands and ”food table” in the face of climate change, industrialization and colonization in Northern British Columbia.

Farhan Umedaly

Farhan is best known for his Indigenous focused documentaries – ‘A Last Stand for Lelu’, and more recently ‘HA NII TOKXW: OUR FOOD TABLE’. The son of refugees to Canada from Uganda, Farhan is committed to building alliances with Indigenous communities through providing professional training and mentorship in filmmaking to help give voices to those who have important stories to tell.

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Credits

Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs, VoVo Productions

Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs, David Suzuki

FeatureD on

Waterdocs Film Festival – Official Selection (2021)
Toronto Independent Film Festival of CIFT – Best Short Film (2021)
Freeland Film Festival – Special Mention (2022)
London Eco Film Festival – Best Documentary (2022)
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival – Official Selection (2022)
International Activism Film Festival – Best Documentary (2022)
Wildlife Conservation Film Festival – Official Selection (2022)
Vancouver Independent Film Festival – Finalist (2022)
Antakya International Film Festival – Best International Documentary (2022) BC
Environmental Film Festival – Finalist (2022)
tve Global Sustainability Film Awards – Top 4 Impact Documentary (2022)
Vancouver South Asian Film Festival – Best Documentary (2022)

Award Winner

Toronto Independent Film Festival of CIFT – Best Short Film (2021)
Freeland Film Festival – Special Mention (2022)
London Eco Film Festival – Best Documentary (2022)
International Activism Film Festival – Best Documentary (2022)
Vancouver Independent Film Festival – Finalist (2022)
Antakya International Film Festival – Best International Documentary (2022)
BC Environmental Film Festival – Finalist (2022)
tve Global Sustainability Film Awards – Top 4 Impact Documentary (2022)
Vancouver South Asian Film Festival – Best Documentary (2022)

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This year, VAFF 2023 FESTIVAL, screening programs in person and virtual will be organized into various series in order to better highlight the diverse content in our festival. These Series include Spotlight Series, Documentary Features Series, Narrative Features Series, Westcoast Shorts Series, Canadian Shorts Series, International Short Series, Animation Series, VAFF Industry Insight Series and Special Events.

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We are grateful to live and work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We thank the First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities that have cared for Turtle Island since time immemorial. With this acknowledgment, we remind ourselves of discriminatory, racist and colonial practices that have and continue to create barriers for Indigenous peoples and communities across Turtle Island.

HA NII TOKXW: Our Food Table

Presented as Part Of V1 – Canadian Documentary Shorts (4)

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